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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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IITA launches environment-friendly BBEST project in DRC
25.04.23IITA–CGIAR initiated a new project, IITA BBEST, to improve urban sanitation and address the probl…
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Highlighting benefits and challenges of Olokemeji Reforestation Project in Nigeria
25.04.23Towering greens in forests provide a wide range of products and services crucial to the…
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IAA highlights work at the Global Millets (Shree Anna) Conference
25.04.23At the Global Millets (Shree Anna) Conference in India, organized to commemorate the International Y…
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IITA improves maize genotypes in developing countries
08.04.23Yellow maize varieties are widely grown particularly in tropical lowlands of West and Central Africa…
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Novelty weed control method boosts SSA women cassava farmers
08.04.23A new approach to controlling weeds in cassava will make life easier for millions of…
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CSAT-Mali to expand its activities with additional funding from the Embassy of the Norwegian Kingdom
08.04.23The Embassy of the Norwegian Kingdom in Mali has granted additional funding to the CSAT-Mali…
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Addressing stereotypes to help women unleash their full potential
08.04.23For a long time, stereotype threat has kept women and girls from unleashing their full…
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EU delegation visits DeSIRA project field experiments in Malawi
08.04.23The EU-DeSIRA Malawi team comprising Program Manager Marco Vacirca and Finance Manager Chapresto Cor…
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Free innovation and scaling course expands capacity with Spanish and French versions
08.04.23CGIAR, in collaboration with Wageningen University, has developed a free online course on innovati…
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Revolutionizing cassava breeding for widespread impact
08.04.23Siraj Ismail Kayondo, a Research scientist at CGIAR–IITA, is making a significant impact in the c…
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Study explores genetic analysis of important micronutrients in tropical maize
04.04.23Malnutrition, especially micronutrient deficiency has been associated with anemia, fatigue, and in s…
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Aflatoxin and conflict: Two sides of threat to food safety
21.03.23The world is presently facing a myriad of challenges including, climate change, COVID-19, natural di…
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Closing the gender gap in science: The role of mentorship
10.03.23Research shows that women are poorly represented in science, accounting for less than 30% of…
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Tanzania’s maize and groundnut farmers get respite from aflatoxin poisoning
06.03.23Maize is one of Tanzania’s most important food crops, and the country is the largest…
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African yam bean: Towards developing adaptive crop varieties
06.03.23To ensure food security globally, CGIAR-IITA, through its African yam bean project at Genetic Resour…
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Celebrating women and girls aspiring to change the world through science
21.02.23Women account for less than 30% of scientists and researchers in the world, partly due…
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Ministry of Forestry commits to reforesting more degraded lands in southwestern Nigeria
20.02.23Following IITA Forest Center’s impactful contributions to forest restoration in Africa, the Ogun …
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IITA Digital Delivery Working Group delivers progress report to Ogun State Commissioner
20.02.23The IITA Digital Delivery Working team led by virologist and Head of the Germplasm Health…
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