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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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Improved eating: Healthy benefits of fortified snacks
14.07.21Eating healthy snacks is one way to combat poor nutrition, while legumes can replace animal-based…
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ENABLE-TAAT provides youth networking platform at Tanzania open day
14.07.21ENABLE-TAAT has held the Tanzanian edition of its open day to increase youth inclusion and…
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ENABLE-TAAT partners with banks to provide business credit to trained African youth
12.07.21ENABLE-TAAT is supporting its beneficiaries by linking them to financial institutions that can help …
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Researchers give decision-makers tools for better SAI interventions
12.07.21Africa is a major producer of several kinds of cereals like sorghum, millet, wheat, maize,…
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Youth to contribute innovative solutions to world hunger
12.07.21The World Food Forum has called for the massive involvement of youth in developing sustainable…
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BOWEN strengthens partnership with IITA to promote student and youth entrepreneurship
12.07.21IITA continually partners with government and private organizations, including universities, to adv…
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Agriculture: The key to state-level development in Nigeria
04.07.21IITA Director General Nteranya Sanginga has highlighted the need for state governments in Nigeria to…
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IITA partners with French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to enhance women’s livelihoods
04.07.21On 11 June, IITA officially launched the Support to Women Entrepreneurship in the Agrifood Sector …
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IITA research fellows to partner with national research institutes for development
04.07.21The International Association of Research Scholars and Fellows (IARSAF) at IITA went on a working …
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A machine for making yam mounds?
04.07.21Yam is the “king of crops” in West Africa and one of the most important…
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Policymakers approve Aflasafe testing in Burundi
04.07.21IITA-Burundi officially unveiled Aflasafe by presenting two Aflasafe products—Aflasafe BU01, a cou…
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Banana project applauded for making record progress amidst the COVID-19 pandemic
04.07.21Malnutrition in young children and pregnant women is known to have adverse consequences on their…
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ENABLE-TAAT success story: Mentorship helps beneficiary overcome COVID-19 impact
04.07.21A beneficiary of the ENABLE-TAAT capacity development exercise has affirmed that beyond technical tr…
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Study sheds light on banana’s defense mechanism against the deadly Fusarium wilt disease
04.07.21IITA scientists have identified the defense mechanisms for Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (F…
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IITA signs Aflasafe manufacturing and distribution agreement in Mozambique
04.07.21Food safety took a step forward in Mozambique as IITA signed a Technology Transfer and Licensing A…
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IITA and partners combat poor nutrition in women and children
22.06.21Malnutrition in young children and pregnant women is known to have adverse consequences on their…
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IITA donates elite planting materials to boost FCT farmers’ productivity
22.06.21Farmers in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, received a boost as the IITA-Abuja team donated 330 kg of…
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Educating youth to bridge the protein gap in livestock feed
22.06.21One of the key requirements for healthy livestock is the availability of a protein diet.…
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