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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
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CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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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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Tanzanian President and IITA to strengthen cooperation in agriculture and other sectors
05.10.23An IITA delegation led by IITA Goodwill Ambassador Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and IITA Director Gener…
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Strengthening partnerships for food systems in Africa
05.10.23IITA–CGIAR played a key role at the just concluded Africa Food Systems Forum (AFSF) hosted in T…
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CGIAR centers and partners showcase innovations at AGRF pre-summit
05.10.23IITA-CGIAR led the organization of a field visit, which hosted about 150 participants for the Afric…
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Excitement as IITA Tanzania receives Director General in first visit
05.10.23On 8 September, the quiet routine of the IITA Eastern Africa Hub office was replaced with lively…
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In sub-Saharan Africa, mineral fertilisation and agroecology are not incompatible
05.10.23The world has been dealing with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change such…
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Improved cassava varieties are becoming a key ingredient in global food security
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
Little known in most highly developed countries, the root vegetable cassava has been largely ignored…
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Resilient agriculture: A pathway to achieving sustainable food systems
19.09.23The world has been dealing with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change such…
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IITA and Tokyo University to intensify partnership addressing West African agricultural challenges
19.09.23From 24 to 31 August, IITA accommodated four representatives from the Tokyo University of Agricul…
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Showcasing banana hybrids at the 2023 Tanzania International Agricultural Trade Show
19.09.23IITA, in collaboration with the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AI…
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Central African Republic cassava value chain receives support from IITA-TAAT Cassava Compact
19.09.23IITA and the PADECAS project organized capacity-building workshops in Central African Republic from…
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ATA annual meeting highlights production support in the cassava value chain
19.09.23The government-funded Agricultural Transformation Agenda program in the Democratic Republic of Congo…
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Exploring promising opportunities between Argentina and IITA
19.09.23In a promising step towards collaboration, an IITA delegation visited the Embassy of Argentina in …
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Promising yam bacteria can enhance African food security
11.09.23In a collaborative effort, IITA–CGIAR and the Tokyo University of Agriculture (Tokyo NODAI) sc…
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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…
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Farmers sensitized on sustainable seed yam production
11.09.23IITA and its partner, the National Agricultural Seed Council (NASC), are advocating the applicati…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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