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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food SystemsÂ
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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Over 50 scientists and science communicators trained to communicate on genome editing
02.10.22The Alliance for Science (AFS), in conjunction with the Open Forum for Agricultural Biotechnology (O…
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SISCA analyzes results of inventory of cassava and maize seed sectors in DRC
02.10.22Stakeholders in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) organized a workshop to analyze the results…
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Cameroon seeks to strengthen ties with IITA in cassava production
23.09.22His Excellency Gabriel Mbairobe, Hon Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MINADER) from t…
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IITA Forest Center expands its species conservation bank
23.09.22On 25 August, IITA Forest Center contributed to ecosystem restoration in a tree planting exercise…
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IITA trains science messengers to promote agricultural research
23.09.22In a virtual seminar organized by IITA–CGIAR on 12 September, Program Manager of Biotech and Gen…
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NAGGW team to collaborate with IITA on mandate crops
23.09.22The Executive Director, National Agency for the Great Green Walls (NAGGW), Dr Yusuf Bukar, visited …
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Bunchy top disease emerges as new threat to East African bananas
23.09.22Africa’s leading banana production region is threatened by the invasive spread of the banana bunc…
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Tanzanian high school students request agricultural training from IITA
23.09.22“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn…
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IITA’s research intervention transforming Rwandan agriculture
23.09.22IITA–CGIAR in Rwanda contributes to agriculture technology through innovation generation in its…
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Muhogo Bora project validates socially inclusive model for selecting cassava seed entrepreneurs in Tanzania
23.09.22Twenty-nine farmers, extension agents, food processors, and food entrepreneurs participated in a tra…
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PICAGL-supported NABANA cassava variety at the heart of the Luhwindja agricultural fair
23.09.22The IITA–CGIAR Projet Intégré des Grand Lacs (PICAGL) participated in the agricultural fair or…
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IITA scientists train WFP Kano third-party warehouse managers on grain management best practices
23.09.22IITA–CGIAR and the World Food Program (WFP), Kano, conducted grain management and hermetic storag…
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IITA Zero Hunger Project equips nutrition and agripreneurship trainers in Nigeria’s Middle Belt
11.09.22Twenty-nine farmers, extension agents, food processors, and food entrepreneurs participated in a tra…
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IITA’s strategic role highlighted during new agricultural season launch
11.09.22The official launch of the 2022 ̶2023 agricultural season A in South Kivu took place…
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IFAD Country Director seeks stronger ties with IITA
11.09.22A five-member delegation from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), led by the…
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Agric Commissioner reiterates government’s commitment to ensuring zero hunger in Benue State
11.09.22Benue State Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Dr Kester Kyenge, has applauded theÂ…
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Stakeholders discuss solutions to aflatoxin scourge on Nigeria’s export market
09.09.22The Reducing Post-harvest loss across Vitamin A Maize and Cassava Value Chain project of IITA–CGI…
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IITA to partner with NIHORT to improve livelihoods through horticulture
09.09.22IITAÂ collaborates with private and government institutions to ensure sustainable agricultural devel…
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