{"id":15042,"date":"2022-04-13T12:03:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/04\/13\/cameroon-sees-cassava-flour-boom-as-grain-prices-surge\/"},"modified":"2022-04-13T12:03:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:03:07","slug":"cameroon-sees-cassava-flour-boom-as-grain-prices-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/04\/13\/cameroon-sees-cassava-flour-boom-as-grain-prices-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon sees cassava flour boom as grain prices surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to impact crucial food exports, wheat prices are soaring. Many African countries rely on Ukrainian and Russian grain exports and could face a severe food crisis.\u00a0But in Cameroon, entrepreneurs are coming up with alternatives to wheat, which is used to make\u00a0flour. Production of bread and cakes made from local cassava and sweet potato flour is now booming. These tubers are abundant in the country but\u00a0are normally used unprocessed in traditional dishes. Our correspondents report.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to impact crucial food exports, wheat prices are soaring. Many African countries rely on Ukrainian and Russian grain exports and could face a severe food crisis.\u00a0But in Cameroon, entrepreneurs are coming up with alternatives to wheat, which is used to make\u00a0flour. Production of bread and cakes made from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,3],"class_list":["post-15042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afriqueune","tag-africa","tag-afrique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}