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Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General, Named to Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leaders List
19.09.25Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders list. Now…
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IITA-CGIAR scientist named one of Africa Food Prize 2025 laureates for breakthrough in cassava and yam seed systems
04.09.25Ibadan, Nigeria – IITA–CGIAR proudly celebrates the recognition of Dr Mercy Diebiru-Ojo as o…
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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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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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Project to develop Aflasafe technology that controls deadly aflatoxin in Uganda launched
23.08.20Kampala, Uganda – The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the National Agr…
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IITA scientists spearhead efforts to save East Africa’s potatoes from a new pest threat
29.07.20Scientists at CGIAR-IITA, working with the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (…
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IITA and Bayer launch modern breeding project
20.07.20Yield improvement of important African food crops will get a boost with the launch of…
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Science-based policies can unlock Africa’s access to genome-edited crop varieties
12.07.20CGIAR-IITA head of plant biotechnology Leena Tripathi has made an impassioned plea for genome editin…
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IITA launches Agribusiness Training Program for secondary schools in Oyo State
08.07.20The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), through a new initiative known as the S…
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Artificial intelligence: A game-changer for agriculture in Africa
04.07.20CGIAR-IITA plant health scientist James Legg was a recent guest on Plantopia, a podcast series t…
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IITA releases 10-year strategy for managing invasive species in Africa
04.07.20Prevention, early detection and control make up the three-pronged approach that Africa is taking on…
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IITA partners with Mastercard Foundation in Nigeria to implement Young Africa Works
16.06.20Lagos, Nigeria 16 June, 2020 – The International Institute of Topical Agriculture (IITA), through…
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IITA alumnus named 2020 World Food Prize Laureate!
13.06.20The World Food Prize Foundation, on 11 June, announced leading soil scientist and IITA alumnus Dr…
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Top Tanzanian officials seek ONE-CGIAR collaboration on scaling research technologies
13.06.20The Permanent Secretary (PS) at the Tanzania Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), Ms Dorothy Mwaluko, ha…
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COVID19 – Work in shifts, researchers advise yam seed producers and farmers
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To reduce the spread of COVID-19, governments all over the world have instituted specific measures …
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GreenPass puts germplasm distribution in the fast lane
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The crop diversity in CGIAR’s international genebanks continues to be in great demand. That’s mu…
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IITA scientist develops a cheaper and faster tool for identifying whiteflies
27.05.20-
Food security
A CGIAR-IITA scientist has developed a more cost and time effective molecular diagnostic tool that…
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