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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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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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IITA and Reeyor fabricate agricultural processing machines to improve food processing
13.12.21Reeyor Food and Beverage Processing Machines and Gelgoog Intelligent Technology Company Limited part…
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IITA to collaborate with other organizations on wheat production
10.12.21His Excellency John Donnelly, the Australian High Commissioner to Nigeria, proposed an area of colla…
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Forging partnerships with NASC to create a sustainable seed system in Northeast Nigeria
10.12.21Farmers need timely access to quality seed and other essential agricultural inputs to ensure optimal…
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ILRI showcases feed production technology as IITA delegates tour facilities
10.12.21An IITA delegation consisting of the Deputy Director General, Partnerships for Delivery, Kenton D…
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Delivering scalable, sustainable fall armyworm technology to TAAT beneficiaries
10.12.21Fall Armyworm (FAW) is a highly damaging pest to maize. However, in the past five…
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