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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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AUC commends IITA’s research activities
05.05.22His Excellency, Prof. Mohammed Belhocine, the Commissioner for Education, Science, Technology, and I…
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35 learn about gene editing and its communication
05.05.22Scientists and communication specialists from various Kenyan organizations participated in a four-da…
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Muhogo Bora Project trains local agricultural officers on management and gender integration in the Tanzanian cassava seed system
05.05.22IITA and Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI), through the Muhogo Bora (Better Cassa…
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NCEEC to partner with IITA on research and energy conservation
05.05.22Representatives from the National Center for Energy Efficiency and Conservation (NCEEC) visited IIT…
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IITA and partners launch EBS-Maize Platform to modernize breeding programs
05.05.22A significant agricultural transformation is underway for maize breeders across the globe to overcom…
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GSN to boost visibility of IITA gender-focused activities
05.05.22Following the launch of a new gender research webinar series by the IITA Gender Science Network …
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IITA commences public-private partnership in Central Africa seed sector with IFAD support
05.05.22From 14 to 15 April in Kinshasa, IITA launched the Strengthening the Supply of Improved Seeds an…
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ILRI scientist Delia Grace wins 2022 Arrell Global Food Innovation Award for research innovation
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Health
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Nutrition, health & food security
We congratulate Delia Grace, professor of food safety systems at the Natural Resources Institute and…
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Risk-based and One Health approaches for improved food safety in Africa
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Health
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Nutrition, health & food security
The rapid evolution of global food safety systems in response to population growth, urbanization, cl…
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Towards unified accountability and joint learning: A new Evaluation Framework and Policy for One CGIAR
04.05.22With an estimated annual research portfolio of more than USD 900 million, CGIAR aims to…
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African breeding and operations teams boost expertise and map out improvements
04.05.22Breeders and breeding operations staff across Africa are amping up their skills and solving shared…
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Inspired by “enemy of world hunger” Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram, national and global institutions and research centers strengthen their commitment to food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Representatives of the Government of Mexico, the Embassy of India, the National Agricultural Council…
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The impact of the Ukraine crisis on the global vegetable oil market
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Food security
The war in Ukraine has pushed prices of agricultural products to historically high levels, and…
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Appropriate technology, revisited
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Biodiversity
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Environmental health & biodiversity
For decades, farmers in the American corn belt have been battling a persistent and elusive…
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Gender and variety trait preferences in Uganda, Tanzania, and Mozambique
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Gender equality
To ensure better adoption of vitamin-A rich sweetpotato, it is paramount to develop varieties that…
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatens food security in Malawi. How can the country respond?
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Food security
Food insecurity is endemic in Malawi, affecting up to 38% of the population every year in the…
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Experts highlight benefits of improved cassava varieties ahead of 2022 planting season
27.04.22Experts from the Building an Economically Sustainable Integrated Cassava Seed System, Phase 2 (BASIC…
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AUC commends IITA’s research activities
27.04.22His Excellency, Prof. Mohammed Belhocine, the Commissioner for Education, Science, Technology, and I…
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