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According to the latest estimates, 45 million children under the age of five suffer from severe malnutrition, leaving lasting impacts on their health. However, school feeding programs offer hope, as existing initiatives show clear benefits for children’s nutrition, while also providing valuable environmental, social, economic and even cultural benefits. Here we take case studies from school meal programs in Rwanda,

Every year on March 8, the world comes together to celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD), a global movement that honors the achievements of women and advocates for gender equality.   This year’s theme, “For All Women and Girls: Rights, Equality, and Empowerment,” highlights the urgent need to uphold and protect the rights of women and girls worldwide, ensuring their full participation

The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, in collaboration with Tree Aid, played a key role by contributing to the financial flow analysis of investments made to date to fund climate change mitigation and adaptation, and making concrete recommendations, on how to better track financial flows including at the local level. Their expertise identified solutions to be had for a

In Sub-Saharan Africa, women have a triple role – community, reproductive and household chores. With new technologies being proposed that involve capacity-building programs and training, many women are left to handle every task on the farm and their mandatory household responsibilities; they are overworked and exhausted and have little time left for them. As a result, the intended outcomes of

New research highlighted in CABI Reviews suggests that all five subregions of Africa will breach the 1.5°C climate change threshold—the limit stipulated by the Paris Agreement—by 2040 even under low emission scenarios. A team of scientists from the University of Zimbabwe, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Kenya, and the African Group of Negotiators Experts Support (AGNES) conducted a

IITA-CGIAR launched a new knowledge-sharing platform, DG’s Talk, a webinar series designed to strengthen internal communication, enhance transparency, and promote engagement among IITA staff and stakeholders. This initiative, hosted by the IITA Director General, Dr Simeon Ehui, aims to foster dialogue on critical agricultural research and development issues. This inaugural edition of DG’s Talk expounded on the 2024 Global Agricultural Productivity (GAP) Report, which was

As part of efforts to strengthen agricultural transformation in Nigeria, the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency Senator Kashim Shettima will visit the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) headquarters in Ibadan on Tuesday, 25 February. This significant visit underscores the government’s commitment to driving the Renewed Hope Agenda—a transformative initiative led by President Bola Ahmed

Agriculture holds the key to unlocking economic prosperity in Nigeria, and partnerships that drive innovation are essential for this transformation. IITA Director General and CGIAR Regional Director for Continental Africa, Dr Simeon Ehui, embarked on a strategic visit to some agribusiness sites in Oyo State to strengthen collaboration and expand technology-scaling efforts. His visit, which included a meeting with Oyo State Governor, His Excellency Engineer