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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
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CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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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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Big data
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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Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) in Ghana: Disclosure Notice for Labor Management Procedures
07.06.22Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) is a project being implemented in…
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Bees: An active source of food and livelihood for man
30.05.22Bees are one of the most hard-working creatures on earth. Bees do so much for…
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Banana improvement project meets to celebrate the first new cooking Banana varieties in Tanzania
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Arusha, Tanzania, 23 May 2022. After a two-year lockdown, an international team of banana researche…
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STIHL and C.WOERMANN partner with IITA to enhance smallholder farmers’ productivity through agricultural mechanization
20.05.22STIHL, a company specializing in agricultural equipment production for smallholder farmers, is worki…
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Cuso and IITA to address climate change in Nigeria
20.05.22Danny Pelletier, Key Program Officer for Cuso International, visited IITA headquarters, with Jame…
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IITA-supported project reduces COVID-19 impact on smallholder farmers in Tanzania
09.05.22IITA, in collaboration with the Alliance Bioversity International – CIAT, launched a project in p…
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ATA-DRC commences with huge anticipation
09.05.22The Democratic Republic of Congo Minister of Agriculture, His Excellency Désiré M’zinga Birihanz…
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Making a millionaire out of a local farmer
09.05.22Forty-five-year-old Rebecca Ezekiel is a farmer in the Song Local Government Area (LGA) of Adamawa…
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AKILIMO App plays critical role in supporting Tanzanian cassava farmers
09.05.22The Research and Innovation Coordinator at Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI) Ukiriguru…
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AUC commends IITA’s research activities
05.05.22His Excellency, Prof. Mohammed Belhocine, the Commissioner for Education, Science, Technology, and I…
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35 learn about gene editing and its communication
05.05.22Scientists 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
05.05.22IITA and Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI), through the Muhogo Bora (Better Cassa…
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NCEEC to partner with IITA on research and energy conservation
05.05.22Representatives from the National Center for Energy Efficiency and Conservation (NCEEC) visited IIT…
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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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