How to pronounce “cassava” in English

Cassava, potatoes.

It's a cassava or an improved sweet potato.

So we take cassava leaves, which are often served as a local food in the form of a sombe, which

It is a very low-nutrient-- cassava's like a yam, a yellow yam.

And then we smother it in a cassava chimichurri sauce.

So you see young children who eat a lot of cassava actually tend to be more malnourished, even though they're getting a lot of calories--

and so you have some fairly lousy food like Cassava which is good for storage but not much else that 800 million people live on.

So a lot of people have a lot of incentive to grow cassava because it will come in no matter what.

quite poisonous unless they're processed in some way that makes them safe so cassava root is a good example of a

And so if we can give people the information they need on other crops that will do as well as cassava but will have much more nutritional benefit

I farm a little of sorghum to feed my family, and cassava.

And then when you go further south-- starting off with Ghana, kind of going all the way to Angola-- it's more about root crops, so tropical yams, cassava,

So we've worked with a lot of women, for example, to start growing cowpeas or cassava and different kinds of orange yams, which

Hundreds of millions of people in the world subsist on cassava.

So genetic engineers have decided to engineer all the stuff you need to live on into cassava -- vitamin A, micronutrients, protein -- and

I mean, there's sorghum and some people depend on cassava and some people depend on bananas.