Cassava spoils easily after it is harvested. A traditional way to store cassava in West Africa is to dry fresh cassava chips in the hot sun. The chips (called "alibo" in Nigeria) keep for a year.
Many cassava varieties are bitter, or toxic and must be processed before they can be eaten. A few varieties are free of cyanide and can be eaten boiled, or even raw!
Gari, or garri is cassava that has been grated, fermented and toasted, or "fried" on a steel pan on a hot wood fire. Here we see gari being toasted in Southwestern Nigeria.
It is a life changing low cost small is beautiful technology to help landless communites affected by flooding and massive river bank erosion in NW Bangladesh.
This participatory video was filmed, produced, and directed by a group of 12 farmers and community members from the villages of Mpulula, Malaswa, Kapalula, and Gwauya, Malawi.
This participatory video titled “We Can†was filmed, produced, and directed by a group of 11 farmers and community members from Damolgo and Sekoti, Ghana.
19 farmers in North Alego, Kenya spent 6 days together in a small local church to make this film together.The film presents diverse farming systems reflective of the region and many of the challeng
