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A new special report “Open for Business – Pathways to Strengthen CGIAR’s Responsible Private Sector Engagement,” commissioned by the NL-CGIAR Strategic Partnership brings together experts from CGIAR and the Netherlands to develop actionable ways for CGIAR to strengthen collaboration with the private sector, especially in innovation and scaling. The special report finds that CGIAR already has vast experience working with

An invasion. A war. A pandemic. A financial crisis. All have conspired to put unprecedented stress on global food systems. Ukraine and Russia produce a combined total of 14% of the world’s wheat and 30% of the world’s wheat exports, as well as 60% of the world’s sunflower oil. These supplies are under threat, with Russia suspending food and fertilizer

An IITA management delegation paid a courtesy visit to the newly appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan (UI), Prof Kayode Adebowale, on 24 March. The visit consolidated the longstanding partnership between both institutions as the 13th Vice-Chancellor of the University begins his tenure. In 1967, when IITA was established, Nigeria was in the middle of a civil war. Giving a brief history

Esther Oluwatosin Obafunsho, a young female researcher, recently led IITA’s gender and research team from the Cassava Breeding Unit to conduct fieldwork for a technographic study of cassava users’ activities through case studies in Osun and Imo states in Nigeria. Technography is the observation, description, and study of technologies and their application within a particular ecological, social, and historical context. The

USAID-funded Feed the Future Nigeria Integrated Agriculture Activity (IAA) implemented by IITA and its partners honored 169 stakeholders from Adamawa and Borno states to celebrate 2022 World Agriculture Day. The event in Yola had government officials, dignitaries, and other participants from both states who attended the award ceremony and agriculture exhibitions. IAA Chief of Party Prakash Kant Silwal, who elaborated on this

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is likely to have serious consequences for global food security. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has estimated that if there is a prolonged disruption in exports of wheat, fertilizer, and other items from Ukraine and Russia, the number of undernourished people worldwide could increase by 8 to 13 million people in 2022/23, with the most

It’s clear that the several-sided conditions of crisis that we are living through will be the driving force for further waves of struggle, writes John Clarke With the return of rates of inflation that we have not seen for decades, we have been told that the problem won’t last. The message in much of the media has been that

Monica Kariuki is about ready to give up on farming. What is driving her off her 10 acres of land outside Nairobi isn’t bad weather, pests or blight — the traditional agricultural curses — but fertilizer: It costs too much. Despite thousands of miles separating her from the battlefields of Ukraine, Kariuki and her cabbage, corn and spinach farm are