Caterpillar gods and bridal gifts: How Indigenous culture has shaped crop diversity
A research collaboration between The University of Warwick, the Smithsonian Institution and Embrapa (Brazilian agricultural ...
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CASSAVA:‘THE CINDERELLA OF THE POOR’
Although the Veddas were mainly hunters/gatherers at that time, their real food security came from their chenas (swidden fields): and their key crop for food security was manioc (cassava). Since this ...
Smithsonian Magazine8d
Smithsonian Scientists Discover That Traditional Agricultural Practices in the Amazon Helped Yield an Enduring Crop Clone
Genetic analyses and interviews with Indigenous farmers revealed that most manioc crops resemble each other across time and ...
The Star8d
Lao government seeks larger niche in global cassava market
VIENTIANE: The government plans to increase crop yields, upgrade processing plants, and expand the export market with a view to becoming a major player in the global cassava trade. This was the ...
The Associated Press on MSN16d
As warming climate hammers coffee crops, this rare bean may someday be your brew
Earth's warming climate is causing problems for big coffee producers everywhere and some are looking to a rarely cultivated ...
The Hindu3d
Kani tribals exposed to high-yielding tuber varieties to be cultivated in Western Ghats
Planting materials of improved varieties of tuber crops viz., Sree Pavithra and Sree Reksha of cassava; Sree Arun, Sree Kanaka, Bhu Sona and Bhu Krishna of sweet potato; Gajendra of elephant foot ...
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End looms for Cassava's simufilam in Alzheimer's disease
Cassava Sciences' troubled development of ... a different mechanism to the current crop of amyloid-targeting Alzheimer's therapies – failed to deliver a statistically significant improvement ...