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Africa’s staple food cassava: turning toxic with cyanide due to carbon emissions
Cassava is touted by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as the savior of Africa, being a staple food of more than half a billion of the world’s poorest people. The crop augurs well in the continent because it is basically drought-resistant. But one of the most important foods on the planet is becoming increasingly toxic due to carbon [...]
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