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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-
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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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Cassava farmers in Tanzania to benefit from new industry partnership with ACAI project
10.05.19At a recent meeting in Tanzania, IITA, through the African Cassava Agronomy Initiative (ACAI) and…
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DG Sanginga graces handover of aflatoxin laboratory and launch of Aflasafe in Malawi
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Food security
During the recent handover of the Aflatoxin Research and Training laboratory in Malawi on 10…
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YIIFSWA-II hosts 3rd Annual progress review and planning meeting in Accra
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Food security
IITA, lead implementer of the Yam Improvement for Income and Food Security in West Africa…
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Lessons from 21 years of breeding Eastern Africa‘s popular cooking bananas
16.04.19-
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Nutrition
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and Uganda’s National Agricultural…
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French delegation explores agribusiness collaboration with IITA Abuja
13.04.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
IITA, the French Embassy in Nigeria, and the French Agriculture Research Centre for International …
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The stories of ‘sorghum’ Agatha and ‘seed’ Mary
12.04.19-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Why linking with the private sector is important for the AVISA project Passion can be…
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New project launched to improve rural livelihoods and food security in Mali
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The Climate Smart Agricultural Technologies (CSAT) project was recently launched in Mali. This res…
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IITA and partners discuss alleviation of agroclimatic challenges in the Sahel
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
IITA-Ibadan, hosted a 3-day workshop on 12–14 March to promote the development and implementatio…
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U.S. Government supports training on climate-smart agriculture for local government planners in Tanzania
30.03.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Morogoro – Key decision-makers and stakeholders from selected regions and districts in Tanzania …
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IITA and Sierra Leone sign agreement to boost national crop production and food security
21.03.19-
Food security
IITA has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Sierra Leone Ministry of Agriculture, …
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IITA celebrates innovation and gender balance during 2019 International Women’s Day
10.03.19Over the past few decades, the global community has made a lot of effort to…
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International Women’s Day 2019
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Innovating for change: Spotlight on a champion rice processor in Africa On the occasion of…
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IITA initiates STEP to encourage participation of school children in agribusiness
01.03.19-
Food security
At the 2018 Africa Food Prize (AFP) ceremony in Kigali, Rwanda, IITA Director General, Dr…
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Major breakthrough for farmers and scientists as Nigerian biotech body approves commercial release of genetically modified cowpea
11.02.19-
Food security
Following more than two decades of research, field trials, and risk assessment by multiple organizat…
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Publication showcases 50 years of IITA’s plant health research
03.02.19-
Health
A new book, titled “Critical issues in plant health: 50 years of research in African…
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Pop sorghum, doughnuts and hammer mills: Nigerian teens see the fun side of agriculture
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If the teenagers studying in a secondary school in Nigeria ever thought that agriculture was…
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Decoding increased disease and insect-pest attacks on crops
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Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ICRISAT reaches out to farmers in four Indian states With an aim to record the…
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Tanzania registers AflasafeTZ—the effective technology to combat aflatoxin
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Health
The eagerly awaited registration of AfasafeTZ by the Tropical Pesticides Research Institute in Tanza…
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