A new RDA (Korea’s Rural Development Authority) abroad virtual laboratory (RAVL) was opened in ILRI’s laboratories in Nairobi, Kenya, which will serve as the focus of the collaborative research work between ILRI and RDA.
Archive for July, 2012
Forest pests and pathogens: what is changing and how can research respond?
Insects and diseases fill important roles in forest dynamics, but occasionally they grow to damaging proportions with catastrophic impacts, threatening economic stability and food security. Across Africa, new pathogens and several new fungal species ha…
Yield Potential and Physiological and Morphological Characteristics Related to Yield Performance in Oryza glaberrima Steud.
Koichi Futakuchi, Moussa Sié, Kazuki Saito et al. 2012. Yield Potential and Physiological and Morphological Characteristics Related to Yield Performance in Oryza glaberrima Steud. Plant Production Science 15(3)151-163.
AFEJ: International agric chiefs commend high quality of research at IITA
The Chair of the Consortium Board of CGIAR, Dr Carlos Pérez del Castillo has commended the high quality of research work being undertaken by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), emphasizing that this is needed now more than ever…
AFEJ: IITA offers improved cassava, cowpea and maize seeds to Jigawa state
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) has offered Jigawa state improved cowpea and maize varieties, as part of efforts to help improve the fortunes of agriculture in that state.