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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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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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Special Envoy highlights DRC’s agriculture plan during visit to IITA Goodwill Ambassador and former Nigerian President
21.02.22During his extended visit to the IITA headquarters in Ibadan, Special Envoy to the Democratic Repu…
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2021 Dry Season Rice Farming: IITA-NIAA supports 200 rice farmers with inputs
21.02.22The USAID-funded Feed the Future Nigeria Integrated Agriculture Activity in Yola, Adamawa State, on …
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STEP holds Agri-competition to attract young students to agriculture
21.02.22The Innovative Youth in Agriculture (I-Youth) project, implemented by IITA in partnership with Maste…
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DRC to partner with IITA in transforming its economy through agriculture
10.02.22IITA partners with various African governments and the private sector to transform African agricult…
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Improved yields in demonstration plots build farmers’ trust in AKILIMO tools
10.02.22AKILIMO tools’ performance in cassava cultivation has facilitated its widening acceptance and inc…
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Reforestation project brings fire mitigation training to host community
10.02.22As the re-planted tree seedlings continue to grow in the degraded Olokemeji Forest Reserve, the IIT…
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IITA Tree Heritage Park awarded the 500th Level II accreditation by ARBNET
25.01.22The IITA Tree Heritage Park (THP), located within the IITA campus in Ibadan and managed by the Fo…
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IITA Gender Network to create more visibility for gender research in 2022
25.01.22The IITA Gender Science Network (GSN) held its last quarterly meeting for the year on 8 December.…
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Researchers organize PVS workshop to improve African Yam Bean availability and enhance food security
25.01.22To ensure food security and improve the nutrition of Africans, the Genetic Resource Center (GRC)…
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Gender book launch: A significant shift in the drive towards gender equality
25.01.22The past decade has seen a renewed and more comprehensive interest in gender equality and…
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Honda to work with IITA in developing African agriculture
20.01.22The Honda Team from Ogun State visited IITA Headquarters on 8 December to strengthen the partnersh…
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Impact stories attracting more agricultural investment from DR Congo and donors in 2022 – IITA DG
20.01.22“Telling the stories of the impact agricultural research is making in Africa can only generate…
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IITA DG Nteranya Sanginga becomes Yoruba Chief
20.01.22IITA Director General Dr Nteranya Sanginga was conferred with the chieftaincy title of Aare Afur…
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Tanzanian Minister pledges support for IITA’s research and capacity building efforts
20.01.22Tanzania’s Agriculture Minister, Hon. Prof Adolph Mkenda, has expressed his appreciation for the s…
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AKILIMO goes to prison
20.01.22The African Cassava Agronomy Initiative (ACAI) recently organized sensitization training in a corr…
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IITA joins with Tanzania’s Ministry of Agriculture to organize starch stakeholders’ meeting to expand cassava commercialization
20.01.22As part of efforts to realize the national cassava commercialization strategy, IITA, through the BES…
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Minister lauds five-year program in Northern Tanzania for which IITA provided technical support
20.01.22The Tanzania Minister of Agriculture, Hon Prof Adolph Mkenda, has praised the efforts and impacts…
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SEFAN/SWEAN project stakeholders hold roundtable in Abuja
20.01.22A two-day round table of stakeholders in Agriculture Technical Vocational Education and Training (AT…
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