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 ...

This release is available in French. BENIN (16 September 2010)—Farmers and crop scientists worldwide are engaged in an ambitious new effort to add 3,000 yam samples to international genebanks with the ...

Yams as seen today in West Africa descended from a forest species, a new study finds. The results challenge the hypothesis that domestication of sub-Saharan African plants mostly arose in tropical ...

Nadia Radzman receives funding from Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) and Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund for her project on the African yam bean. She is a research associate at the ...

Yam is a starchy vegetable tuber eaten for its many health benefits including sexual stimulation. The Dioscorea cayenensis is the yellow yam plant grown in West Africa and some parts of Asia. Rich in ...