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Good news for cassava

[DRC] A woman sells cassava cake at Yasira Market. [Date picture taken: May 2006] Hugo Rami/IRIN
A woman sells cassava cake at Yasira Market in DR Congo
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    “After years of massive crop losses caused by a devastating virus,” the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports good news for cassava in the Great Lakes region of Africa: New disease-free varieties are helping increase crop yields. “The improved crop now benefits a total of some 1.65 million people,” says FAO.

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