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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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Access to genetic analysis accelerates banana breeding in East Africa
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Nutrition
Banana producers face many pests and diseases that affect their crop, such as Panama disease…
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PDAU co-facilitates project development and management training for senior ABUAD staff
22.11.21The IITA Project Development and Administration Unit (PDAU), represented by ’Kayode Awobajo, co…
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Open access: Promoting right and accessible knowledge
22.11.21IITA joined the international community to celebrate Open Access Week from 25 to 29 October, as…
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IITA partners Oyo State government and others to promote agribusiness
22.11.21Under the Oyo State Agribusiness Development Agency (OYSADA), the Oyo State Government collaborated…
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A new publication in Nature Reports on a toolkit for improved chickpea varieties
22.11.21Nature Reports published an open-access paper on a big plant-genome sequencing study conducted by IC…
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Improving groundnut farming with early maturing resilient varieties
22.11.21To accelerate the development of improved groundnut varieties, ICRISAT’s groundnut breeding team i…
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Milking the opportunities left behind
22.11.21Youth migration from rural to urban areas is often attributed to a lack of employment…
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IITA among $100,000 Growth Grant finalist for Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge
22.11.21The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) has announced that IITA is among the Growth Grand finali…
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ENABLE-TAAT facilitating youth access to credit through partnerships
22.11.21Budding youth-led enterprises often find it challenging to raise capital. In many cases, such enterp…
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International, multi-stakeholder alliance continue to tackle banana bunchy top disease in Africa
22.11.21Up to 16 African countries have now experienced the banana bunchy top disease (BBTD), caused…
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The future of potatoes in Georgia is youthful business
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Giorgi Khitarishvili started potato farming with his parents when he was five years old, living…
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C. Woermann Nigeria and IITA-BIP collaborate to launch a showroom of yield-improving agricultural tools
22.11.21On 22 October, C. Woermann Nigeria and STIHL Company in Germany partnered with IITA’s Business In…
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ENABLE-TAAT launches demo fields at 12 NYSC orientation camps
22.11.21To provide agribusiness support to youth, ENABLE-TAAT has established agribusiness demonstration far…
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IITA partners with VOWDA to ensure agricultural transformation among women
22.11.21The Voice of Women in the Development of Agriculture (VOWDA), in collaboration with IITA, organized…
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SWEAN project trains women entrepreneurs in Zaria and Ibadan
22.11.21Support Women Entrepreneurship in the Agrifood sector in Nigeria (SWEAN) has concluded the training …
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Nigerian government grants internet and community radio licenses to IITA
22.11.21The Federal Government of Nigeria has approved two radio licenses for IITA—an Internet radio licen…
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IITA-Tanzania hosts Member of Parliament
22.11.21A Special Seats Member of Parliament, Hon. Neema Lungangira, visited IITA at its Eastern Africa re…
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IITA Forest Center biodiversity watch: The African House Snake
22.11.21One of the vast benefits of the IITA forest reserve is the diversity of creatures the forest…
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