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International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

The Executive Director, National Agency for the Great Green Walls (NAGGW), Dr Yusuf Bukar, visited …

Bunchy top disease-affected bananas in Kigoma region in Tanzania; virus infection causes severe stunting and bunching of leaves, and the plants do not produce any fruit leading to 100% loss. Photo: IITA/G. Mahuku

Bunchy top disease emerges as new threat to East African bananas

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

Africa’s leading banana production region is threatened by the invasive spread of the banana bunc…

ACAI Agronomist Ali Ng’adoa (right) providing insight about AKILIMO technology to students. Photo: IITA/H. Rashid

Tanzanian high school students request agricultural training from IITA

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn…

Farmer Promoter diagnosing a farm with the BXW App.

IITA’s research intervention transforming Rwandan agriculture

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

IITA–CGIAR in Rwanda contributes to agriculture technology through innovation generation in its…

The Muhogo Bora (MB) project workshop participants. Photo: IITA/H. Rashid

Muhogo Bora project validates socially inclusive model for selecting cassava seed entrepreneurs in Tanzania

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

Twenty-nine farmers, extension agents, food processors, and food entrepreneurs participated in a tra…

Fair participants examining NABANA cassava roots and stem-cuttings.

PICAGL-supported NABANA cassava variety at the heart of the Luhwindja agricultural fair

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

The IITA–CGIAR Projet Intégré des Grand Lacs (PICAGL) participated in the agricultural fair or…

Research Associate Ishaya Jockson demonstrating grain storage with PICs bags.

IITA scientists train WFP Kano third-party warehouse managers on grain management best practices

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

IITA–CGIAR and the World Food Program (WFP), Kano, conducted grain management and hermetic storag…

MasAgro is “a gift for Africa”

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Between June 20-23, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) hosted its Board o…

Modeling the optimal energy solutions for irrigation in Ethiopia

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Modeling the optimal energy solutions for irrigation in Ethiopia by Dawit Mekonnen and Hua Xie Open…

Mail & Guardian: Governments are still not putting water security at the centre of the climate crisis

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Mitigation

The climate crisis is a water crisis but governments around the world are still…

Can we accelerate gender equality?

International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

Gender equality
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion

In an introductory essay for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 2022 Goalkeepers report, Melind…

Vietnam’s first ‘AGRITECHNICA ASIA Live’: An International Success

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

Nutrition, health & food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

CAN THO, Vietnam, September 1, 2022) - Almost 4,000 attendees; 80 companies with machinery demonstra…

Conserving the Rejoso watershed

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

Private sector collaboration essential in achieving sustainability Rejoso watershed, at the foot of …

Integrated initiative launches in Nepal, India and Bangladesh

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

Food security
Nutrition, health & food security

CGIAR, in collaboration with government agencies and other relevant stakeholders, held country launc…

Drought tolerant maize and use of forecasting in agriculture praised by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

CGIAR Initiative on Digital Innovation

Climate adaptation & mitigation

The work of maize and wheat scientists at CGIAR and the International Maize and Wheat…

Connect Rural Areas with Digital Innovations to Unlock Climate Resilience for Hundreds of Millions of Farmers

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Research shows that digital innovations can increase small-scale farmers’ incomes, boost the adopt…

The quest for CGIAR innovations to reduce food system carbon footprints on a global scale

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

Climate adaptation & mitigation

Innovations from CGIAR defined the Green Revolution. For example, high-performing varieties of wheat…

Scientists use modelling to hone emissions estimates for oil palm on peat