Tag: Cassava
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CASSAVA IN YOUR BREAD
The people of Togo eat a lot of bread. But to make bread you need wheat. And Togo doesn’t grow much wheat. It has to import it and Russia is one of the major suppliers. So the folks at the Institut Togolais de Recherche Agronomique (ITRA) and the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture taught the folks in the village of Atti-Apedokoe how to use flour made out of cassava. Farmers in Togo grow a lot of cassava so its a crop they know. ITRA suggested they try some improved varieties of…
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MORAG, THE QUEEN OF CASSAVA
The last time I saw Morag Ferguson I was shoving hummus into my mouth and washing it down with arak. It’s been 25 years since Morag and I worked in Syria. The times have changed, but not Morag. I caught up with Morag at her home for the past 15 years – Nairobi, Kenya. Morag now works for the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture and she’s doing some mighty fascinating work with cassava. Morag took my Crop Trust colleague, Benjamin Kilian, and me, out to her second home at KEPHIS, which…
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