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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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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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Response plan against viral pandemics and other cassava diseases in DRC to be operationalized
28.10.21From 24 to 25 August, IITA in partnership with INERA, the Yangambi Faculty of Agricultural Science…
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World Food Day: TAAT wins top international award for digital campaign
28.10.21The Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) program has won the 2021 Stevie Aw…
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Youth-in-agribusiness initiatives key to solving youth unemployment
28.10.21Despite the introduction of several intervention programs to reduce or eradicate youth unemployment,…
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IITA partners with Releaf for agricultural sustainability
28.10.21On 24 September, Releaf—a team of youth—visited IITA headquarters. Releaf is led by Ikenna Nze…
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Root and tuber society strategize on how to fight hunger and poverty in Africa
28.10.21The International Society for Tropical Root Crops (ISTRC) held the 14th edition of its symposium on…
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DTCA partner with IITA in promoting agriculture in Africa
28.10.21IITA partners with other CGIAR centers, national research centers, private institutions, and govern…
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IITA DG Nteranya Sanginga appointed AFAP Chairman
28.10.21The African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership (AFAP) has appointed IITA Director General Nt…
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IITA to partner with the Nigerian Government on good agricultural policies
28.10.21On 17 September, the House Committee on Agriculture, Colleges and Institutions of the Nigerian Natio…
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IFAD-funded Zero Hunger project trains 116 Nigerian extension agents on good agronomic practices and data management
28.10.21As part of efforts to support Nigeria to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal 2 (Zero Hunger),…
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AICRRA-Ghana launch: Fostering partnerships for technology development
28.10.21On 14–16 September, the Accelerating Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa-Ghana Cluster (AI…
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IITA contributes to conserving Nigeria’s rarest endemic bird: Ibadan Malimbe
28.10.21The Ibadan Malimbe, range-restricted and endemic to Ibadan, is an important bird for conservation. I…
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TAAT Cassava Compact establishes two cassava processing factories in Togo
28.10.21The TAAT Cassava Compact, in partnership with the Togo Presidential Initiative on Cassava and the …
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Zero Hunger Project trains extension workers as engine room for Benue State agricultural transformation
28.10.21IITA, in partnership with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)-funded Value Ch…
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IITA Gender Network plans better strategies to promote gender research in One CGIAR
28.10.21The IITA Gender Science Network (GSN) is a team that comprises social and biophysical scientists, …
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Determinants influencing youth engagement in agribusiness
28.10.21With agribusiness gaining more attention in entrepreneurship development, youth-operated small enter…
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Bayer develops herbicides for cassava to tackle weeds and raise yields
28.10.21Bayer has developed and launched a new crop protection product known as Lagon to help…
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ENABLE-TAAT Kenya beneficiaries hail life-transforming experience
28.10.21After a training and mentorship period of 15 months, ENABLE-TAAT beneficiaries Jonathan Mutinda and …
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IITA-Zero Hunger Project organizes GAP and data management training for Ogun State extension agents
28.10.21The Ogun State Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr Adeola Odedina, represented by the Permanent Secreta…
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