International teams are working to bring the starchy root’s genetics into the 21st century and help food-insecure countries Cassava is a starchy, tuberous root first domesticated about 10,000 years ...

São Paulo – Cassava, manioc, or yuca. No matter the name, for a lifetime, this has been the research focus of Professor Nagib Nassar, an Egyptian-born botanist, geneticist, and post-graduate who came ...

In a wood-frame shack without walls on the western edges of this historic city, time stands still. Amid the constant noise of passing motorcycles and honking car horns, dozens of Haitians are busy at ...

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 ...

Researchers from half a dozen states in West Africa have joined together in a battle against what one expert calls a root crop "Ebola" – a viral disease that could wreck the region's staple food and ...

When I undertook a sociological survey, at the age of 23 years among the Veddas of Wellassa-Bintenne in 1950, I came to understand the role of cassava (manioc) in the lives of the poor. Although the ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has recognised cassava bread as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The proposal, ...

Once a staple that was frowned upon as “poor people” food, cassava bread has made a comeback thanks to the rising price of bread and since the COVID-19 pandemic. On the outskirts of Cap-Haïtien in ...

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Archaeologists excavating an ancient Maya village in El Salvador buried by a volcanic eruption 1,400 years ago has discovered an ancient field of manioc, the first evidence for cultivation of the ...

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