CASSAVA AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

Cassava is a staple food of over forty million people, half of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa. Cassava has gained its importance due to its ability to yield well especially under adverse environmental conditions. Cassava is a crop which is cultivated principally by women. The money gotten from the sale of cassava is mostly managed by women. It is often used in buying household needs and any spare is usually kept in njangi houses. The qualitative approach was used in collecting data through content analysis of books written from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century in Africa and Cameroon especially on the importance of cassava as a source of food security and a boost to empower women. Results show that even though female farmers are still using the traditional learning by doing approach, they are also now adopting mew innovational agricultural practices.