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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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Scaling opportunities in Molecular Biology to improve the agricultural sector
24.07.23The IITA Bioscience Center recently organized a five-day hands-on training in Ibadan to strengthen…
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Healthy living: Enabling a low glycemic diet
24.07.23About 72% of the population in sub-Saharan Africa has increased their dietary intake of carbohydrate…
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Yam multiplication plots established across five regions
24.07.23Efforts to encourage the adoption and expand diffusion of the newly released yam varieties across…
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Aflasafe technology showcased at international, high-level biocontrol events
24.07.23IITA’s internationally recognized Aflasafe Initiative has made significant strides in developing a…
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Yam investors trained on seed yam tuber production at IITA
17.07.23The IITA Capacity Development Office (CDO) and Yam Improvement Program (YIP) organized training on…
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Towards gender transformative interventions in the Muhogo Bora cassava seed system project in Tanzania
17.07.23Achieving the gender equality commitment in agrifood systems would require deliberate and bold actio…
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Value addition key to Africa’s food and nutrition security
17.07.23An agribusiness boot camp was organized recently to improve the learning skills of the agribusiness…
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HER+ research on norms limiting women’s resilience to climate change
17.07.23In the recently concluded 2023 Development Studies Association (DSA) annual conference, IITA Pos…
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Scaling agriculture science and innovation for a climate-resilient future in Africa
13.07.23Nowhere does the challenge of climate change manifest more acutely and urgently than in African…
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Yam farmers enjoy newly released varieties from IITA in Nigeria
11.07.23The IITA Yam Improvement Program (YIP) started the distribution of newly released yam varieties re…
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Adopting newly developed cowpea varieties with high-yielding performance
11.07.23In West Africa, particularly Nigeria, few crops play a vital role in food security, one…
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Making the most of homestead farming
11.07.23By March 2023, Grace started selling the spinach in her garden. She made sales of…
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ENABLE-TAAT to explore Somali youth empowerment through agribusiness
03.07.23ENABLE-TAAT and the sorghum commodity compact are exploring partnership opportunities with the gover…
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Taking improved seed production and marketing techniques to community-based seed producers
03.07.23The journey to change Community-Based Seed Producers (CBSPs) to Community-Based Seed Entrepreneurs (…
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IITA-CGIAR research reveals areas to improve Africa’s nutrition
03.07.23Many Africans are malnourished, micronutrient deficient, associated with diet-related non-communicab…
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Engaging aggregators and farmers to deliver quality grain for consumer and seed markets
03.07.23IITA, under the One CGIAR Seed Equal initiative Work Package 2, “Boosting Legume Seed through …
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Cross-sectoral learnings on emerging gender and social norms measures
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As part of the Harnessing Gender and Social Equality for Resilience in Agrifood Systems (HER+)…
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Gender scientists trained to leverage social media for better science communication
26.06.23Despite the tremendous volume of work scientists carry out across Africa to address food insecurity…
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