Senegal has a population of over 6 million people predominantly producing groundnut each year. The restrictions placed on the export of the crop to Europe, the traditional trade partner, have significantly hurt potential earnings as Senegalese groundnut could not…
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New project launched to address impacts of climate change and variability in cocoa-based farming systems
In Ghana, the world’s second largest exporter of cocoa, a significant impact on smallholder farming in the cocoa belt has been projected from the trend in climate change and variability. To forestall this, CGIAR through its global Climate Change,…
On 30 April, Lauren Good, the new Senior Program Officer from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation overseeing YIIFSWA, visited with the project implementers at IITA-Headquarters in Ibadan. Dr Good spent a day with YIIFSWA’s core team to learn…
Dr David Bergvinson, Director General of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid-Tropics (ICRISAT), visited IITA Kano station on 28 April to discuss further the prospects of scaling out improved agricultural technologies in Northern Nigeria and expanding the…
Western Africa
IITA Cassava Weed Management Project holds Annual Review & Work Planning Meeting in Ibadan
Researchers, policymakers, and farmers working under the Cassava Weed Management Project met at IITA, Ibadan, 29-30 April, to review achievements made by the project in 2014 and to plan for 2015. The meeting had 11 presentations covering the activities…
Western Africa
SARD-SC organizes workshop in Cameroon on using IP approach to increase income for maize farmers
Support to Agricultural Research for Development of Strategic Crops (SARD-SC), one of IITA’s projects working to improve productivity and income from growing maize, rice, cassava, and wheat, has partnered with the Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD) and…
IITA’s West Africa Soil Consortia (WASHC) project recently organized a courtesy and familiarization visit to the Department of Soil Science and Land Management (SSLM), Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta on 21 April. The WASHC team was led by Dr…
The Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) project has completely lived through its implementation phases and is on course to be replaced by a new project known as Stress Tolerant Maize for Africa (STMA). From 2016 onwards, DTMA will…