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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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Novel and effective technique to control Banana Xanthomonas wilt is suitable for Rwandan agroecology
15.12.20Banana is a major commodity in Rwanda, used as both a cash and (staple) food…
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40,000 young people in Nigeria to benefit from Young Africa Works-IITA project training program
23.11.20Lagos, Nigeria, November 23, 2020 – In May this year, the International Institute of Tropical…
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Tanzania Agriculture PS acknowledges and lauds IITA research work
21.11.20The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Tanzania, has recognized the importance of r…
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CGIAR Germplasm Health Units organize Phytosanitary Awareness Week
11.11.20As part of measures to address the inadvertent spread of pests experienced with germplasm distributi…
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Banana hybrids can more than double the yield of best parents
10.11.20Hybrid crops are expected to have higher edible yields than their parents, but by how…
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IITA paper on genome editing among most read Open Access journal
07.11.20A paper by an IITA Principal Scientist, Leena Tripathi, on ‘CRISPR/Cas9 editing of endogenous b…
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Stakeholders meet virtually to discuss shared plans for One Health Challenge
07.11.20The CGIAR Two Degree Initiative for Food and Agriculture recently organized an online stakeholder co…
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The rural woman – a powerful force that can drive global progress
17.10.20IITA joins the rest of the world to spotlight the people who feed the world—women.…
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A new digital hub to consolidate learnings from global food legume initiatives
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Nutrition
To enable crop researchers and policymakers access information on the three Tropical Legumes project…
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Hundreds of sustainable and profitable agribusiness opportunities available in Nigeria – IITA DDG
01.10.20CGIAR-IITA Deputy Director General, Partnerships for Delivery, Kenton Dashiell, has encouraged Nig…
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Talking about food loss and food waste with Dr Christopher Mutungi, IITA Food Technology Specialist
01.10.20By 2050, the world’s population is estimated to increase to 9 billion people. To feed…
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Nigeria approves new names for top performing cassava varieties
26.09.20The Federal Government of Nigeria on Wednesday evening approved new names for 10 improved cassava…
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IITA and CIMMYT collaborate to enhance adoption of Conservation Agriculture in Southern Africa
19.09.20Lilongwe, Malawi. The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the International …
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IITA and regional grains body to work towards producing aflatoxin-free grain for health and trade
19.09.20CGIAR-IITA and the Eastern Africa Grain Council (EAGC) have signed a memorandum of understanding…
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New insights to help advance cassava breeding worldwide
19.09.20Researchers at IITA, along with partners from the NextGen Cassava Breeding Project, have uncovered…
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African seed system gets a boost with purchase of 18-ton trucks to ease quality seed delivery to farmers
19.09.20On 7 August, IITA GoSeed, in Ibadan and Umudike Seeds based at the National Root Crops Research…
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Network makes headway in strengthening gender research at IITA
29.08.20The gender science network at IITA has made significant progress in its efforts to enhance…
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Early adopter of YIIFSWA-promoted improved yam varieties enjoys “fantastic” yield
29.08.20Beaming with pride, Chief Joshua Ojedele showed off his 2-hectare yam field cultivated from improved…
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