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 ...

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 ...

Cambodian farmers are transforming cassava cultivation into a lucrative industry in a big boost to the rural economy and the agriculture sector. Once considered a subsistence crop, the lifeless, ...

Nov. 11 (UPI) --Cassava, a root crop that feeds more than 1 billion people around the world, could benefit from rising atmospheric CO2 levels. In a new study, published recently in the Journal of ...

Cassava is one of the major cash crops being produced in large quantities in Alkaleri Local Government Area of Bauchi State. The crop has remained a source of income to many farmers across communities ...

Mzee Raphael Owaka’s (pictured) love for cassava farming is simply impressive. While other farmers have invested in exotic crops, he has stuck to good old cassava in his farm in Nyabondo, Upper ...

Cassava (Manihot esculenta) combines a deep and extensive root system with a suite of physiological and molecular strategies that confer resilience to water deficit. Key adaptations include partial ...

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 ...

New research has identified a genetic mutation that confers resistance to cassava mosaic disease (CMD). Groundbreaking research led by Rebecca Bart, PhD, associate member, and Nigel Taylor, PhD, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A grower shows off his lush cassava garden. Stephen Wooding, CC BY-ND The three staple crops dominating modern diets – corn, rice ...