A better meal than maize-meal
SAMFYA: As food prices soar and stocks continue to fall, Zambians are finding it increasingly difficult to depend on maize and are being urged to look at a cheaper, drought- and pest-resistant alternative that already puts food on the table in the north of the country.
Cassava meal for sale © Nebert Mulenga/IRIN
“Even if there is no [maize-meal], I can't suffer. I am able to eat my cassava", said Ruth Chalwe, a small-scale farmer in the Samfya district of Luapula Province in northern Zambia.
“I sell a 25kg bag [of cassava-meal] for 70,000 Kwacha [about US$14], or 2,500 Kwacha [US$0.40] per plate ... [so I] also make something small to buy anything that I want - things like soap, salt, cooking oil,” she said.
