Cassava: A plant for all times

If you look across a field in Nigeria, you might see hundreds of midsize trees with green leaves and strange roots being dug up. This tree-looking plant is called cassava. Cassava is the third most important source of calories in the world, behind rice and corn. As...

Science says: Change our food system now

As the world’s population surges towards 10 billion by 2050, calls for intensification of agriculture to produce more food on less land are growing louder. However, policies framed around this narrow view of food security are heavily weighted toward dependency on just...