The cassava transformation : Africa's best-kept secret / Felix I. Nweke, Dunstan S.C. Spencer, John K. Lynam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nweke, Felix I.

Contributor:

Lynam, John K.

Spencer, Dunstan S. C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cassava--Africa.

Cassava.

COSCA (Project).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Cassava is Africa's ""poverty fighter"" and second most important food crop. This book discusses Cassava's real role and traces research over the past 65 years. The ""Cassava transformation"" that is now underway in Africa has changed this traditional, reserve crop to a high-yield cash crop. However, Cassava is being neglected by governments and donor agencies because of myths and half-truths about its nutritional value and role in farm systems.

Contents:

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; 1. Cassava and Africa's Food Crisis; Why Cassava?; Cassava: Introduction and Diffusion in Africa; The Cassava Transformation; The Collaborative Study of Cassava in Africa (COSCA); Plan of This Book; 2. Myths and Half-Truths; Cassava as a Subsistence Crop; Cassava as a Soil Nutrient-Depleting Crop; Cassava as a Women's Crop; Cassava as a Lethal Food; Cassava as a Nutritionally Deficient Food; 3. Cassava's Multiple Roles; Famine-Reserve Crop; Rural Food Staple; Cash Crop and Urban Food Staple; Industrial Raw Material; Livestock Feed

4. Production OverviewVarieties Grown; Pests and Disease; Area Cultivated; Yield; Production; 5. Genetic Research and the TMS Revolution; Farmer-Led Research; Government Research; Insights and Research Challenges; 6. Agronomic Practices; Three Types of Fallow Systems; Cassava Planting; Cassava Production; Cassava Harvesting; 7. Diffusion of TMS Varieties; TMS Diffusion in Nigeria; The Delayed Diffusion of the TMS Varieties in Ghana; TMS Diffusion in Uganda; 8. The Preparation of Five Cassava Products; Fresh Cassava Roots; Dried Cassava Roots; Pasty Cassava Products

Granulated Cassava ProductsCassava Leaves; Lessons and Challenges; 9. Mechanized Processing; Types of Cassava Processing Machines; The Rise and Fall of Private Large-Scale Processing; Nigeria: Cassava Processing Research and Development; Lessons and Challenges; 10. Gender Surprises; Cassava Production; Access to Improved Technologies by Men and Women; Cassava Processing and Marketing; Gender Surprises: Policy Implications; 11. Consumption; Cassava Consumption Pattern; Pre- and Post-Harvest Losses; Food Expenditure Patterns; Income Elasticity of Demand

12. New Uses for Cassava: A Nigerian Case StudyExpanding the Use of Cassava in the Livestock Industry; Expanding the Use of Cassava in Food Manufacturing; Expanding the Use of Cassava Starch as an Industrial Raw Material; Beer Malt: A New Use for Dried Cassava Roots; Developing a Cassava-Based Ethanol Industry; 13. The Cassava Transformation: Synthesis; Cassava and Africa's Food Crisis; Genetic Research and the High-Yeielding TMS Varieties; The Diffusion of the TMS Varieties; Post-Harvest Issues: Food Preparation and Mechanized Processing; Gender Surprises; New Uses for Cassava

Policy ImplicationsAppendix 1: Methods of the COSCA Study; The Study Team; Sampling Procedures; Survey Instruments; Logistics and Supervision; Data Processing; Appendix 2: List of COSCA Collaborators; Appendix 3: List of COSCA Reports; Working Papers; Ph.D. Dissertations; Appendix 4: Demand Function Specifications; Variable Description and Construction; Notes; References; About the Authors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-60917-283-3

OCLC:

774285352