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IITA and partners combat poor nutrition in women and children

Malnutrition in young children and pregnant women is known to have adverse consequences on their…

IITA donates elite planting materials to boost FCT farmers’ productivity

Farmers in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, received a boost as the IITA-Abuja team donated 330 kg of…

Educating youth to bridge the protein gap in livestock feed

One of the key requirements for healthy livestock is the availability of a protein diet.…

IITA signs Aflasafe manufacturing and distribution agreement in Mozambique

Food safety took a step forward in Mozambique as IITA signed a Technology Transfer and Licensing A…

When is choice empowering?

Plant breeders thought they were on the right track when they released a new hybrid…

As a decade of ecosystem restoration kicks off, don't forget the people

Global ecosystem restoration efforts are often measured by billions of trees planted or square kilom…

Why are aspirations of farming communities important to know in developing economies?

A systematic literature review of studies from 14 low and middle income countries in Asia…

Designing Quasi-Experimental Impact Studies of Agricultural Research at Scale

CIP discussion: Agricultural innovation, the key for bridging R&D with impact at scale

BY CHRISTOPHER BUTLER The need to innovate in agriculture is more urgent than ever. The…

Stories of change: Analyzing aspirations of rural women and men

Looking into the aspirations of rural people provides insights into how they earn, invest, make…

Improved tropical forages: A low-emissions livestock diet

In the soil just below the hooves of livestock live the Earth’s life support system—as plants…

Work on a ‘forgotten foods’ manifesto begins in Africa

To trigger research and value chain actions as well as advocacy and promotion of indigenous…

Mighty millets super grains of power

The United Nations General Assembly adopted an India-sponsored resolution to mark 2023 as the intern…

ISDC on the Future of One CGIAR

Count on water to disaster-proof global food systems

Covid-19 has cast a long shadow over global dialogues around food and nutrition security bringing…

The importance of human-centered ecological restoration

The launch of the United Nations Decade of Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) will direct a lot of…

Adult plant resistance (APR): the strategy to beat persistent pathogens

The three rust diseases, yellow (stripe) rust, black (stem) rust, and brown (left) rust occur…

Hybrid seed production and marketing advances

“My goal is to produce and sell 200 metric tons of hybrid maize by 2025,”…