Trends in production and use; Factors influencing the use of cassava; Potential yields of cassava; Scenarios of cassava output and use in 2000.

Overview; Trends and prospects for cassava in the third world; Delphi survey for the assessment of potential yields of cassava in the third world; Economics of cassava in Africa; The evaluation of cassava consumption in Latin America; The meat of the mattter; cassava's potential as a feed source in tropical latin America; Trends and prospects for cassava in India; Trends and prospects for cassava in Indonesia Faisal kasryno; Trends and prospects for cassava in Thailand; Trends and prospects for cassava in Nigeria; Trends and prospects for cassava in Zaire.

Synthesizes a significant amount of data and information on roots and tubers in an effort to provide a clearer vision of their past, present, and future roles in the food systems of developing countries. How the production and use of these commodities have changed and will continue to change over time are all the more important to understand because of the contribution they make to the diets and income-generating activities of the rural and urban poor in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Provides a fuller understanding of the prospects of roots and tubers for food, feed, and other uses in developing countries.

Cassava is Africa's second most important food crop. The cassava transformation that is now underway in West Africa is fueled by new high yielding TMS varieties that have transformed cassava from a low-yielding, famine-reserve crop to a high-yielding cash crop for both rural and urban consumers. The book highlights the role of cassava as a "poverty fighter" by increasing cassava productivity and driving down the cost of cassava in rural and urban diets.