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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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
16.05.25-
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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Decade-long trials prove efficacy of Nigeria’s aflatoxin biocontrol product
29.11.19-
Food security
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Health
An IITA-led partnership has honed aflatoxin biocontrol for sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) for over 15 year…
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IITA launches International Year of Plant Health (IYPH) 2020 at R4D Week
27.11.19With decades of research contributing to the improvement of plant health globally and across Africa…
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IITA Scientist elected to prestigious global science body
27.11.19Leena Tripathi, a Principal Scientist with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA…
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IITA joins other CGIAR centers to provide support to rebuild Somalia’s Agriculture sector
22.11.19IITA and eight other CGIAR centers have met with officials from the Government of Somalia and…
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IITA scientist highlights healthy diets at World Food Day seminar
22.11.19-
Food security
World Food Day (WFD) is celebrated annually on 16 October and dedicated to tackle hunger…
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"Pay attention to nematodes, they have adverse effects on African food security”, scientists warn
07.11.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Although the world has fully turned its attention to climate change and is continually looking…
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Modernizing NARS crop breeding programs for improved genetic gains in 14 countries
01.11.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A course designed to modernize National Agricultural Research System (NARS) breeding programs for im…
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IITA-Rwanda releases a digital application in the fight against bacterial wilt disease in bananas
17.10.19IITA-Rwanda, together with partners, has launched a digital Application which will serve more than 5…
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Cassava and Climate Change: Boosting the IQ of a Naturally Climate-Smart Crop
15.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Cassava is hardy root crop consumed by millions of people across Africa—but largely ignored by…
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Ghanaian farmers can now control Aflatoxin, earn big
14.10.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A study has identified the best non-toxic strains that can limit aflatoxin contamination in laborato…
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IITA research station in Kalambo, DRC to be named after former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo
08.10.19DR Congo President to officiate at naming ceremony and launching of biotechnology lab Today, 8…
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Voices from the field: Fighting aflatoxin in Nigeria
04.10.19-
Health
Aflatoxin cause health and economic problems for farmers across Africa. IITA scientist Adebowale Aka…
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Improved soybean varieties increase farmer incomes by 53% – study shows
24.09.19Without a doubt, maize is the giant of all food crops in Malawi. However, most…
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Scientists show which genetic loci is associated with bunch weight in highland banana
24.09.19Scientists have, for the first time, located the position of major quantitative trait loci associate…
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IITA participates in TICAD 7 in Japan
13.09.19IITA Director General Nteranya Sanginga participated in The Seventh Tokyo International Conference o…
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IITA working on Africa’s first genome edited banana
13.09.19The new frontier for agricultural innovation is genome editing and IITA is already leading the…
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12 years of research on Tropical Legumes: 25 million smallholder farmers now grow improved varieties
06.09.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Over a period of 12 years (2007-2019), the Tropical Legumes projects led to the development…
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Researchers support district experts and farmers in Climate Risk Profiling
30.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The agriculture sector in Uganda is largely rain fed; this includes Nwoya District located within…
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