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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…
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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…
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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…
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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
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Big data
On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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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…
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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…
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YABIC Mbalmayo commences pork sausage production
22.08.23The sausage production pilot enterprise of YABIC Mbalmayo is one of the 30 pilot enterprises…
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AFR100 reforestation sponsor commends IITA Forest Center’s reforestation expertise
22.08.23IITA Forest Center emerged one of the first 100 cohort members of the African Forest Landscape Res…
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IITA and CIP provide Eastern DRC relief efforts with RTB planting materials
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Access to quality planting materials in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is one of…
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CGIAR’s Africa-based leaders meet in Ibadan, Nigeria, to discuss solutions to the region’s food security challenges
15.08.23In a historic first, Dr Simeon Ehui, IITA Director General (DG) and CGIAR Continental Director…
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Nigerian government to support IITA-CGIAR’s agriculture transformation agenda
15.08.23Following his assumption of office, IITA Director General and CGIAR Continental Director for Africa,…
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IITA’s new Director General to support NFWP-SU project to improve women’s livelihood
15.08.23As part of the strategies to position women as catalysts in the areas of technology…
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Beekeeping’s economic and conservation benefits showcased at Olokemeji training
15.08.23The recent focus on aspartame has created a global controversy around one of the industrial…
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Capacity development in plant virus diagnostics impacting the next generation of scientists
15.08.23As part of efforts to strengthen the capacities of young graduates, IITA–CGIAR Virology and Mole…
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Investigating and addressing low agricultural productivity for women
15.08.23Despite the growing recognition of the vital contribution of women to agricultural production in low…
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Leading the way to import substitution through rice value addition
15.08.23Nigeria is Africa’s leading rice producer and produces over 46 percent of West Africa’s harvest.…
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Ebonyi renews commitment to achieving zero hunger
10.08.23The Ebonyi State Government has renewed its commitment to achieving zero hunger in the southeastern…
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Banana farmers receive free TARIBAN plantlets for adoption and scaling
10.08.23After great effort put into the official release in 2021 and multiplication of the four new, impro…
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IITA welcomes Dr Simeon Ehui, new Director General and CGIAR Director for Africa
10.08.23IITA warmly welcomes our new Director General, Dr Simeon Ehui, who is also the CGIAR Director for…
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IITA and French Embassy explore collaboration opportunities in Ghana
10.08.23IITA–CGIAR Ghana received France’s Regional Agriculture Counsellor to Benin, Cameroon, Ghana, N…
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Enset root mealybugs: Are they a threat to bananas?
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Environmental health & biodiversity
What are enset root mealybugs? Enset root mealybugs are an important pest affecting the cultivation…
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Aflasafe: A natural product that safeguards food for Africans now available
01.08.23A natural product that protects crops in farmers’ fields from toxic compounds such as aflatoxin…
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Aspiring agripreneurs progressing under ENABLE Youth Cameroon
01.08.23From April 18, 2023, about 490 aspiring agripreneurs have been incubating under the second cohort…
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Angola government to restructure agricultural sector with IITA partnership
01.08.23Delegates from the Ministry of Agriculture, Angola—the Director General of Institute for Agrarian …
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