From 4-7 March, IITA hosted the global systems research and development community at the International Conference on Integrated Systems for Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture. Social and agricultural scientists participating in the conference are stressing the importance of agricultural…
May 2015
*blogpost published in CGIAR.org: http://www.cgiar.org/consortium-news/transforming-iita-to-nourish-africa/ My first visit to IITA was in 1982. As a young scientist with the Delft Hydraulics Lab in the Netherlands I worked on my first soil science project that also happened to become my…
“When I went to the US to do my master’s, I was the only black person in my class, the only female, and the only foreigner. And I had two small children. I had a very hard time,” says…
Female scientists win the Young Rice Scientists Award for research on consumer preferences
Two female scientists, Gaudiose Mujawamariya and Esther Leah Achandi from AfricaRice Tanzania, won the Young Rice Scientists Award at the recently concluded Fourth International Rice Congress 2014 in Bangkok, Thailand. The SARD−SC project, funded by the African Development Bank,…
While participating in the Humidtropics conference on systems research this week, CGIAR top managers Frank Rijsberman and Ann Tutwiler found some time to visit IITA’s Business Incubation Platform (BIP). They were accompanied by IITA Board member Roel Merckx and…
African Development Bank, Nigerian Government, and IITA join forces in developing a youth scheme for food security and income in Africa
The African Development Bank (AfDB), the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), and IITA have launched the Agricultural Transformation Agenda Support Program Phase 1 (ATASP-1) today, 6 March at IITA’s office in Abuja, Nigeria. The ATASP-1 is…
Agricultural scientists: Systems research offers solutions to tackling poverty, hunger, and environmental degradation
Agricultural scientists and researchers from over 30 countries met this week at IITA headquarters in Ibadan, Nigeria, for the International Conference on Integrated Systems for Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture. Conference speakers and exhibitors, representing the implementing partners of…
Africa RISING Project leads take part in Sustainable Intensification Cross-Learning Tour
Technical leads of the Africa RISING project in West Africa, East and Southern Africa, and Ethiopia, took part in a cross-learning tour on sustainable intensification from 28 January to 3 February. The event was organized by donors funding projects…