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Title

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

Author

Nweke, Felix I.

Publication

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2002], ©2002.

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Additional Authors

• Lynam, John K.
• Spencer, Dunstan S. C.

Description

xix, 273 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map; 23 cm

Subject

• COSCA (Project)
• Cassava > Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-257) and index.

Contents

• 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 Overview. Varieties 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 Products. Cassava 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 Study. Expanding 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-Yielding TMS Varieties. The Diffusion of the TMS Varieties. Post-Harvest Issues: Food Preparation and Mechanized Processing. Gender Surprises. New Uses for Cassava. Policy Implications. App. 1. Methods of the COSCA Study -- App. 2. List of COSCA Collaborators -- App. 3. List of COSCA Reports -- App. 4. Demand Function Specifications.

ISBN

087013602X (alk. paper)

LCCN

2001005255

OCLC

• ocm47863173
• SCSB-4225521

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries