The First World Congress on Root and Tuber Crops held in Nanning, China, highlighted the enormous amount of work being done by the research community on these important crops. The World Congress on Root and Tuber Crops (WCRTC), held in…
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Eastern Africa
IITA supports Tanzania, Malawi, and Mozambique in developing Aflasafe to reduce aflatoxin contamination
Team at IITA Tanzania preparing the Aflasafe in the laboratory. IITA has produced and dispatched over 10 tons of experimental biological control products (Aflasafe), which will be tested in field trials for their efficacy to reduce aflatoxin contamination in…
IITA Forest Reserve. Reporting on the strategies employed in rehabilitating and conserving four rainforests in Benin and southwestern Nigeria, Deni Bown, Head, IITA Forest Unit; Peter Neuenschwander, IITA Benin; and partners from CREDI-ONG demonstrated that a combination of closed-off…
Western Africa
IITA-Benin hosts training workshop for the sustainable conservation of endangered primates of Benin and Togo
A big male red-belly holds court and protects his female and young, who sit in the trees above the well and look back at the trainees. A workshop was organized at IITA-Benin on 7-14 January to strengthen the research…
Scientists from the Crops Research Institute (CSIR-CRI), Ghana, visited the newly established Aeroponics Facility at the National Root Crop Research Institute (NRCRI) Umudike last December to view some of the progress being made by their Nigerian counterparts on pre-basic…
Director General Western Africa
DG Sanginga leads CGIAR delegates to AfDB’s Feed Africa planning meeting
IITA Director General Nteranya Sanginga led a CGIAR delegation comprising other DGs from AfricaRice, the International Livestock Research Institute, and the International Food Policy Research Institute, to a planning meeting on 21-22 January in Abidjan. The meeting was convened…
Eastern Africa
IITA clarifies position on 3.2 million Kshs received from the National Irrigation Board (NIB)
Recently a daily newspaper in Kenya wrote two articles that put IITA in a negative light in relation to monies paid to the Institute by the National Irrigation Board of Kenya. The Institute wrote a right of reply to…
The African Cassava Agronomy Initiative (ACAI) project kicked off on 27 January, with plans to improve the livelihoods and incomes of cassava farmers in Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda, and DR Congo through research and tapping into and implementing best-bet…