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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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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 partners with Inqaba Biotec and Redclay to mitigate climate crisis in new tree genome sequencing initiative
09.01.23As the world consistently commits to halting the downward trend of biodiversity loss through constan…
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Zero Hunger Project-trained fabricators now making money from hammer mills and cassava press
09.01.23To achieve sustained technology transfer, IITA–CGIAR, under the IFAD-funded Zero Hunger Initiativ…
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Bambara groundnut: Africa’s key to food and nutrition security
03.01.23Food and nutrition insecurity is a major challenge facing the global community. To fill the…
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IITA-VCDF OGSTEP to strengthen private sector-led agri-food value chains in Ijebu-Ode
03.01.23The Value Chain Development Firm (VCDF) of IITA–CGIAR hosted the Ogun State Economic Transformat…
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Reducing Postharvest loss project donates equipment to set up mycotoxin testing hubs in Nigeria
03.01.23In a ceremony held on 29 November at IITA-Abuja, IITA Associate Scientist Titilayo Falade and Act…
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IITA Zero Hunger Project empowers women and youth in nutrition and agripreneurship in Ogun State
03.01.23Fifteen extension Agents, food processors, and food entrepreneurs in Ogun State have been trained as…
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IITA showcases technologies in the first International Plantain Festival in South Cameroon
03.01.23The first International Plantain Festival, organized by the National Association for Actors of the P…
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IARSAF’s 25th symposium tackles changing climate conditions in the agriculture sector
03.01.23The International Association of Research Scholars and Fellows (IARSAF) recently held its 25th annu…
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IITA trains ministry officials on eradicating Banana bunchy top virus in Tanzania
03.01.23As part of efforts to curb the spread of the invasive Banana Bunchy Top disease…
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IITA embarks on project to boost vegetatively-propagated crop seed systems in Africa
03.01.23IITA–CGIAR is set to commence a five-year project—Program for Seed System Innovation for Vegeta…
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IITA signs MoU with OOK Group to facilitate project delivery
08.12.22Finding the right partner institution to implement a project is crucial. This will result in…
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IITA strengthens long-term collaboration with the British Government
08.12.22British Deputy High Commissioner in Nigeria, Ben Llewellyn-Jones, visited IITA–CGIAR accompanie…
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Scientists to upscale research on yam discovery and conservation
08.12.22Scientists have agreed to increase inputs in discovering and conserving yam diversity and aim to…
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Private-sector partners seek IITA collaboration on extended agricultural grants
25.11.22IITA–CGIAR considers the private sector a major stakeholder in the development of Africa’s agri…
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IITA Forest Center builds staff capacity in eco-tourism and hospitality management
25.11.22The IITA Ibadan campus is fast becoming a leading eco-tourism hub in Nigeria. Beyond producing res…
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DG Sanginga celebrates 11 years of transforming African agriculture at the helm of IITA
25.11.22Dr Nteranya Sanginga became the Director General at IITA–CGIAR on 1 November 2011. During his …
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IITA to partner with CPTI on technology transfer
25.11.22IITA–CGIAR recognizes the importance of agriculture in Africa’s development; hence, it is open …
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CGIAR discusses One Health approach as key to improved planetary health
25.11.22CGIAR organized a webinar to discuss One Health. IITA–CGIAR Associate Scientist Titilayo Falade…
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