The Cassava Transformation: Africa's Best-Kept Secret

By F. Nweke, D. Spencer, J. Lynam. 2001

436 citations recorded by the source corpus.

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/ebf3a2aba9bd4e8ed83616d5ba884e50103c702e

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Plant Science

David P. Hughes

Citations in the corpus

Emerging infectious diseases of crop plants in developing countries: impact on agriculture and socio-economic consequences (2010, background): “Another reason for cassava’s importance is that it can remain in the soil untended for up to 2 years without losing its nutritional properties, an important property in the event of temporary civil strife (Nweke et al. 2002).”
New challenges in the cassava transformation in Nigeria and Ghana (2004, background): “Farmers who planted the TMS varieties as a cash crop for urban consumption sometimes suspended cassava planting because they could not find sufficient hired labor to harvest and process earlier planted fields (Nweke et al. 2002).”
Regional trade, government policy and food security: Recent evidence from Zambia (2009, background): “Issues of taste and nutritional quality likewise affect prospects for consumer substitution among food staples (Nweke et al., 2002).”
Countries with Rapid Population Growth and Resource Constraints: Issues of Food, Agriculture, and Development (2005, background): “I would add that some tropical root crops—for example, cassava—are certainly staples and have benefited from genetic improvements (see Nweke et al. 2002).”
Processing Techniques to Reduce Toxicity and Antinutrients of Cassava for Use as a Staple Food (2009, background): “Steam distillation Meuser and Smolnick (1980) showed that steam distillation of fresh cassava pulp resulted in total cyanogen removal for a minimum distillate volume of 100 mL (assumed to be normalized to 1 kg).”
Deep Learning for Image-Based Cassava Disease Detection (2017, background): “Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is the most widely grown root crop in the world and a major source of calories for roughly two out of every five Africans (Nweke et al., 2002).”
Successes in African agriculture: Results of an expert survey (2004, background): “Sustained breeding efforts by NARs across Africa, backstopped by steady inflow of improved material from IITA, have resulted in a continuous diffusion of improved cassava varieties over the past three decades (Manyong et al., 2000; Nweke et al., 2002).”