According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, about 45% (roughly 1.3 billion tons) of harvested fruits, vegetables, roots, and tubers are lost annually. These food losses and waste are mainly at the postharvest level of the food supply chain.…
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Cassava is cultivated in 40 African countries, stretching through a wide belt from Madagascar in the Southeast to Senegal and Cape Verde in the Northwest of the continent. Around 70 percent of Africa’s cassava is harvested in Nigeria, the…
Achieving food security is central to a reduction in starvation and hunger as well as attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Food security has been conceptualized in different but complementary ways. The World Bank defined it as a…
…Amidst pleas to eradicate gender bias and inequality that affect women’s growth in the field By Adebola Adewole The world marks today, 11 February, as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The day offers a unique…
Mercy Haruna Wakawa from Borno State, Nigeria, was looking forward to getting a job after graduating from the University of Maiduguri where she studied Food Science and Technology. After so many futile efforts to get a job, and…
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IITA and partners conduct first proteomic investigation in plantain and banana
Scientists from IITA and partner institutions have carried out the first known proteomic investigation into plantain. The results of the study are featured in a paper, titled “The plantain proteome, a focus on allele specific proteins obtained from plantain…
Western Africa
Interview with Sounkoura Adetonah, Gender Specialist, IITA-Benin on female farmers in sub-Saharan Africa (International Women’s Day 2018)
Interview with Sounkoura Adetonah, Gender Specialist, IITA-Benin on female farmers in sub-Saharan Africa on International Women’s Day 2018.…
Today is International Women’s Day. March 8 is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. In agriculture, what does gender parity…