Cassava’s humble appearance, however, belies an impressive combination of productivity, toughness and diversity. Over the ...

A research team investigates how genome editing can be harnessed to accelerate cassava breeding and improve key traits.

[Collins Oduor, Standard] Cassava is a versatile crop that has several uses in the African context. It can withstand the harshest growing conditions and still yield considerably as compared to ...

When I undertook a sociological survey, at the age of 23 years among the Veddas of Wellassa-Bintenne in 1950, I came to ...

Kola says she never imagined that a crop like cassava, which was being grown for domestic consumption could change her economic fortunes. It has been a struggle growing the crop but now things are ...

Nigeria is the globe's biggest producer of cassava, or yuca. It could stand to earn billions from exports of flour, sorbitol, bubble tea, and ethanol. More from Big Business Nigeria is the globe's ...

Something is killing Ramadhani Juma’s cassava crop. “Maybe it’s too much water,” he says, fingering clusters of withered yellow leaves on a six-foot-high plant. “Or too much sun.” ...

“Everyone who visits my farm and sees the way I am farming and producing cassava — they get excited,” says Theogene Ntakarutimana, a farmer in Burundi who started growing cassava using methods ...

The crop is cultivated primarily by smallholder farmers, however its production is affected by two common viral diseases: the cassava mosaic and brown streak disease. These can be transmitted plant to ...