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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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STEP Agri-Competition: IITA encourages participation of younger generation in agriculture
20.01.22To attract, retain, and change the perception of young people about agriculture, the Start Them Ear…
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IITA Tree Heritage Park accredited by ARBNET
20.01.22The IITA Tree Heritage Park (THP), located within the campus of the International Institute of…
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NEMEDUSSA Consortium Advancing Nematology Education in Sub-Sahara Africa
20.01.22To develop the research and educational capacity in Sub-Sahara Africa in the field of nematology,…
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BASICS-II and AGRA to collaborate in scaling cassava seed systems in Nigeria
20.01.22The Building an Economically Sustainable Integrated Cassava Seed System, phase 2 (BASICS-II) project…
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IITA scientist wins best poster award for gender presentation
10.01.22Devis Mwakanyamale, an IITA Research Associate in the Institute’s Dar es Salaam station, receive…
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IHC visits IITA: Promotes Indian culture
10.01.22The Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Benin, Chad, and Economic Community of West African States…
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Northeastern Nigerian farmers maximizing crop residues with the Stover Crusher
10.01.22To assist smallholder, mixed-crop and livestock farmers in processing crop residues, USAID, through …
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AKILIMO Integration kicks off in Ghana
10.01.22The African Cassava Agronomy Initiative (ACAI) visited Ghana to integrate AKILIMO in the country. …
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CGIAR research team addresses gender dynamics in the breeding process
25.12.21In product development, a gender-inclusive process can enhance equality between genders, and when wo…
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Radio IITA presenter wins media award
25.12.21Radio IITA’s Dajie Odok received an award for the “Best Reporter of the Year” in the…
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“Disease nursery” trials established in disease hotspots to test soybean varieties for resistance
25.12.21Soybean diseases such as soybean rust, red leaf blotch (RLB), and frogeye leaf spot (FELS)…
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Tricot approach: Cassava and potato trials show promising results in Rwanda
25.12.21IITA and partners—the Rwanda Agriculture and Animal Resources Development Board (RAB), the Intern…
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Auto DraftScientists identify markers associated with resistance to the banana weevil borer
25.12.21Scientists at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and their collaborative par…
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DR Congo and donors to invest more in agriculture in 2022 – IITA DG
21.12.21“Telling the stories of the impact agricultural research is making in Africa can only generate…
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UN Deputy Secretary-General visits IITA in Ibadan, Nigeria
21.12.21The UN Deputy Secretary-General, Hajia Amina J. Mohammed, visited IITA headquarters in Ibadan as par…
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150 Farmer Promoters trained and empowered with a digital tool for BXW surveillance and control in Rwanda
13.12.21“It was not easy to identify BXW symptoms on a banana plant. We confused it…
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IITA amongst $100,000 Growth Grant Finalist for the Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge
13.12.21The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) has announced IITA amongst the Growth Grand finalists …
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Research fellows call for partnership and research for agricultural transformation
13.12.21In line with IITA’s goal of transforming Africa’s Agriculture, the International Association of …
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