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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......
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Yields of key cassava crop not keeping pace with Africa population growth: TRFN
Posted by Reuters: Chris Arsenault on March 3rd, 2015
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