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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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Extension agents prepped to serve orange-fleshed sweet potato farmers in Oyo State
30.05.23Nine extension agents (five male, four female), including two youths, have been trained by IITA–C…
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CGIAR officially launches Portfolio of Research Initiatives in Zambia
22.05.23The CGIAR Portfolio of Research Initiatives was launched in Zambia on 26 April at a high-level eve…
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IITA continues supporting the PADECAS Project in Central Africa Republic
22.05.23IITA–CGIAR has been providing support to the Agricultural Value Chain Development Project in the …
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CGIAR explores IITA’s best practices for system-wide adoption
22.05.23The CGIAR Global Director of Business Operations and Finance, Marion Barriskell, and Senior Directo…
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Breeders deliberate on soybean product advancement to meet market demand
22.05.23As part of efforts to combat malnutrition in Africa, IITA-CGIAR has embraced the breeding and adopt…
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New partnership to reduce post-harvest loss and boost food security in Nigeria
22.05.23On 3 May, IITA-CGIAR signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) Nigerian Stored Products Research…
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Harnessing scaling partnerships in the Great Lakes region for large-scale impact
18.05.23The USAID-funded “Great Lakes Accelerated Innovation Delivery Initiative Rapid Delivery Hub” (AI…
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Interim DG and other IITA scientists on the Research.com world’s best plant science and agronomy list
15.05.23Leading research portal, Research.com, publishes annual rankings in multiple fields of science, incl…
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Cassava seed system boosted by SeedTracker’s new seed quality self-compliance reporting module
15.05.23IITA–CGIAR, in collaboration with the National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC) and Catholic Reli…
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More donor support to strengthen IITA’s work on bio-stimulants
15.05.23With the high cost of fertilizers, bio-stimulants are becoming an affordable source for increasing f…
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IITA emerges as winner at the innovation week in Tanzania
15.05.23IITA–CGIAR won the overall best booth and the best booth under the research institutes and organi…
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IYA wins innovative youth award
15.05.23A member of the IITA Youth Agripreneurs in Kalambo has emerged as the winner of…
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Strengthened partnerships with Madagascar ministry to advance agriculture sector
15.05.23As Africa’s leading partner in research for development, IITA–CGIAR is making significant stri…
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Minister of Agriculture expresses confidence in IITA agriculture transformation in Togo
15.05.23IITA–CGIAR, under the auspices of the IFAD-funded Zero Hunger Project, has signed an agreement wit…
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Digital platform for smallholder farmers launched in Ogun State, Nigeria
15.05.23As part of efforts to strengthen the value chain processes in agriculture, especially among smallhol…
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IITA strengthens quarantine service workforce capacity in Nigeria
09.05.23Institutional collaborations are critical for effectively monitoring, preventing, and controlling pl…
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Ghanaian livestock farmers boosted by training on environment-friendly alternative feed technology
09.05.23The IITA–CGIAR-led BSF for Bio Circular Economy and Environmental Sustainability (BBEST) project,…
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Small-scale processors and farmers in Tanzania boosted by new machine donations
09.05.23Value addition of agriculture products is crucial to the sector’s development in Tanzania and impr…
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