Across various West African countries, gari, a popular food made from cassava, has garnered a reputation for potentially causing impaired vision. Cyanide content in cassava and gari: Cassava, the ...

ONE of the staple foods of the people of the rain forest belt of West Africa is gari, a starchy food prepared from the root of the cassava plant (Manihot utilissima). The traditional preparation of ...

When Bill Gates called flashy food start-up Hampton Creek the “future of food,” he was presumably referring to products such as the company’s much-hyped vegan mayonnaise. The mayo, the company argues, ...

With the changing weather patterns, maize diseases and the high cost of production, cassava could just be the answer to Kenya's food insecurity“For me, cassava represents food, a source of income and ...

The diversification agenda of the Federal Government has gone awry with the Indian gari import, despite that Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy, is also the world’s largest producer of cassava from ...

The prices of cassava will continue to rise as more firms compete to acquire the food item for ethanol production and other industrial uses. This imbalance is said to be driving prices of garri and ...

The Kwara State Government on Wednesday handed over industrial cassava flour (garri) processing machines to residents of Owode Oja in Asa Local Government Area to scale up production, create jobs, ...

The price of garri, a staple food in most Nigerian households, has dropped by about 22%in many markets in Enugu. A survey by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent in the city on Friday shows ...