By Mark Hillsdon Yams are considered one of the world’s most important crops. A starchy, nutrient-rich root vegetable of the ...

Nearby, a man navigates heavy traffic with a hand cart piled high with the tubers ... and livelihoods across West Africa. But growing conditions across the “yam belt” from Guinea to Cameroon ...

You see, yams feature heavily in the West African diet, but these tubers only grow in tropical and temperate climates. Sweet potatoes, on the other hand, grow just fine in American soil.

A tuber of yam was sold at between GH¢40.00 and GH¢70.00 depending on the size. Madam Martha Damesi, a yam seller told the GNA that the cost of yam kept increasing by the day in the market ...

Similarly, with an average cost of N1,894 per yam tuber, corps members could buy around ... ongoing corruption and government malfeasance in Africa. Using photos, text, and video dynamically ...