Sweet potatoes are a revered staple for most important meals in African American life. No plate of soul food is complete without the buttery liquid from candied sweet potatoes flowing into the juice ...

It was a drug produced in Nottingham in the United Kingdom that led us on a journey to South Africa to visit muthi markets, archives, herbariums and nature reserves. We spoke with traders, healers, ...

IBADAN, Nigeria (Reuters) - Stacks of hairy yams line a market in Ibadan, where traders haggle over quality and price before loading them into cars for the last mile to Nigerian consumers. Nearby, a ...

Sweet potatoes are often called yams, but they are actually two completely different vegetables. Yams are tubers with rough, brown skin that are grown in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. Sweet ...

YAM-GROWING countries in West Africa contributed 90.6% of the global production in 2013, the Director of West Africa IITA Research for Development, Robert Asiedu, has disclosed. He spoke in Zaria at a ...

Wrapping yam seeds in biodegradable paper made from a mixture of unusable parts of banana plants and recycled cardboard boxes sharply increased yam size and yields in field tests conducted in Benin, ...

November means turkey, mashed potatoes and bright orange candied yams or, depending on who you ask, candied sweet potatoes. While some may use sweet potato and yam interchangeably, botanically ...