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Thirty-three new CGIAR Initiatives announced to help radically realign food, land, and water systems
26.07.21Rome, Italy (July 26, 2021) – Today at the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS)…
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G20 Must Catalyze the Transforming of our Food Systems
01.07.21-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
CGIAR called on the G20 to foster international cooperation that transforms food systems through a…
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G7 foreign and development ministers meeting spotlights CGIAR
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
G7 foreign and development ministers named CGIAR as an example of a multilateral research institutio…
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Feeding Tigers: Agriculture Offers Emerging Markets a Route to Post-Covid Resilience
20.05.21-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
From wet markets to empty markets, the functionality of food systems has shaped the COVID-19…
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CGIAR Researcher from WorldFish, Dr. Shakuntala Thilsted, wins World Food Prize
11.05.21-
Nutrition
Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, a CGIAR scientist and nutrition expert from WorldFish, was named…
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Leaders Summit on Climate: USAID Announcements
26.04.21-
Climate
On April 22-23, President Biden hosted a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate to catalyze global…
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AGRA Board chair, former Ethiopia PM, and Tanzania President tour IITA-Tanzania
19.07.21IITA-Tanzania recently hosted the Board Chair of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa…
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IITA DG encourages teachers to create agribusiness enterprises
19.07.21The impact of the IITA youth program Start Them Early Program (STEP) is far reaching; it goes…
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I want to become a classy farmer - STEP club member
19.07.21Oluwadamilare Opadotun is the secretary of the Start Them Early Program (STEP) club at Vetland Sen…
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Study identifies new sources of resistance to Black Sigatoka in banana
19.07.21A study looking for additional sources of resistance to the deadly fungal disease of banana,…
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Farmers prefer locally bred CBSD-resistant cassava clones in DRC
14.07.21The USAID-funded Action to Control Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD) in the Democratic Republic of…
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IITA to strengthen collaboration with BUK
14.07.21An IITA-Kano delegation led by Station Head Alpha Kamara visited the Vice-Chancellor Bayero Universi…
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Improved eating: Healthy benefits of fortified snacks
14.07.21Eating healthy snacks is one way to combat poor nutrition, while legumes can replace animal-based…
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ENABLE-TAAT provides youth networking platform at Tanzania open day
14.07.21ENABLE-TAAT has held the Tanzanian edition of its open day to increase youth inclusion and…
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ENABLE-TAAT partners with banks to provide business credit to trained African youth
12.07.21ENABLE-TAAT is supporting its beneficiaries by linking them to financial institutions that can help …
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Researchers give decision-makers tools for better SAI interventions
12.07.21Africa is a major producer of several kinds of cereals like sorghum, millet, wheat, maize,…
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Youth to contribute innovative solutions to world hunger
12.07.21The World Food Forum has called for the massive involvement of youth in developing sustainable…
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BOWEN strengthens partnership with IITA to promote student and youth entrepreneurship
12.07.21IITA continually partners with government and private organizations, including universities, to adv…
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Agriculture: The key to state-level development in Nigeria
04.07.21IITA Director General Nteranya Sanginga has highlighted the need for state governments in Nigeria to…
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IITA partners with French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to enhance women’s livelihoods
04.07.21On 11 June, IITA officially launched the Support to Women Entrepreneurship in the Agrifood Sector …
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IITA research fellows to partner with national research institutes for development
04.07.21The International Association of Research Scholars and Fellows (IARSAF) at IITA went on a working …
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A machine for making yam mounds?
04.07.21Yam is the “king of crops” in West Africa and one of the most important…
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Policymakers approve Aflasafe testing in Burundi
04.07.21IITA-Burundi officially unveiled Aflasafe by presenting two Aflasafe products—Aflasafe BU01, a cou…
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Banana project applauded for making record progress amidst the COVID-19 pandemic
04.07.21Malnutrition in young children and pregnant women is known to have adverse consequences on their…
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