IITA–CGIAR, under the auspices of the IFAD-funded Zero Hunger Project, has signed an agreement with the Togolese government to boost food security in the country. As an update to this agreement, IITA Business Incubation CEO and the Zero Hunger Project lead, Debo Akande, met with the Togo Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development, Antoine Lekpa Gbegbeni the Nigerian Ambassador to
As Africa’s leading partner in research for development, IITA–CGIAR is making significant strides in fostering partnerships with various stakeholders to transform agriculture in Africa. In a meeting on 11 April with the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of Madagascar, an IITA delegation led by the Director of Eastern Africa Hub, Leena Tripathi, discussed ways to develop the Malagasy agricultural sector by improving food
A member of the IITA Youth Agripreneurs in Kalambo has emerged as the winner of the best innovative youth and project award in South Kivu, Kalambo. The award ceremony, which was part of the women’s entrepreneurship fair, recorded a massive turnout of women entrepreneurs from all sectors of the economy. Seven IYA Kalambo agripreneurs who were beneficiaries of the Sustainable
IITA–CGIAR won the overall best booth and the best booth under the research institutes and organizations category during the 2023 National Innovation Week held from 24 to 28 April in Tanzania’s capital, Dodoma. The Institute beat 84 other exhibitors, including NGOs, private- and public-sector enterprises across multiple sectors operating in the country. The National Innovation Exhibition is the platform that hosts
With the high cost of fertilizers, bio-stimulants are becoming an affordable source for increasing farmers’ productivity. They are also known to enhance nutrition efficiency, abiotic stress tolerance, and the quality of crops while preserving the environment. A Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation team—Senior Program Officer Dr Lakshmi Manavalan, Program Officer Dr Jeff Ehlers, and Crops Research and Development Director Dr Renée Lafitte—visited IITA–CGIAR Ibadan
IITA–CGIAR, in collaboration with the National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC) and Catholic Relief Services (CRS), launched a cassava seed quality self-compliance reporting module on its SeedTracker platform in Abuja on 3 April. This new module enables cassava seed entrepreneurs (CSEs) to report on the quality and condition of seed production fields. The three Institutions are collaborating under the BASICS project,
Leading research portal, Research.com, publishes annual rankings in multiple fields of science, including plant science and agronomy. The platform recently released the ranking of best scientists in 2022, with four IITA–CGIAR scientists appearing on the list. IITA Interim Director General Bernard Vanlauwe, Plant Pathologist Ranajit Bandyopadhyay, Maize Breeder Abebe Menkir, and DG Emeritus Nteranya Sanginga were all listed on the latest ranking based on metrics
The USAID-funded “Great Lakes Accelerated Innovation Delivery Initiative Rapid Delivery Hub” (AID-I GLR) harnesses the partnership with innovations development actors, the private sector, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations to deliver agricultural and nutritional practices and technologies to hundred thousand of farming households in Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Despite the abundance of agricultural and nutritional practices