Yams are considered one of the world’s most important crops. A starchy, nutrient-rich root vegetable of the genus Dioscorea, the yam thrives in a tropical belt across West Africa, with outliers in the ...

Soaring demand and extreme weather worsened by climate change have wiped out harvests of the popular purple yam.

A lecturer at the University of Ibadan, Dr Morufat Balogun, has invented a new agricultural technology to grow yam seedlings all seasons. Balogun, a senior lecturer, Crop Protection and Environmental ...

In major yam-producing areas such as West Africa and the Caribbean, the tuber is traditionally grown using sticks as scaffolds for vine growth, which are traditionally cut from the forest, causing ...