by CIAT Comunicaciones | Jan 23, 2020
Maria Elker Montoya, a co-author of the study, works with suspended cassava plants in an aeroponics system used for the research. (Credit: CIAT) Scientists tossed aside the shovel and studied cassava roots as they grew in real time, suspended in the air. The...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Nov 29, 2019
In Southeast Asia (SEA) cassava is both a food crop and an industrial crop. This gives the plant, which is used for its roots, the distinction of being both a key to food security and a source of income to the two million smallholder farmers who produce it across the...
by Sylvia Pineda | Aug 1, 2019
Within the framework of the project on scaling flash drying technology, financed by CGIAR’s research program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB), CIAT through the cassava program will hold the workshop “Low-cost flash dryer for starch and cassava flour at...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | Dec 11, 2018
Cassava stem traders unload trucks in Eastern Cambodia. Photo: CIAT Cross-posted from the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) If you have a garden, you probably buy seeds from the store, or maybe even swap some varieties with your friends or...
by Maria Fernanda Mejia | Oct 25, 2018
Tackling Cassava Mosaic Disease in Southeast Asia ; In December 2015, a journal publication reported evidence of Sri Lankan cassava mosaic virus (SLCMV) in a single plantation in Ratanakiri province in northeast Cambodia. This was the first time that Cassava Mosaic...