Contents
Foreword by Werner Kiene
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Yam Primer
Chapter 2. Yam Production Contexts in Nigeria and Ghana
Chapter 3. High Labor Cost in Yam Production
Chapter 4. Yam Seed Technologies
Chapter 5. The Challenge of Nematodes in the Yam Food Sector
Chapter 6. Yam Crop Improvement Research
Chapter 7. Prospects and Impediments to Difffusion of Hybrid Yams in Nigeria
Chapter 8. Periphery Situation of Yam in National Food Policy Programs
Chapter 9. Yam Stereotype as a Man’s Crop
Chapter 10. Yam Postharvest Matters
Chapter 11. Trade in West African Yam
Chapter 12. Fuels of Yam Consumption in West Africa
Chapter 13. Yam in the Igbo Cultural Rite of Marriage
Chapter 14. Synthesis
Appendix 1. Participants in Activities that Contributed Information Reported in this Book
Appendix 2. List of Hybrid Yams Released to Farmers in Nigeria
Notes
References
Index
