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IITA-CGIAR scientist named one of Africa Food Prize 2025 laureates for breakthrough in cassava and yam seed systems
04.09.25Ibadan, Nigeria – IITA–CGIAR proudly celebrates the recognition of Dr Mercy Diebiru-Ojo as o…
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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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
16.05.25-
Big data
On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Harnessing the power of science to reduce poverty and malnutrition
23.11.21Authored by CGIAR and the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) A five-year partnership being launched…
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Independent Advising in One CGIAR: Cross-Pollination of Science Advice with Evaluative Evidence
23.11.21At this time of transformational change, CGIAR requires independent and evidence-based advice more t…
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Unpacking the effects of a complex intervention on women’s poultry production: Evidence from Burkina Faso
23.11.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY JESSICA LEIGHT, JESSICA HECKERT AND AULO GELLI Integrated interventions aimed at improving both l…
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With COP26 in the rearview, where do we go from here?
23.11.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
IWMI and One CGIAR look forward to the work ahead post-Glasgow, as determined as…
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Access to genetic analysis accelerates banana breeding in East Africa
22.11.21-
Food security
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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
22.11.21-
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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