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The Global Cassava Partnership for the 21st(GCP21)
century will on 17 April 2018 hold a world press conference to announce the fourth
International Cassava Conference billed to take place in Cotonou, Benin in
11-15 June 2018.
Part of the press conference will be exhibition of
cassava products including cassava bread, cassava ethanol, cassava snacks,
cassava flour, cassava starch,which is used for pharmaceutical products; and
traditional products such as cassava fufu, yellow gari among others.
The worldpress conference and exhibition are part of
activities earmarked to raise awareness on the potential of the root crop which
many term as ‘Africa’s white gold’.
The press conference in Lagos will have in
attendance Dr Claude Fauquet, Director of the GCP 21; Malachy Akoroda, Director
designate; Peter Kulakow, Cassava Breeder with the International Institute of
Tropical Agriculture; and Godwin Atser, Conference Communication Coordinator.
Founded in 2003, GCP21 is a not-for-profit
international alliance of 45 organizations and coordinated by Claude Fauquet
and Joe Tohme of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). It
aims to fill gaps in cassava research and development to unlock the potential
of cassava for food security and wealth creation for poor farmers.
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