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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
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Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
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Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
16.05.25-
Big data
On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Key to a healthy, sustainable world: Partnership and collaboration in agriculture
16.11.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Is the world prepared to feed nearly 10 billion people by 2050? What role do…
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Global endorsement of CGIAR work: IITA wins Africa Food Prize
14.09.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The Africa Food Prize has been awarded to the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IIT…
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African Agriculture's Future Lies in Cultivating Youth, Not Only Crops
10.09.18-
Food security
By Dr. Nteranya Sanginga Guest column published on AllAfrica. Being able to accept the 2018…
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EAC launches policy briefs on aflatoxin prevention and control developed with IITA
23.08.18-
Food security
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Health
A set of policy briefs outlining key strategic policy recommendations and actions to prevent and…
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Securing East Africa’s cassava
10.07.18-
Biodiversity
IITA is eliminating viruses from cassava germplasm so it can safely be transported from East…
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Reading between the gender lines among coffee farming households in Uganda
02.07.18-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
How can gender be approached in Uganda's coffee value chain? Coffee in Uganda is traditionally…
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AfDB to invest $120 million to boost cassava and others
21.06.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The African Development Bank (AfDB) today said it will invest $120 million in the next…
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GYF and IITA partner to promote relevant cross cultural environmental education in Nigeria
01.06.18-
Environmental health
Atlanta, GA - Greening Youth Foundation (GYF) and the International Institute of Tropical Agricultur…
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New pest identified in West and Central Africa!
22.05.18-
Food security
A second armyworm from the Americas introduced into tropical Africa A new pest—southern armyworm, …
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Banana Breeders Challenged to Breed for Weevils and Nematodes
29.03.18-
Biodiversity
Banana researchers from across the globe are congregating in Kampala, Uganda from 27 to 29…
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Seeds of Renaissance: Changing lives in Borno
22.03.18Reports of a positive impact are being received from recipients of the seeds donated exactly…
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Pressing for progress: IITA celebrates Women’s Day 2018
14.03.18IITA celebrated International Women’s Day (IWD) on 8 March with a seminar held at the…
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Nigeria Zero Hunger Forum suggests actions to end hunger and create wealth
14.03.18Coming from its third quarterly meeting in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, the Nigeria Zero…
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Harvest time Nigeria! Aflasafe moves from research to nationwide commercialisation to protect food from deadly aflatoxin
12.03.18-
Health
Today, Africa’s most populous nation – Nigeria – takes a giant stride forward in the…
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IITA, icipe, CABI: Developing a strategy to combat invasive species in Africa
08.03.18-
Biodiversity
IITA, together with the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) and the Centre…
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Women in agriculture: The extra value we bring
08.03.18-
Gender equality
The women of IITA join millions around the world in celebrating the International Women’s Day…
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Svalbard Global Seed Vault celebrates 10 years
28.02.18The Svalbard Global Seed Vault marked its 10th anniversary on 26 February by receiving shipments…
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New CRP (GLDC) focuses on strengthening whole value chains
28.02.18-
Food security
Over 130 participants from 25 countries met in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to confirm partners and…
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