Post-harvest losses stemming from poor post-harvest handling of their crops is one of the challenges facing farmers in Lango sub-regions in districts of; Dokolo, Apac, Amolatar, Otuke, and Kwania and Teso sub-region in districts of Amuria and Kapelebyong in Northern Uganda. Like their counterparts across sub-Saharan Africa, poor post-harvest handling is one of the main contributing factors to food insecurity,
The IITA-led Zero Hunger Project’s partnership with FGN/IFAD-VCDP is already yielding commendable results with the local production and installation of a complete stainless steel versatile wet hammer mill machine at the FGN/IFAD-VCDP Assisted Cassava Processing Centre in Kwande Local Government Area, Benue State. The team carried out the installation during a five-day capacity development event held at UDECO Fabrication Workshop, Makurdi.
As part of efforts to realize IITA’s Zero Hunger initiative (ZHI) partnership with FGN/IFAD-VCDP on cassava value chain development in Benue State, the IITA Zero Hunger Project team were in Benue State in February on an assessment and training visit. FGN/IFAD-VCDP Benue State Programme Coordinator, Emmanuel Igbaukum, led the Zero Hunger Project team comprising the Project Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager
Tanzanian Minister of Agriculture, Honorable Hussein Mohamed Bashe, wants IITA to support the East African region in cassava, soybean, and banana transformation for economic prosperity. In a meeting with IITA researchers, including those working under the Building an Economically Sustainable Integrated Cassava Seed System, Phase 2 (BASICS-II), Hon. Bashe acknowledged that agriculture was crucial to the country’s economic prosperity but observed its
IITA, in collaboration with CGIAR Excellence in Breeding (EiB), delivered two professional workshops titled “EiB Breeding Scheme Design Training” and “West Africa Breeding Operations” for crop breeders and operations staff from IITA and national agricultural research systems (NARS) in West Africa from 21 to 25 February. The breeding scheme design training aimed to increase the skillset of plant breeders to design
With potato production in East Africa under increasing threat from the invasive and highly destructive potato cyst nematode (PCN) pest, an organic technology developed from banana plant waste material may be the ultimate rescue. Known as “wrap and plant”, the solution involves enclosing potato seed in a thick absorbent paper made from the fiber of banana plants before planting. This
The IITA Gender Science Network (GSN) has organized a webinar series to enhance gender research and its communication and impact. Integrating gender within other (research) domains is a key objective. Therefore the webinar serves as a learning and engaging platform for the IITA community to dialogue, better understand, adapt, and implement new and existing gender initiatives, methodologies, tools, and approaches in projects
The project Building Economically Sustainable Seed Systems for Cassava, Phase 2 (BASICS-II) organized a day-long National Cassava Business Summit towards developing a cassava seed system in the country. The summit was held on 17 February in Dodoma, Tanzania. The meeting aimed to catalyze public-private partnership sector-led investment in the cassava seed value chain, bringing together about 100 participants from the public and