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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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RadioIITA launches soybean empowerment farmer outreach
04.09.23RadioIITA, launched in 2019 as an internet and community radio, aims to become a center…
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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…
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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…
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AALI champions youth action towards economic development in agriculture
29.08.23The African Agricultural Leadership Institute (AALI) is an independent, non-profit international i…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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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