News
Featured news
-
World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
Read more -
Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
Read more -
Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
Read more -
AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
16.05.25-
Big data
On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
Read more -
-
Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
Read more -
International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
Read more
Filters
-
Count on me for youth in agribusiness revolution – Chief Obasanjo
11.09.23The former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and IITA Goodwill Ambassador, Chief Oluseg…
Read more -
Farmers sensitized on sustainable seed yam production
11.09.23IITA and its partner, the National Agricultural Seed Council (NASC), are advocating the applicati…
Read more -
IITA presents cross-cutting innovations at Malawi agriculture fair
11.09.23“I particularly came to seek more information on how to venture into soybean farming, for…
Read more -
IITA, Exchange VZW, and HORTINET collaborate on banana clean seed production toward import reduction in Malawi
11.09.23With an estimated annual consumption of 453,000 metric tons, bananas are important to Malawi. Theref…
Read more -
President Bio appoints IITA alum Dr Henry Musa Kpaka to lead Sierra Leone’s agricultural transformation
11.09.23IITA alumnus Dr Henry Musa Kpaka has been appointed by President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra…
Read more -
Lasting support guaranteed for the conservation of sub-Saharan Africa’s crop diversity
11.09.23Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 7 September 2023 – The future of some of Africa’s most beloved…
Read more -
From politician to climate-smart coffee farmer: The Kate Nakimuli story
11.09.23Meet Kate Nakimuli, a determined widow in Luweero District who used to be a sub-county…
Read more -
IITA-BBEST project to integrate digital technology in scaling innovation
04.09.23The Accra office of the IITA-led “Black Soldier Fly (BSF) for Bio Circular Economy and Environmen…
Read more -
IITA advances innovation in the EBS Maize Breeding Program to enhance food-secure solutions
04.09.23The Enterprise Breeding System (EBS)—launched in April 2022 at IITA—is an open-source breeding i…
Read more -
YABIC of Mfou providing digital solutions for youths
04.09.23As part of efforts to bridge the digital divide experienced by start-ups and provide high-quality…
Read more -
RadioIITA launches soybean empowerment farmer outreach
04.09.23RadioIITA, launched in 2019 as an internet and community radio, aims to become a center…
Read more -
Enhanced production for Cameroon seed producers after SISCA training
04.09.23To improve smallholder farmers’ sustainable access to quality maize and cassava seeds, the SISCA p…
Read more -
World Bank seeks to scale IITA’s innovations
29.08.23The World Bank Country Director for Nigeria, Dr Shubham Chaudhuri, paid a courtesy visit to IITA…
Read more -
AALI champions youth action towards economic development in agriculture
29.08.23The African Agricultural Leadership Institute (AALI) is an independent, non-profit international i…
Read more -
Young people can achieve a sustainable world with green skills
29.08.23A conference recently organized by the IITA Youth in Agribusiness (IYA) Unit has highlighted the i…
Read more -
The “Maison du Champignon” enterprise producing fresh mushrooms at YABIC Zamengoue
29.08.23The “Maison du Champignon” is one of the pilot enterprises set up under the ENABLE…
Read more -
Capacity building for DR Congo seed business actors
29.08.23A group of SMEs, cooperatives, and seed producers were trained in basic seed production, quality…
Read more -
Kano farmers trained on the use of seed planters to reduce drudgery
22.08.23Mechanization has been recognized as an essential factor in agriculture development efforts to save …
Read more