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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
09.07.25-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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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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Solutions in nature: promoting the efficacy of indigenous medicinal plants
25.05.20-
Biodiversity
Over the centuries, earth’s biological diversity has played a crucial role in the development and…
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Introducing West Africa’s largest insect collection
15.05.20How do you catch all these insects? How do you know they are here? Do…
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Turn waste into wealth during and after the COVID-19 lockdown
12.05.20The current COVID 19 lockdown is forcing us to look within for sufficiency. At the…
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Continuing to strengthen food systems in Africa
09.05.20With the global food systems facing a major challenge with the outbreak of COVID-19, it…
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Maize project supports partners in COVID-19 response
30.04.20The long wait for registration As the world continues the fight to overcome the COVID-19…
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Human activities are the no. 1 contributors to globalizing plant pests
30.04.20-
Health
If there is anything the deadly COVID-19 pandemic has taught us, it is that diseases…
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Meet CGIAR-IITA’s women fighting plant pests and diseases
04.04.2011 February was the International Day for Women and Girls in Science. IITA joined the rest of…
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Biocontrol reduces Maruca pod borer population by 85%
03.04.20Scientists based at CGIAR-IITA’s climate change station in Benin are happy with the results of…
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IITA identifies opportunities to make a difference amidst COVID-19 spread across Africa
28.03.20As COVID-19 or coronavirus gets closer to home—Africa, the International Institute of Tropical Agr…
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IITA launches IYPH website
26.03.20By now, we know that 2020 is the International Year of Plant Health (IYPH). Throughout…
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IITA BIP team sets new production per hectare record for yam farmers in Nigeria
16.03.20The Business Incubation Platform (BIP) of IITA has set a new record of 23 t/ha for yam productio…
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IITA-BIP sets record for maize production per hectare in Nigeria
07.03.20-
Food security
The Business Incubation Platform (BIP) of IITA has set a new production record for maize in Nige…
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How wasps are used to control the destructive cowpea pest—Maruca vitrata
07.03.20-
Health
Maruca vitrata, also known as Maruca pod borer, is one of the most devastating insect…
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Banana plants’ defense against deadly wilting disease may be in the soil
01.03.20-
Food security
Fusarium wilt, a soilborne fungal disease popularly known as Panama disease, is one of the…
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Tanzania’s traditional cooking banana yields more than expected!
28.02.20-
Food security
The yield potential of an important cooking banana in Tanzania, known as Mchare, has exceeded…
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Spraying locust swarm is ineffective – IITA entomologist
17.02.20-
Food security
As Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya battle huge swarms of desert locusts, great efforts are underway…
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Cavies are not rats! They’re a source of protein and income – study
13.02.20New research by scientists from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and Wagen…
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IITA partners with Cornell University and University of Ghana to train on Genome editing
12.02.20“History must not repeat itself” is the mantra behind the thinking and actions of development…
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