Melissa Leong

When you think about a post-swim snack at the local pool, you'd be forgiven for thinking ham and cheese toasties, finger buns and red frogs before cassava fries, arepas and Latin tunes.

Sukarno

Which other people in this world stop up holes in their sidewalks with cassava, brothers and sisters? Only Indonesia itself, on account of the abundance of its food.

Indonesian Statesman

Cassava is a food source; know it's commonly eaten in tropical countries.

Edible Root

Raw cassava can be toxic due to cyanide; it must be cooked or processed correctly.

Preparation Required

Cassava root is the raw material for tapioca, a thickening agent in cooking.

Tapioca Source

Cassava is popular for gluten-free diets as it naturally contains no gluten.

Gluten-Free

Cassava flour is used in various recipes, from bread to desserts.

Versatile Starch

Since it's allergy-friendly, cassava starch is an alternative for those with food sensitivities.

Allergy-Friendly

 Disgraceful. Disgraceful. They need it, and we're not giving it to them. And why? Genetically engineered food. We don't want to encourage people to eat that rotten stuff, like cassava for instance. Cassava's something that half a billion people eat. It's kind of like a potato. It's just a bunch of calories. It sucks.

The danger of science...

 Uh-hmm. This is garri. I have to look through your garri to make sure. Garri is a form of the cassava and when it comes in bundles like this, we have people that stick other items, so that's what I'm doing now, just inspecting his garri. You said you had garri, you have dried fish.

Inspecting Agricultural...

 it and we're not giving it to them and why genetically engineered food we don't want to encourage people to eat that rotten stuff like cassava for instance because I was something that half a billion people eat it's kind of like a potato it's just a bunch of calories it

 So that's nearly a billion people relying on this plant for their daily calories. If a small-scale family farmer has enough cassava, she can feed her family and she can sell it at the market for important things like school fees, medical expenses and savings.

How we're using DNA tech...

 leave it in this she's been sitting in this little cage not being able to stand upright for two weeks just been given like cassava roots bananas imagine two weeks cramped in this tiny box without even being able to stand the forest you

Saving a Baby Orangutan,...

 under the name of "manioc." In fact, it's grown all over the world -- yucca, tapioca, manioc, cassava, it's all the same thing -- a very starchy root vegetable. And you can make a very thick, sticky porridge out of it,

Amy Smith: Simple...

 infrared so anything very far we might not be able to see the trip from there again see what you get look cuts I just saw the eyes and definitely is out of range anyhow to be it look to the cassava cut

Safari Live - Day 269 PIPE...

 find bread much more handy to use than rice or cassava. So bread has become from a main staple, a source of calories associated with obesity and also a source of modernity, of modern life.

Louise Fresco on feeding...

 cassava is a poverty fighter if a small-scale family farmer has healthy cassava they can feed their family and have enough to sell at market from important things like school fees

How we plan to beat...

 demarcate but to defend it like now there is an issue that aku mori is having some cubs with a cassava and that is a sign that Okamura is a much wad and is a protective adult