The three staple crops dominating modern diets – corn, rice and wheat – are familiar to Americans. However, fourth place is held by a dark horse: cassava. Over the course of millennia, Indigenous ...

Cassava is a vital staple crop for millions in tropical regions; however, its production is increasingly compromised by several viral diseases, notably Cassava Mosaic Disease (CMD) and Cassava Brown ...

Daniel Danino is the CEO and founder of Volta Metals, an international group focused on energy, industry and trading in EMEA. Africa is a continent rich in natural resources, including fertile soil ...

Cassava produces about ten times more carbohydrates than most cereals per unit area, and are ideal for production in marginal and drought prone areas, the Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research ...

The International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) has invented a method of tackling weeds on cassava farms and contamination in grains, writes CHIDINMA EWUNONU-ALUKO In its research ...

Plant infection rates in some parts of Southeast Asia — where cassava is a major cash crop — are now as high as 90%, according to Cuellar, and some farmers’ yields have dropped by more than half as ...

Kenyans love their maize and wheat products. Every meal of protein is accompanied by either ugali or chapati. But herein lies the problem. Owing to a number of factors, the two staple foods cannot ...