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Motret daun ketela
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Africa: Climate Change Could Pose a Major Risk to Cassava in Africa - Study Sets Out What Can Be Done Now: [The Conversation Africa] Cassava is a starchy, tuberous root, introduced to sub-Saharan Africa by Portuguese traders centuries ago. It is a nutrition lifeboat for over 800 million people worldwide. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TRZW4Z #ClimateChange #Cassava #Africa #FoodSecurity #Sustainability

Cassava may not be Uganda’s main staple, but in many villages it’s the most edible and reliable food together with pumpkin. If we secure our land, we will dedicate part of it to growing cassava and pumpkin for community food security, especially supporting vulnerable and disabled members. Growing food is growing dignity 🌱
#FoodSecurity #Cassava #Pumpkin #CommunityFarming #YouthLed #DisabilityInclusion https://www.gofundme.com/f/buying-land-eco-youths-network-uganda

After killing the seeds the first time, second attempt has seen success: Manihot esculenta, or Cassava is now well established in the greenhouse!
A shockingly fast growing plant (these are hardly a month old if that) and rather ornamental with those strange leaves, Cassava is a South American native that has established quite a widespread usage worldwide for food. Thick starchy roots are prepared in all sorts of ways from boiled and fried as a potato-like vegetable to ground into flour or processed into that strangely textured but popular food, tapioca.
What’s rather surprising about this though, is that this is not a plant you can safely eat normally; it must be soaked or heavily boiled, because otherwise it is packed full of cyanogens, hydrogen and nitrogen-rich chemicals that when ingested, break down to release hydrogen cyanide. Even just a small amount of raw cassava may well be lethal, so it begs the question: how did people figure out that this toxic root could eventually be processed into food?

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#Manihot esculenta, commonly called #cassava, manioc, or yuca (among numerous regional names), is a woody shrub of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, native to South America, from Brazil, Paraguay and parts of the Andes. Althoug