The IITA Cassava Monitoring Survey (CMS) project, designed to study the adoption rate and diffusion patterns of improved cassava varieties in Nigeria, successfully conducted a training workshop in Ibadan on 20-22 May for the 60 enumerators on contract to…
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Eighteen trainees drawn from various sectors in Nigeria, DR Congo, Ghana, Malawi, and Rwanda have successfully completed a training course on Geographical Information System (GIS) in Ibadan conducted by the IITA Geo-Spatial Laboratory with the support of the Capacity Development…
Every season, farmers assume the responsibility for providing food for the world’s population. They do this amid various challenges related to pests and diseases, soil infertility, low yield, drought, lack of credit, and many others. The situation is worse…
Western Africa
Senegalese stakeholders adopt “Aflasafe SN01” in national strategy to revive groundnut exports
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…
Western Africa
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…