Abstract

Population growth in the Global South is driving a significantly increasing demand for cassava. To match this demand, cassava production needs to grow alongside a proportionate increase in the use of processing wastes from cassava. This chapter discusses the socioeconomic impacts of waste from cassava processing due to the increasing cassava production vis-a-vis waste generation, collection, and management within the cassava value chain as well as their ramifications and mechanisms on socioeconomic development. The potential and actual value of waste from cassava processing can be established through value addition despite the socioeconomic and technological challenges connected to their processing. Nonetheless, there is a need for increased cassava processors and farmers' awareness of relevant technologies. Moreover, stakeholders have recognized the need to control cassava processing waste even though they know the economic risk involved, such as the cost of needed technologies. This also explains the nonutilization and indiscriminate disposal of cassava waste instead of converting it to usable forms or selling the waste as an additional source of income through livelihood diversification. This calls for sustainable cassava processing and a conscious move away from the current practice of nonprocessing of waste in the cassava value chain.

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