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 ...

Ojo's ambitions are straightforward -- increase Nigerian yam and cassava yields by 500 percent, fight hunger and raise her ...

Seeds, tubers, cuttings, oh my! There are many ways to propagate garden plants, and understanding them can be both fascinating and a bit daunting. Plant propagation falls into two main categories: ...

Susan Wanyela grew up seeing cassava being grown. Her parents grew the crop, so did neighbours. It was only natural that she took up cassava farming as well. She has been at it for more than three ...

Cassava is a root vegetable. It is the underground part of the cassava shrub, which has the Latin name Manihot esculenta. Like potatoes and yams, it is a tuber crop. Cassava roots have a similar shape ...

African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) and partners are set to inaugurate a cutting-edge cassava processing plant in Oyo State to transform cassava production and processing in Southwest, ...

Instead of dying of starvation households in drought-hit Ganze in Kilifi County have opted to embrace genetically modified cassava. Members of Mali Shambani Aggregation Group have warmed up to the new ...