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Bill Gates on CGIAR and Adapting to a Warmer World
CGIAR12.02.21Climate 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
CGIAR09.02.21Extreme 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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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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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
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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
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)05.04.21-
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
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)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
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)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
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)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
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)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
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)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
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)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
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)26.02.21-
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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
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)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
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)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
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)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
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)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
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)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
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)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
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)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
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)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
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)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
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)18.12.20An international team of scientists has revealed the origin of the most popular food staple…
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