Olubukola Bosede Osuntade’s current research entails examining the development of the cassava value chain and its influence on incomes, standards of living, and the general well-being of smallholder farmers, processors, marketers, and other service providers. “We call it converting waste to wealth,” she says. “Many people in southwestern Nigeria are involved in cassava processing, but they discard the peels, thereby causing pollution. Why not dry this waste and feed it to livestock?”