Cassava international trade, prices. Current research in biotechnology.

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

Study of the role of cassava food crop in the agricultural economy of Java, Indonesia - considers the economic implications of increasing cassava production by examining food production systems, agricultural production costs, food consumption, price policy aspects of food policy, agricultural marketing, and agricultural price; covers trade in starch and gaplek. Graphs, maps, references, statistical tables.

Cassava, also known as tapioca or manioc, is one of the major root crops in more than 100 countries of the humid tropics and sub-tropics. This book presents topical research in the study of the farming, uses and economic impact of cassava. Topics discussed include potential uses of cassava wastewater in biotechnological processes; cassava starch and flour in the production of bio-ethanol, bio-plastics, acetone-butanol, dextrin, sugar syrups and organic acids and cassava starch as a biodegradable polymer material.

The book offers a rich toolkit of relevant, adoptable ecosystem-based practices that can help the world's 500 million smallholder farm families achieve higher productivity, profitability and resource-use efficiency while enhancing natural capital.