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 ...

LITTLE ROCK — Most of us have a vague recollection of food plants from other parts of the world, but we quickly run out of specifics when we go to discuss them. Cassava, for example, is the most ...

Daniela Dutra Elliot prepares to saute chopped onions for her dish of bobo de camarao, a seafood stew made with cassava. Cassava is being grown by Hawaii farmers, though its availability is ...

The humble potato has potential to become an important source of beta-carotene and may lead to more nutritious cassava crops in developing countries, thanks to newly patented research from the Boyce ...

Scientists have determined how to fortify the cassava plant, a staple root crop in many developing countries, with enough vitamins, minerals and protein to provide the poor and malnourished with a day ...

Cassava is the fourth most important food crop in the world after maize, wheat and rice. Kenya in 2019 developed the National Roots and Tuber Strategy to guide the development and production of the ...

New research has highlighted a crop of inequality called cassava, which has starchy, tuberous roots that sustain more than 500 million people in sub-Saharan Africa, yet cassava has been largely ...

For all her life, Stella Afoyocan of Kisomere Village, Ngwedo Parish, Buliisa District, has grown cassava. It has been her staple food, and she uses it to feed her nine dependents. While her husband ...

Cassava is an essential energy source and contains nutrients, such as protein, calcium, and fiber. People should not eat it raw, as there is a risk of toxicity due to naturally occurring forms of ...

Staple foods of the rich world—wheat, barley, rice, maize and so on—have undergone long and sophisticated breeding programmes to increase their resistance to pests and pathogens, and to improve their ...