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Vitamin A cassava for better nutrition in Nigeria

This blog post is a collaboration between IITA, Harvest Plus and ONE.

Girl enjoys yellow cassava. Photo: CIAT

Nigeria officially released three Vitamin A cassava varieties on December 7th, 2011. This is huge news. It’s not every day that a new variety of cassava, a staple root crop in much of Africa, (let alone three!) sets the stage for helping more thousands of poor farming families beat malnutrition.

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