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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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IITA kicks off project to transform livelihoods and conservation
09.09.21IITA has commenced a 3-year participatory research project to identify transformative approaches to…
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IITA partners with other organizations to improve the vitamin A status of Nigerians
09.09.21The Modified Relative Dose Response (MRDR) test is being conducted as part of the ongoing…
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Redefining data collection to empower decision-makers to address malnutrition
26.08.21Malnutrition is a challenge in Africa, and the limited availability of data about its severity…
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Research centers call for innovation and stronger partnerships to scale up Africa’s food systems
06.08.21Science, research, and innovation are essential to accelerate the transformation to healthier, more …
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IITA and partner Touton Ltd. consult coffee farmers on diversification strategies
06.08.21The IITA Uganda Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) Team conducted focus group discussions with more th…
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Mechanical legume planter reduces drudgery for female farmers in Mozambique
06.08.21Mechanization has been recognized as an essential factor in agriculture development efforts to save …
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Hope for Tanzanian banana farmers with the official release of new “matooke” hybrids
06.08.21Tanzania has officially released four new, improved hybrids of the important staple cooking banana, …
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New crop-livestock technologies to mitigate conflict between crop and livestock farmers in DRC
06.08.21More than 20 farmers from Katogota and Kamanyola in the Ruzizi plain of South Kivu…
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IITA Forest Center prepares trainers for Olokemeji School Conservation Clubs
06.08.21As the Olokemeji reforestation project swings into full gear, the IITA Forest Center held its fir…
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YIIFSWA II hands over project outputs to GoSeed for post-project sustainability
06.08.21The Yam Improvement for Income and Food Security in West Africa Phase II (YIIFSWA II) project has…
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A life-changing experience with I-Youth – Series 1
06.08.21The Innovative Youth in Agriculture (I-Youth) project has completed year 1 activities across vario…
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IITA and partners organize seed fair in Kano and Jigawa
06.08.21From 10 to 15 June, IITA and partners organized a joint seed fair in the northern Nigerian…
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AGRA Board chair, former Ethiopia PM, and Tanzania President tour IITA-Tanzania
19.07.21IITA-Tanzania recently hosted the Board Chair of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa…
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IITA DG encourages teachers to create agribusiness enterprises
19.07.21The impact of the IITA youth program Start Them Early Program (STEP) is far reaching; it goes…
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I want to become a classy farmer - STEP club member
19.07.21Oluwadamilare Opadotun is the secretary of the Start Them Early Program (STEP) club at Vetland Sen…
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Study identifies new sources of resistance to Black Sigatoka in banana
19.07.21A study looking for additional sources of resistance to the deadly fungal disease of banana,…
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Farmers prefer locally bred CBSD-resistant cassava clones in DRC
14.07.21The USAID-funded Action to Control Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD) in the Democratic Republic of…
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IITA to strengthen collaboration with BUK
14.07.21An IITA-Kano delegation led by Station Head Alpha Kamara visited the Vice-Chancellor Bayero Universi…
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