Cassava

Nigeria is the world's largest producer of cassava.

Cassava is a drought-tolerant crop and consequently a major staple food for millions of people.

Cassava can be toxic.

This cassava is hard to peel.

In the Caribbean, many dishes have bananas or cassava.

I know some things about reading when it comes to Filipinos. When many Filipinos read, especially the elite, they read in English, although they commonly speak an indigenous language every day. The Philippines is highly aural-oral when it comes to the indigenous language. There are, nevertheless, some comics and other literature in Tagalog for the masses. Many Filipinos do not really want to read in English, as maybe it does not attract them, so they seldom read, but instead watch television, videos, or cinema, most commonly in the indigenous language. I suspect that Roman letters do not attract some Filipinos. Tagalog is no longer written in the ancient Baybayin script, but the Unicode Standard conserves the syllabograms. Tagalog literature is not yet extensive, as is that of neighbouring Indonesia. English is like a fizzy pink soda, whilst Tagalog is like a yellow-brown cassava cake. (Some French have stated that Tagalog is more like a grey shark in the sea. But I could imagine some Italians equating Tagalog with squid ink spaghetti. Maybe Tagalog is like Spanish "jamón de pata negra," an expensive delicacy.)

There has been no general food distribution in these camps since mid May and people are surviving on cassava foraged in the surrounding bush.

Aflatoxin is a natural poison produced by a fungus that grows on maize, cassava, ground nuts, and other crops.

But AGRA is peppering small communities with cassava processing machines and encouraging women to sell flour.

Biofuels are gaining credibility as a supplement to petroleum fuel in some developed as well as developing countries. Biofuels are made from plant waste, including sugarcane and cassava. But some say prospects of using biofuel in large quantities in Nigeria is limited by some constraints regarding resources and costs.