Africa: USAID funds $5.3m cassava scheme

A $5.3m United States Agency for International Development funded project in sub-Saharan Africa is seeking to further raise cassava production on farmers' field by 30 per cent in seven African countries. The project with the theme: “Unleashing the Power of Cassava in response to the food price crisis (UPoCA),” aims to maximize the utilization of cassava to address food price crisis in Nigeria, DR Congo, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and Tanzania.