
Abstract
Societal impact statement
Major staple crops are often introduced and cultivated in monocultures. Yams arestaple crops native to the majority of low- and middle-income countries and can pro-vide an alternative to introduced staple crops. [Correction added on 9 January 2026,after first online publication: In the preceding sentence, stable has been corrected tostaple in this version.] We showed that lesser yams cultivated together with teaktrees (planted








