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By Mengisti Berihu Girmay May 30, 2025 Agriculture, like many industries, is continuously evolving through technological innovations. One example is precision agriculture—a practice that employs data collection and analysis to optimize the use of inputs such as water, fertilizers, and pesticides based on local environmental conditions at the sub-field level. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the availability of low-cost sensors

On 6 May, the Senior Special Adviser (SSA) on Agriculture and Agribusiness to the Ondo State Governor, Honorable Rotimi Akinsola, led a delegation to the IITA–CGIAR headquarters in Ibadan. The visit aimed to explore collaborative opportunities that would enhance Ondo State’s agricultural sector by leveraging IITA’s research-driven innovations and mandate crops. The IITA team, led by the Director for the West Africa

As part of ongoing efforts to revitalize Liberia’s coffee industry and strengthen agricultural diversification, IITA–CGIAR, through the Seeds4Liberia Project, has distributed more than 267,000 coffee seedlings to farmers across four counties—Bong, Lofa, Montserrado, and Nimba. This significant milestone is a key component of IITA–CGIAR’s broader agenda to empower farmers, improve seed systems, and drive economic growth through strategic crop value chains. This distribution

The IITA Youth in Agribusiness (YAS) project has supported trained participants in Oyo State with input and various equipment to facilitate business start-up and expansion in agriculture. The event continues with similar exercises held in Abuja, Kano, and Ogun. The support items include a solar irrigation system, rotary slashers, a de-feathering machine, improved cassava stems, fertilizers, Garri fryers, water tanks, vegetable seeds,

The 2025 IITA Southern Africa Hub (SAH) Retreat, held at Ciela Pleasure Resort in Lusaka, Zambia from April 27 to May 3, 2025, served as a platform for strategic alignment and in-depth work planning for staff across the Southern Africa Hub. The retreat brought together key IITA staff from Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, and Zambia to define regional strategies, strengthen work synergy

Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobilized global efforts to protect our planet, highlighting urgent environmental challenges and driving collective action. On June 5, 2025, the Republic of Korea will host the event, rallying the international community around a critical mission: to #BeatPlasticPollution.  Plastic pollution has become one of the defining environmental

As the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 62nd Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) and Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) negotiations (SB62) convene in Bonn in June 2025, CGIAR is gearing up to advocate that food and agriculture are front and center in global climate policy discussions. These mid-year talks set the stage for outcomes

Breeding Resources Narrative Report_2022-2024 Editorial, by Sharifah Syed Alwee, CGIAR Senior Director, Breeding Resources Initiative Dear readers, At Breeding Resources, our vision is clear. We support CGIAR breeding modernization by providing high-quality services and cutting-edge tools and technologies to crop breeding programs. Without these, breeding remains a very expensive, time-consuming, and complex science. Operating in silos – where CGIAR Centers