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Cassava Quick Facts
Cassava on Wikipedia - This website discusses the origins, uses and problems associated with the cassava plant, including cassava pests. Also contains information on cassava’s scientific classification and external links.
Nutritional implications of projects giving high priority to the production of staples of low nutritive quality: The Case for Cassava (Manihot esculenta, Crantz) in the Humid Tropics of West Africa - an article in the Food and Nutrition Bulletin of the United Nations University. The policy paper discusses cassava’s importance as a primary food source; cassava’s nutritional value, toxicity problems, historical background and problems associated with dependency on cassava.
Indies Cassava Chips - an Indonesian company that produces Cassava Chips, much like potato chips, and sells them around the world. Also has a page about what cassava is and different methods of preparation.
Cassava: Latin Rhythms - A Toronto-based Latin salsa band that has adopted the Cassava name. Has links to a few pages about what the plant cassava is.
Cassava, Africa's Food Security Crop – an article on Africa dependency on cassava, from the World Bank’s Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research Newsletter. Includes basic information on cassava, in addition to information about several organizations progress on genetically modifying and altering the make up of cassava. A quote from this page puts cassava into perspective:
" Alfred Dixon, a cassava breeder at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Ibadan, Nigeria says ‘Cassava is to the African peasant farmers what rice is to the Asian farmers, or what wheat and potato are to the European farmers.’” Dixon and the IITA are participants in the BioCassava Plus Project and will be doing field trials of the genetically enhanced cassava project. Also includes a poem written about cassava.Researchers Get To The Root Of Cassava’s Cyanide-Producing Abilities - an archived copy of an article on a past project of Dr. Richard Sayre. During this project, Dr. Sayre and another colleague working on the BioCassava Plus Project created cyanide free cassava plants. This was an important step leading up to the BioCassava Plus Project because it allows for cassava plants to be eaten without the cleansing process and solves cyanide-poisoning problems.
Cassava Processing - a very extensive article about cultivating, processing, and cooking cassava from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Also includes information about quality control of cassava, the world production and trade of cassava and the future development of cassava.
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