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GCP21 calls for regional action to stem Cassava Mosaic Disease outbreak in Southeast Asia

GCP21 calls for regional action to stem Cassava Mosaic Disease outbreak in Southeast Asia

ByStuart Smyth

The Global Cassava Partnerships for the 21st Century (GCP21) has called for urgent regional approach to halt the spread of cassava mosaic disease (CMD) that is threatening cassava production in Southeast Asia—a region that accounts for about 55 million tons of cassava and host billions of dollars in cassava investment.

CIAT and national partners through extensive field surveys and…

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AfDB to invest $120m to boost cassava, others in Africa

AfDB to invest $120m to boost cassava, others in Africa

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Tuesday said it would invest $120 million in the next 2-3 years to boost the production and transformation of cassava and eight other commodities on the continent.

The Director for Agriculture at AfDB, Dr Martin Fregene, who said this at the fourth International conference on cassava organized by the Global Cassava Partnerships for the 21st Century, GCP21, in…

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Africa needs 30 tonnes per hectare of cassava by 2050 says IITA

Africa needs 30 tonnes per hectare of cassava by 2050 says IITA

The Director, Global Cassava Partnership (GCP21) of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Dr Claude Fauguet on Tuesday said Africa needed 30 tonnes per hectare of cassava by 2050 from the current nine tonnes per hectare.

Speaking at a news conference in Lagos to announce the 4th International Cassava Conference, the Director said comparatively that Africa currently produced…

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GCP12 holds world press conference, cassava exhibition in Lagos

GCP12 holds world press conference, cassava exhibition in Lagos

The Global Cassava Partnership for the 21st (GCP21) century will on 17 April 2018 hold a world press conference to announce the fourth International Cassava Conference billed to take place in Cotonou, Benin in 11-15 June 2018.

Part of the press conference will be exhibition of cassava products including cassava bread, cassava ethanol, cassava snacks, cassava flour, cassava starch, which is used…

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