Guinea-Bissau: Diversification from cashew nuts essential

“Cashew nuts are very important! They enable us to eat and earn cash to buy other things,” said Bide Man, a farmer in northern Guinea Bissau. “We farm many things, but nothing helps us like the cashew”. Farmers have even stopped growing the national staple food, rice, in favour of the mighty cashew and now the country doesn’t grow enough rice to feed itself.