The Current Climate

• Climate change and conflict are disrupting our food systems like never before!
• This has created a vast market for indigenous African alternatives, like cassava. 
• Cassava is particularly remarkable because it has incredible climate-resilient, health, and taste properties. 

  Problem

• Despite cassava’s amazing benefits, the tuber spoils only 3 days after harvest, with over 50% of the global annual harvest lost on average. Consequently, a majority of the 20 million cassava farmers in the world today, 75% of whom are women, live in extreme poverty — on under a dollar a day per capita income.

  Our Innovation

• At CassVita, we have invented a simple process for increasing the shelf-life of cassava from 3 days to 18 months. With our technology, farmers lose 0% of their harvest and are able to increase their incomes.