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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 and partners launch EBS-Maize Platform to modernize breeding programs
05.05.22A significant agricultural transformation is underway for maize breeders across the globe to overcom…
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GSN to boost visibility of IITA gender-focused activities
05.05.22Following the launch of a new gender research webinar series by the IITA Gender Science Network …
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IITA commences public-private partnership in Central Africa seed sector with IFAD support
05.05.22From 14 to 15 April in Kinshasa, IITA launched the Strengthening the Supply of Improved Seeds an…
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Experts highlight benefits of improved cassava varieties ahead of 2022 planting season
27.04.22Experts from the Building an Economically Sustainable Integrated Cassava Seed System, Phase 2 (BASIC…
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AUC commends IITA’s research activities
27.04.22His Excellency, Prof. Mohammed Belhocine, the Commissioner for Education, Science, Technology, and I…
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35 learn about gene editing and its communication
27.04.22Scientists and communication specialists from various Kenyan organizations participated in a four-da…
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Muhogo Bora Project trains local agricultural officers on management and gender integration in the Tanzanian cassava seed system
27.04.22IITA and Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI), through the Muhogo Bora (Better Cassa…
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AICCRA Ghana to unlock climate-smart innovations to farmers
22.04.22The Ghana cluster of the AICCRA (Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa) project…
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IITA-Mali receives Norad Director General
22.04.22IITA received a delegation from Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) and the Royal …
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IAA takes nutrition interventions to the barracks
22.04.22The USAID-funded Feed-the-Future Nigeria Integrated Activity has flagged off a nutrition campaign fo…
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NIHORT to increase partnership scope with IITA
22.04.22IITA partners with both international and national organizations to transform African agriculture.…
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Silent revolution as farmers attest to the productivity of “chin-chin” yam
22.04.22A silent revolution is happening in Nigeria’s yam production systems. Pebble-sized seed tubers, kn…
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Youth aquaculture enterprise demonstrates profitability in Zambia
22.04.22The youth compact of the Technologies of African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) has the mandat…
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Destiny Edoro emerges winner of STEP Agri-Competition
22.04.22Destiny Edoro, a student of Gbagada Senior Grammar School, Bariga, Lagos State, has won the…
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CSAT projects involve farmers to improve production resilience in Mali and Niger
22.04.22At the beginning of each year, the CSAT-Mali and CSAT-Niger projects hold evaluation and planning…
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Integrated Agriculture Activity honors 169 stakeholders on World Agriculture Day
12.04.22USAID-funded Feed the Future Nigeria Integrated Agriculture Activity (IAA) implemented by IITA and…
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IITA researchers to develop innovations for cassava production using end-user information
12.04.22Esther Oluwatosin Obafunsho, a young female researcher, recently led IITA’s gender and research t…
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IITA management engages new UI Vice-Chancellor on first visit
12.04.22An IITA management delegation paid a courtesy visit to the newly appointed Vice-Chancellor of the …
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