When I first encountered a cassava plant, it was love at first sight, and over the years, my affection for this graceful and highly useful perennial has only increased. Inside the US, cassava is ...

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 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 ...

The normal way to study cassava roots is digging up the plant. Unfortunately, that tends to kill the plant, causing serious complications for researchers who are interested in learning more about how ...

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 ...

When he started growing cassava he produced 1,500 pounds a year it is now reduced to around 600 pounds a year for his customer base.Tom Wadson, who has been growing cassava for 25 years, produces ...

When Gabre and Deborah Swan describe their cassava pie as a labour of love, they aren’t kidding. They grow the cassava root themselves, organically. That involves tending it for two years before they ...