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In Uganda, katogo is more than sun-dried cassava and memories. Ugandan food blogger Sophie Musoki delves into the many layers of memory stirred up by a dish of simple, humble katogo.
Majority of food plants have potential toxicity, can provide precursors and activators of otherwise innocuous substances that can be modified into target org.
As the price of wheat shoots up, Uganda's President Museveni urges people to eat cassava instead. ... like all things cassava, was known as food eaten by the poor.
In Uganda, the project is targeting about 16,000 cassava farmers and a number of intermediaries and users of cassava flour such as the food processors and paper industries.
Agriculture officials and researchers in Uganda have warned of a serious threat posed by a new strain of Cassava Mosaic Disease, saying it could wipe out the entire crop.
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The spike in food prices has upended daily routines and strained household budgets to the breaking point. Farmers warn that ...
Food and non-alcoholic drink costs rose 11%, as did cassava flour, used in bread and pastries. The starchy root is also boiled, fried or baked to eat. Have a confidential tip for our reporters?
MUKONO, Uganda Lynet Nalugo dug a cassava tuber out of her field and sliced it open. Inside its tan skin, the white flesh was riddled with necrotic brown lumps, as obviously diseased as any ...
I don't know if cassava remains branded as food for the poor in Uganda, but in Ghana, we have come a long way. Take gari. It shed its image as food for servants and the poor when it became the ...
In our series of letters from African journalists, Ghanaian Elizabeth Ohene considers the call of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni for people to eat the humble cassava as the price of wheat ...
In our series of letters from African journalists, Ghanaian Elizabeth Ohene considers the call of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni for people to eat the humble cassava as the price of wheat ...