Research shows how to grow more cassava, one of the world's key food crops
- Written by Stephen P. Long, Professor of Crop Sciences and Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Cassava makes up nearly 50 percent of the diet in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, where populations are projected to increase by more than 120 percent in the next 30 years. CIAT International Center for Tropical Agriculture, CC BY-NC-SAWhat root vegetable is toxic eaten raw but a hunger quencher when cooked, and provides both tapioca flour and the...
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