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The African Cassava Agronomy Initiative (ACAI) project scientists demonstrated the use of AKILIMO tools to cassava stakeholders during the Dar es salaam International Trade Fair famously known as “Sabasaba exhibition” in Dar es salaam Tanzania. The exhibition highlighted how farmers could increase cassava productivity using the AKILIMO tools. Sabasaba, a Swahili word for “seven seven” is an annual national holiday occurring

With the increasing unemployment rate among youth in Nigeria, development stakeholders believe that agriculture can serve as a source of alleviating poverty and unemployment, both of which are closely linked. According to a study carried out by Romanus Osabohien, under the IFAD-sponsored IITA–CARE project, youth engagement in agribusiness can significantly contribute to increasing per capita income and reducing poverty in Nigeria. The study

On 20 August, the University of Nigeria (UNN) Alumni Association visited the IITA headquarters to strengthen its partnership with IITA to ensure food security in the country. Hilde Koper-Limbourg, Deputy Director General Corporate Services; Michael Abberton, IITA’s Director for West Africa Hub; and Toyin Oke, Head of Resource Mobilization, Protocol, and External Liaison Office, welcomed the team. Koper familiarized the

Better alignment to the needs and priorities of African countries, demand-driven partnerships to using digital tools to disseminate and scale out research knowledge and technologies to increase agriculture production while taking care of the environment, providing science-based evidence for decision making to increase farmers’ resilience to climate change and addressing youth unemployment… These and others are among the priority interventions

BY KARLA ESTRADA Although women are key actors in across food chains and the global food system, their contributions are often overlooked and undervalued due to gender norm biases and unequal distribution of resources—problems compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus gender equality is a critical factor in rebuilding and transforming food systems, including promoting the adoption of new technologies and

At the International Potato Center (CIP), our work is conducted through partnerships with the public and private sectors. Most commonly, we work through National Agricultural Research Services (NARS) that are affiliated with the host countries. These institutions are dedicated to serving farmers with their expertise in agronomy, plant health, and a host of other topics. CIP collaborates with NARS to build this expertise

Please join World Food Prize Laureates Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted (2021) and Dr. Rattan Lal (2020) for a conversation with Dr. Rob Bertram, Chief Scientist, and Mr. Mike Michener, Deputy Assistant Administrator, of the Bureau for Resilience and Food Security, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Building on their decades-long relationship with USAID and its field missions, the Laureates

The world is considerably less peaceful now than it was ten years ago. Climate change contributes to this negative trend by aggravating vulnerabilities and inequalities of people and communities and challenging the legitimacy of institutions. Fragile and conflict-affected states highly dependent on a climate-sensitive agricultural sector and marked by weak governance will bear the brunt of its impacts. Still, too little is known about which countries and contexts are likely to be affected the most by climate-driven instability and how best to tackle the root causes of vulnerabilities and predict future crises.