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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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TAAT gets $27 million boost for emergency production of 120 million tonnes of food
20.08.22The African Development Bank is set to release an additional $27.41 million to implement Phase…
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IAA, CADL Partnership: Second phase of input financing for farmers begins
18.08.22In continuation of input financing for 259 maize and rice farmers in Gombi and Song…
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IITA scientists reveal strategy to increase cowpea yield and protein content
18.08.22Cowpea, one of IITA mandate crops, is an important source of protein and livelihood for many peopl…
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MEDA partners with IITA to improve food systems
18.08.22The Senior Regional Director of Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA), Dr Pierre Kadet,…
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IITA Molecular Geneticist’s research gains media attention
18.08.22Following her emergence as the 2022 winner of the prestigious Illumina Agricultural Greater Good I…
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CGIAR Global Director for Innovative Finance and Resource Mobilization tours IITA business and production facilities
18.08.22The CGIAR Global Director for Innovative Finance and Resource Mobilization, Andre Zandstra, in his …
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STEP hosts CGIAR Global Director at Fasola agribusiness facility
18.08.22Andre Zandstra, Global Director, Innovative Finance and Resource Mobilization at the CGIAR System …
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Celebrating International Youth Day and ten years of the youth agripreneur movement
18.08.22The IITA Youth Agripreneurs (IYA) is recognized as one of the pioneer models for youth engagement …
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PAULESI students visit IITA breeding program
18.08.22Building the capacities of the younger generation would translate into immediate and long-term goal …
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Partner organizations benefit from IITA-PDAU capacity-building activities
18.08.22The IITA–CGIAR Project Development and Administration Unit (PDAU) organized a 3-day workshop on …
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ATA-DRC registers quick wins in three months of start-up
06.08.22After only three months of implementing the Agenda for the Transformation of Agriculture in the…
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IITA collaborates with Waste Museum in Cycle Waste Management Memoranda
06.08.22On 22 July, IITA–CGIAR signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the first Waste Museum in…
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SWEAN concludes empowerment program for women in agriculture
06.08.22The Support to Women Entrepreneurs in the Agrifood Sector in Nigeria (SWEAN) held its official…
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IITA Bioscience Center prepares university students for better science careers
06.08.22Research has shown that many university students in the science field across Africa lack practical…
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Ivan Buddenhagen, former IITA Director of Cereal Improvement Program, passes on
06.08.22With a deep sense of loss, IITA announces the demise of the former Director of Cereal Improvement…
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Tricot: A better method for on-farm crop testing
06.08.22The NextGen Cassava Breeding project, the IITA Cassava Breeding Unit, and Sahel Consulting organ…
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YEASA organize stakeholders’ roadmap workshop for youth investment in agribusiness
06.08.22As part of efforts to create profitable partnerships and support beneficiaries of the YEASA project…
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Funding opportunities: CGIAR Global Director of Innovative Finance and Resource Mobilization meets the IITA team
06.08.22CGIAR Global Director for Innovative Finance and Resource Mobilization, Andre Zandstra, visited th…
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