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Nigerian farmers are getting cleaner seed yams that promise better harvests in the season ahead, thanks to the healthy seed yam producng technique by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture.

The proliferation of deadly Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD) and resistant to the equally devastating Cassava Mosaic Disease (CMD) is a threat to food security and well-being of farmers in East Africa, the International Institute of Tropical Agricul…

These diseases represent the greatest threat to food security in the region as cassava is Africa’s second most important food crop after maize and provides more than half of the dietary calories for over half of the total rural and urban population i…

Around the small village of Fuoni, just outside Zanzibar City, are fields of okra, tomatoes and peppers. These vegetable plots are not just the result of one season’s farming.

Four new high-yielding cassava varieties that are tolerant to the deadly Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD) and resistant to the equally devastating Cassava Mosaic Disease (CMD), were last week officially released in Tanzania, providing a ray of hope …