Yields of key cassava crop not keeping pace with Africa population growth: TRFN | Top News | Reuters

Yields of key cassava crop not keeping pace with Africa population growth: TRFN | Top News | Reuters: "Yields of cassava, a key crop feeding millions of people across Africa, are not keeping pace with population growth despite its tolerance for climate change, a leading scientist said.

More than half the world's cassava, a high-energy root crop, is grown in sub-Saharan Africa, where it is often the cheapest source of calories for poor people, said Clair Hershey, programme leader at the Colombia-based International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT).

"More than 200 million people rely on cassava as a basic food crop," he said during a lecture at the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) late on Monday."



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