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Ismahane Elouafi on TIME100 list of the most influential people in the world
16.04.25CGIAR is delighted to announce that CGIAR Executive Managing Director, Ismahane Elouafi has been nam…
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Harvesting Collaboration for Food Security. CGIAR Science Week Closes.
14.04.2511th April, Nairobi, Kenya: After a remarkable week of science, innovation, and cementing of partner…
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MEDIA RELEASE | New CGIAR flagship report translates insights into impact for food systems in crisis
14.04.25Nairobi, Kenya, 14 April 2025 – With food systems under strain from climate change, conflict,…
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Science Week Opens: A Leap Forward in Science Collaboration for Food Security
08.04.257th April, Nairobi, Kenya: Science Week was launched today by Special Guest H.E. Musalia Mudavadi,…
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Science Week 2025 is Now
07.04.25The inaugural CGIAR Science Week gets underway in Nairobi, Kenya. From 7 to 12 April,…
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What are kids watching online? How digital food marketing shapes children’s and adolescents’ diets
03.04.25By Gabriela Fretes and Jef L. Leroy April 3, 2025 What do children and teens see when they…
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IITA partners in launch of Tanzania’s national cassava strategy
27.05.21A large delegation from IITA joined other cassava stakeholders in the official launch of the Nati…
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IITA holds Climate Smart Agriculture awareness session for local-level policymakers
11.05.21As part of efforts to ensure sustainability and scalability of efforts to build capacity in…
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NAQS honors IITA with “Service Support Award” for phytosanitary capacity development
27.04.21A long-time collaborator and partner, the Nigerian Agricultural Quarantine Services (NAQS), honored …
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Africa needs empowered youth to keep pace with its population explosion—Youth champions
15.04.21With Africa’s population predicted to double by 2050, creating challenges such as high unemploymen…
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From waste to wealth: The innovation turning cassava peels into a growing new industry
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
To make garri, cassava roots have to be peeled. Traditionally, the peels have been dumped…
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Zambian President commends IITA’s youth-in-ag initiative
03.04.21Zambia Agricultural Research Institute (ZARI) recently facilitated an exhibition program with the th…
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IITA scientist joins advisory panel of Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development
03.04.21IITA’s Director for Eastern Africa Hub and leader for Biotechnology research, Leena Tripathi, has…
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BASICS-II kicks off partnership to promote improved cassava varieties cultivation and consumption
23.03.21SANO Foods Limited and IITA, through the Building an Economically Sustainable, Integrated Cassava S…
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Women in leadership: Promoting an equal future
23.03.21The month of March hosts several gender-based celebrations, including International Women’s Day (I…
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Agriculture PS identifies priority collaboration areas with IITA to improve Tanzanian agriculture
16.03.21The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Mr Gerald Kusaya, has said the Government…
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Crop innovation: Mitigating the impact of the climate crisis in Africa
08.03.21Adopting drought-tolerant (DT) maize varieties has helped lift millions of people above Africa’s p…
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Scaling agricultural innovations to strengthen Africa’s food systems, food safety and nutrition
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Africa’s food systems are at an inflection point. Food demand in sub-Saharan Africa is expected…
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PlantVillage NuruAI app among key innovations supporting poor farmers to cope with climate change
23.02.21In his newly launched book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and…
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The CGIAR GHUs: Making plants and the world safer through phytosanitary interventions
22.02.21Pandemic! That word strikes at the heart of global sensitivities right now. But while most…
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How crop innovation is addressing the impact of the climate crisis in Africa
21.02.21In a just-published op-ed, Martin Kropff, Director General, International Maize and Wheat Improvemen…
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Young Africa Works-IITA commences multilocation training for 40,000 youth
16.02.21The Young Africa Works-IITA project commenced the first cohort of its training program in Lagos,…
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Banana breeding project successfully implements modern track and trace system
16.02.21Tagging products with barcodes for easy price retrieval in supermarkets is now a regular practice…
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Reviving the pulse in food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
World Pulses Day, hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations,…
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