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Malinyi District Commissioner Mathayo Maselle has praised IITA for providing youth with opportunities in agribusiness through capacity building and empowerment after visiting the Institute’s booth at the recent National Farmers Exhibition “Nane nane” held in Tanzania’s Morogoro region. IITA promoted the IITA Youth Agripreneurs (IYA) incubation program, which empowers youth in agribusiness. IYA has trained young agripreneurs across Africa on mindset change,

In line with its founding objectives, the Start Them Early Program (STEP) has continued to create opportunities in the agricultural sector for young, school-age children in three African countries—DR Congo, Kenya, and Nigeria. To pursue this further, the TAAT-STEP project team in DR Congo recently embarked on a four-day visit to neighboring Rwanda, exploring expansion opportunities to reach young people in the

Africa’s growing population, expected to reach 2.5 billion by 2050, is taking its toll on food production and consumption. This is a major source of concern for governments across the continent. Despite rich biodiversity and excellent potential for self-sufficiency in food production, several challenges, such as land degradation, climate change, lack of access to fertilizers, poor agricultural infrastructure, banditry, and

Former Nigerian President and IITA–CGIAR Goodwill Ambassador, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, recently visited Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Félix Tshisekedi on 22-24 August 2022, at the presidential palace “Cité de l’OUA”. Their discussions covered high-profile themes, including the Agenda for the Agricultural Transformation of the Democratic Republic of Congo (ATA-DRC), an initiative of the Head of State, which the Ministry of Agriculture

Stakeholders in African agriculture have hailed the string of remarkable achievements recorded by its Feed Africa flagship programme, the Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT). This was made known on Friday at the just concluded Project Closing Mission of the programme’s first phase. Launched in 2018, the programme aims to double the productivity of crops, livestock and fisheries by making proven

The African Development Bank has approved the commencement of phase two of the Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) programme. The Bank Group’s Board of Directors, on Friday, 15 July 2022, approved the release of an additional $27.41 million to implement Phase II of the programme. At the 15 August 2022 signing of the protocol of agreement between the bank and the executing agency

During his recent visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), IITA’s Goodwill Ambassador, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, met with DRC President Félix Tshisekedi in a formal visit on 23 August. The two heads of state discussed, among other issues, the ‘’Agenda de la Transformation Agricole de la République Démocratique du Congo” (ATA-RDC) program initiated by President Tshisekedi under

Before the end of his mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo visited one of IITA’s partners, Centre de Recherche en Agrumiculture (CERAGRU), which has been producing healthy cassava seedlings using the IITA–CGIAR technology semi-autotrophic hydroponics (SAH, ex-vitro) as part of the ATA-DRC program. ATA-DRC emphasizes the seed sector as the starting point for improving production. The program’s