 The crop.
Cassava is an important staple food crop, with world output of more than 170 million tonnes a year. But a lack of research and development has contributed to highly uneven cultivation and processing methods, and cassava products that are often of poor quality.
The vision. Improvements in cassava production, processing and marketing has the potential to meet the food security needs of the estimated 500 million farmers who grow it, and to provide a key to rural industrial development and higher incomes for producers, processors and traders.
The strategy. The Global Cassava Development Strategy was drafted through a series of consultations with cassava "stakeholders" and is designed to make cassava more competitive in domestic and international markets. The strategy proposes to develop cassava-based industries through a synergy of national, regional and continental strategies and plans, supported by global efforts to identify and stimulate markets.
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Secretariats
Global Cassava