Tanzanian farmers find solutions to salt-affected soils and dwindling rice yields
Featured news
-
The Nation: Why we need to invest in sustainable food systems
24.06.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Imagine going to your local market and finding empty shelves or skyrocketing prices for basic…
Read more -
-
Unleashing Africa’s Agricultural Potential is Key to Food Security
30.11.22-
Food security
Africa is in a race against time on food security and the stakes could not…
Read more -
-
Claudia Sadoff on Transforming Food Systems - Devex COPcast
18.11.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
As part of a series of COP27 podcasts, CGIAR Executive Managing Director, Claudia Sadoff, sat down…
Read more -
-
Opinion: If COP 27 Ignores Farmers, Global Food Security will Suffer
15.11.22We are already living in a world that is 1.2 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial times,…
Read more -
CGIAR Welcomes Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s $1.4 Billion Pledge to Climate Adaptation
10.11.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Low-income country leaders gathered at COP27 have repeatedly called for climate finance to support t…
Read more -
-
CGIAR Country, Region and Funding Partners Signal Strong Support for Integration
09.11.22A united, integrated CGIAR seen as vital to enabling farmers to meet 21st century challenges…
Read more
Filters
-
Open access: Promoting right and accessible knowledge
22.11.21IITA joined the international community to celebrate Open Access Week from 25 to 29 October, as…
Read more -
IITA partners Oyo State government and others to promote agribusiness
22.11.21Under the Oyo State Agribusiness Development Agency (OYSADA), the Oyo State Government collaborated…
Read more -
A new publication in Nature Reports on a toolkit for improved chickpea varieties
22.11.21Nature Reports published an open-access paper on a big plant-genome sequencing study conducted by IC…
Read more -
Improving groundnut farming with early maturing resilient varieties
22.11.21To accelerate the development of improved groundnut varieties, ICRISAT’s groundnut breeding team i…
Read more -
Milking the opportunities left behind
22.11.21Youth migration from rural to urban areas is often attributed to a lack of employment…
Read more -
IITA among $100,000 Growth Grant finalist for Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge
22.11.21The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) has announced that IITA is among the Growth Grand finali…
Read more -
ENABLE-TAAT facilitating youth access to credit through partnerships
22.11.21Budding youth-led enterprises often find it challenging to raise capital. In many cases, such enterp…
Read more -
International, multi-stakeholder alliance continue to tackle banana bunchy top disease in Africa
22.11.21Up to 16 African countries have now experienced the banana bunchy top disease (BBTD), caused…
Read more -
The future of potatoes in Georgia is youthful business
22.11.21-
Gender equality
-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Giorgi Khitarishvili started potato farming with his parents when he was five years old, living…
Read more -
-
C. Woermann Nigeria and IITA-BIP collaborate to launch a showroom of yield-improving agricultural tools
22.11.21On 22 October, C. Woermann Nigeria and STIHL Company in Germany partnered with IITA’s Business In…
Read more -
ENABLE-TAAT launches demo fields at 12 NYSC orientation camps
22.11.21To provide agribusiness support to youth, ENABLE-TAAT has established agribusiness demonstration far…
Read more -
IITA partners with VOWDA to ensure agricultural transformation among women
22.11.21The Voice of Women in the Development of Agriculture (VOWDA), in collaboration with IITA, organized…
Read more -
SWEAN project trains women entrepreneurs in Zaria and Ibadan
22.11.21Support Women Entrepreneurship in the Agrifood sector in Nigeria (SWEAN) has concluded the training …
Read more -
Nigerian government grants internet and community radio licenses to IITA
22.11.21The Federal Government of Nigeria has approved two radio licenses for IITA—an Internet radio licen…
Read more -
IITA-Tanzania hosts Member of Parliament
22.11.21A Special Seats Member of Parliament, Hon. Neema Lungangira, visited IITA at its Eastern Africa re…
Read more -
IITA Forest Center biodiversity watch: The African House Snake
22.11.21One of the vast benefits of the IITA forest reserve is the diversity of creatures the forest…
Read more -
Existing climate strategies ignore fisheries at our peril
22.11.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The most visible and tangible signs of climate change tend to be above water, from…
Read more -
-
A new publication in Nature Reports on a toolkit for improved chickpea varieties
21.11.21-
Food security
Nature Reports published an open-access paper on a big plant-genome sequencing study conducted by IC…
Read more -