IITA Zero Hunger Project empowers women and youth in nutrition and agripreneurship in Ogun State

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Fifteen extension Agents, food processors, and food entrepreneurs in Ogun State have been trained as trainers on nutrition and agripreneurship, with particular emphasis on the vitamin A cassava variety. IITA’s Zero Hunger Initiative (IITA-ZHI) project conducted the 5-day intensive training in partnership with the Department of Food Science and Technology, Federal University of Agriculture (FUNAAB)) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development Value Chain Development Programme (IFAD-VCDP) from 5 to 9 December at the FUNAAB Cassava Processing Centre in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.

Resource persons for the training included IITA-ZHI Project Training Manager Bolanle Olorode, IITA Food and Nutrition Research Associate Greg Nwaoliwe, and four staff of FUNAAB’s Department of Food Science and Technology. 

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