If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. When Arab traders introduced cassava — a nutty-flavoured ...

Cassava is more than just a staple food in Uganda—it is a lifeline. From feeding millions of households with daily meals to powering industries with starch and flour, the crop has become central to ...

Dr Yona Baguma, the Naro Director General, detailed the organisation’s extensive work in developing high-yielding, ...

Why climate vulnerability data could be the  compass for country’s resilient food system Entebbe, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | On ...

Nassar, N. and Miranda, R. (2025) Cassava Breeding by Unconventional Method Using Periclinal Chimera . Advances in Bioscience ...

ST. LOUIS, MO, August 7, 2012— An international research collaboration recently demonstrated progress in protecting cassava against cassava brown streak disease (CBSD), a serious virus disease, in a ...

A walk through the rural landscapes of Butebo, Bukedea, and Pallisa districts reveals an overwhelming presence of cassava gardens stretching across vast lands. For many households, cassava is more ...

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 ...

At just 17 years old, Patience Namuju is already changing lives in her community. She lives in Uganda's Karamoja region, known for its harsh, unpredictable weather and widespread food insecurity.

While a few states in the U.S. are debating mandatory labels for genetically modified foods, some African nations are considering a bigger question: Should farmers be allowed to plant genetically ...

A United Nations aid experiment to restrict food handouts and promote self-sufficiency in Uganda’s Karamoja region is being tested amid villagers’ complaints of shortages and a rise in street begging ...