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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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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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IITA wins prestigious Nigeria Farmers and Agribusiness Award for supporting agribusiness
07.04.22The Nigeria Farmers and Agribusiness Awards (NFAA) has recognized IITA as the Best Agribusiness Su…
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IITA celebrates women as it works towards a gender-balanced environment
07.04.22International Women’s Day (IWD), celebrated globally every 8 March, recognizes and appreciates wom…
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WIRES highlights women’s career development and workplace relationship
07.04.22Women In Research And Science (WIRES), an Employee-Led Resource Group, held a webinar session on …
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IITA partners with NASENI to develop technologies for agricultural solutions
07.04.22A team of scientists, engineers, and administrators from the National Agency for Science and Enginee…
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Madagascar government to collaborate with IITA for agricultural solutions after natural disaster
28.03.22Delegates from the Government of Madagascar, headed by Mrs Fanjaniaina Raharinomena, the Secretary G…
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BASICS-II brings together public-private stakeholders to promote sustainable cassava seed delivery in Tanzania
28.03.22The project Building Economically Sustainable Seed Systems for Cassava, Phase 2 (BASICS-II) organi…
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GSN launches webinar series to promote gender research and its impact
28.03.22The IITA Gender Science Network (GSN) has organized a webinar series to enhance gender research an…
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Research shows material from banana waste can help fight destructive potato cyst nematodes
28.03.22With potato production in East Africa under increasing threat from the invasive and highly destructi…
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West Africa crop breeders boost expertise via IITA and EiB collaboration
28.03.22IITA, in collaboration with CGIAR Excellence in Breeding (EiB), delivered two professional workshop…
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IITA and BASICS-II team hold crucial meeting with Tanzanian Minister on agricultural transformation
28.03.22Tanzanian Minister of Agriculture, Honorable Hussein Mohamed Bashe, wants IITA to support the East…
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IFAD-funded Zero Hunger Project makes progress in achieving its objective in Nigeria
28.03.22As part of efforts to realize IITA’s Zero Hunger initiative (ZHI) partnership with FGN/IFAD-VCDP …
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Zero Hunger Project installs model wet hammer mill in Benue State
28.03.22The IITA-led Zero Hunger Project’s partnership with FGN/IFAD-VCDP is already yielding commendable…
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IITA and Kilimo Trust in the fight against post-harvest losses in Northern Uganda
15.03.22Post-harvest losses stemming from poor post-harvest handling of their crops is one of the challenges…
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Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) in Ghana Disclosure Notice for Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP)
14.03.22Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) is a project being implement in…
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Banana waste, potato’s gain
01.03.22These findings of research led by the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe),…
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STEP holds Agri-competition to attract young students to agriculture
28.02.22The Innovative Youth in Agriculture (I-Youth) project, implemented by IITA in partnership with Maste…
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IITA-Abuja seeks stronger ties with FCTA
28.02.22The newly-appointed IITA Abuja Station Head, Professor Lateef Sanni, on 3 January paid a courtesy …
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IITA scientists promote gender equality through agriculture in new publication
28.02.22IITA scientists, in partnership with more than 55 other CGIAR researchers and partners, have publ…
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