Having a good work-life balance is very important for the well-being of any organization and its employees. The basic idea is that organizations have a responsibility to support their staff in…
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Central Africa Digital toolsRwanda Agricultural Board commends the accomplishments of the ICT4BXW Project and supports scaling
Since 2018, IITA has been collaborating with the Rwanda Agriculture and Animal Resources Development Board (RAB) to implement an innovative project called “Digital tool for monitoring and control of Banana Xanthomonas…
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Digital tools Eastern AfricaAKILIMO introduced in Rwanda for best cassava and potato fertilizer recommendations
Rwandan cassava and potato farmers face the challenge of finding fertilizer recommendations to generate higher yields and profits. Current fertilizer recommendations are crop-specific but are not tailored to different locations, soil…
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UncategorizedQ & A: A decade of improved and climate-smart maize through collaborative research and innovation.
A ten-year partnership led by CIMMYT and IITA tackles climate-induced risks in maize production, developing and deploying new climate-adaptive varieties benefiting over 8 million households in sub-Saharan Africa. The food security…
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Western AfricaThe CGIAR GHUs: Making plants and the world safer through phytosanitary interventions
Pandemic! That word strikes at the heart of global sensitivities right now. But while most people are thinking of the coronavirus disease 2019, a.k.a. COVID-19, this post is focused on something…
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UncategorizedProject enhances the capacity of farmers to use agromet information in agricultural planning and decision-making
Erratic and unpredictable weather patterns and disruption of the farming calendars are major climate-change threats to agriculture. Therefore, one project supports farmers in Tanzania to cope with these phenomena by providing…
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IITA has welcomed its new Director for the Eastern Africa, Dr Leena Tripathi, who will be based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.…
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“Drought affected the crop varieties we used to grow. It also increased attacks by pests and diseases, and we did not know how to manage them. One could plant but not…