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Bill Gates on CGIAR and Adapting to a Warmer World
12.02.21Climate change is going to force us to consider entirely new needs. We need to…
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Today’s Climate and Food Crises Can Only be Solved in Tandem
09.02.21Extreme weather driven by climate change, conflict, and the COVID-19 pandemic are driving worsening …
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CGIAR Joins Forces with World Food Programme to Tackle Post-Pandemic Hunger
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning UN agency will work with CGIAR to bolster food systems amid…
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Investment into Research Must Double to Halt Climate and Food Crises by 2030
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Climate
World’s largest agricultural research partnership seeks to increase funding to $2 billion annually…
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Agricultural Research Unties the Gordian Knot
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Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Agricultural research and innovation to transform our food system is the only way to cut…
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How Africa can Lead the World in the COVID-19 Recovery
18.12.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Africa, compared to Asia, Europe and the US, has largely escaped the devastating death toll…
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From waste to wealth: The innovation turning cassava peels into a growing new industry
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
To make garri, cassava roots have to be peeled. Traditionally, the peels have been dumped…
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Zambian President commends IITA’s youth-in-ag initiative
03.04.21Zambia Agricultural Research Institute (ZARI) recently facilitated an exhibition program with the th…
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IITA scientist joins advisory panel of Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development
03.04.21IITA’s Director for Eastern Africa Hub and leader for Biotechnology research, Leena Tripathi, has…
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BASICS-II kicks off partnership to promote improved cassava varieties cultivation and consumption
23.03.21SANO Foods Limited and IITA, through the Building an Economically Sustainable, Integrated Cassava S…
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Women in leadership: Promoting an equal future
23.03.21The month of March hosts several gender-based celebrations, including International Women’s Day (I…
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Agriculture PS identifies priority collaboration areas with IITA to improve Tanzanian agriculture
16.03.21The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Mr Gerald Kusaya, has said the Government…
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Crop innovation: Mitigating the impact of the climate crisis in Africa
08.03.21Adopting drought-tolerant (DT) maize varieties has helped lift millions of people above Africa’s p…
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Scaling agricultural innovations to strengthen Africa’s food systems, food safety and nutrition
26.02.21-
Nutrition
Africa’s food systems are at an inflection point. Food demand in sub-Saharan Africa is expected…
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PlantVillage NuruAI app among key innovations supporting poor farmers to cope with climate change
23.02.21In his newly launched book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and…
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The CGIAR GHUs: Making plants and the world safer through phytosanitary interventions
22.02.21Pandemic! That word strikes at the heart of global sensitivities right now. But while most…
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How crop innovation is addressing the impact of the climate crisis in Africa
21.02.21In a just-published op-ed, Martin Kropff, Director General, International Maize and Wheat Improvemen…
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Young Africa Works-IITA commences multilocation training for 40,000 youth
16.02.21The Young Africa Works-IITA project commenced the first cohort of its training program in Lagos,…
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Banana breeding project successfully implements modern track and trace system
16.02.21Tagging products with barcodes for easy price retrieval in supermarkets is now a regular practice…
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Gift supports Cornell’s Tanzanian cassava efforts
04.02.21An anonymous gift of $2.65 million to support Cornell and partner research in Tanzania will…
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IITA strategically positioned to contribute to the One-CGIAR agenda in sub-Saharan Africa
04.02.21IITA embraced the One-CGIAR initiative in the past year because a unified CGIAR will be a more …
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Ugandan coffee farmers enjoy increased yields through CSA technologies despite COVID-19 pandemic
04.02.21The IITA Uganda Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) Program supports the Ugandan Government in its com…
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Researchers reveal factors responsible for Tilapia consumption preferences of low-income consumers in Egypt
04.02.21Egypt is among the top aquaculture producers globally, and tilapia alone accounts for 47.7% of…
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Scientists reveal the hybrid origin of the white Guinea yam
18.12.20An international team of scientists has revealed the origin of the most popular food staple…
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