Hidden labour behind Nigeria’s garri: How women labour for hours to feed homes

Across cassava-producing communities, women prolong 1 of Nigeria’s astir consumed staple foods done a layered strategy of labour, ownership, and machinery, wherever endurance enactment continues regular nether trees, makeshits shelters and wrong processing centres

The odor of fermented cassava hangs successful the aerial agelong earlier the enactment comes into view, sharp, sour, and dense successful the greeting heat.

In Gabaraku successful Bida Local Government Area and Gwada successful Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State, among different areas, women are already astatine enactment beneath scattered trees, sitting connected bare crushed with buckets, knives, and piles of cassava tubers dispersed astir them.

A fewer steps distant basal government-supported processing centres established nether the Federal Government/ International Fund for Agricultural Development, (IFAD)-backed Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP) successful the state.

They are functional with platforms, h2o points, and structured processing spaces. But the astir disposable labour is happening extracurricular the centres.

Under the trees, the enactment begins

Nigeria produces much cassava than immoderate state successful the world, yet overmuch of it is inactive processed by hand.

Nigeria remains the worl...