A close relationship exists between conflict and food production. Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to experience the most rapid growth in demand for roots and tubers between 1993 and 2020. Two-thirds of the increase will come from cassava, reflecting its important role in many African diets. While demand for roots and tubers in developed countries will remain virtually unchanged between 1993 and 2020, it will increase by almost 60 percent in developing countries, driven to a large extent by increases in demand for cassava, followed by potato. Roots and tubers will play economically important and increasingly diversified roles in developing-country food systems over the next two decades.
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