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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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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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Researchers use DNA prediction models to speed up banana breeding
21.02.18An international team of scientists have for the first time demonstrated that it is possible…
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IITA and Liberia explore partnership on youth program
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Deputy Director General, Partnerships for Delivery, Kenton Dashiell, led an IITA team to meet the…
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NextGen Cassava gets more support for cassava development
16.02.18Cassava is vital to the food security of millions of Africans who eat some form…
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The first factor for a successful application is obviously that farmers can access and use it,” James Legg tells SciDev.Net
09.02.18James Legg, a Tanzania-based plant virologist at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture…
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TAAT launch signifies new day for African agriculture
09.02.18IITA hosted scientists, technologists, economists, development partners, and program specialists fro…
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IITA and partners meet with Togo president and officials to discuss joint projects
29.01.18The IITA Director General, Nteranya Sanginga, in a joint delegation with the CEO of the…
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IITA/AfDB to launch a bold plan to revolutionize African agriculture
21.01.18Scientists, development specialists, agricultural experts, representatives from national agricultura…
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Africa RISING –NAFAKA partnership benefits over 50k households in Tanzania, exceeding targets
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Food security
The partnership between two projects funded by USAID, Africa RISING, and NAFAKA, and whose goal…
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