IITA and AGROBIOTEC Lab in Bujumbura, Burundi, organized a hands-on training for field technicians in DR Congo on post-flask management of tissue culture banana on 22-26 June. The training was organized…
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Western Africa
Why go Open Access… Excerpts from a discussion with Martin Mueller, E-Research Coordinator and Database and Knowledge Manager
Should the rest of the world have unlimited, free, and unrestricted access to findings from our research through the Internet? What would be the implications for IITA and its science? The…
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Eastern Africa
From research plots to farmers’ fields: Africa RISING – NAFAKA project partners plan scaling up of improved crop varieties
Partners implementing activities under the Africa RISING – NAFAKA scaling project held their first annual review and planning meeting 8-10 July, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where they discussed effective ways of scaling up…
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Yam plantlets at the aeroponics screen house are growing at an exponential rate after being exposed to sunlight! Also, vines pruned from the aeroponics system and planted into soil are producing…
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Last month, IITA Director General Nteranya Sanginga, led a delegation to the German embassy in Uganda where he requested the German Government’s support in promoting IITA’s work. This visit followed the…
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Western Africa
IFAD representative visits IITA to review activities of the ongoing HQCF value chain project
Nearly eighteen months ago, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) launched the IITA-led High Quality Cassava Flour (HQCF) value chain project which aims at improving the livelihoods and food security…
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The newly appointed Executive Director of the Economic Social Research Forum (ESRF), one of the leading policy think tanks in Tanzania, recently visited IITA at its East Africa Hub in Dar…
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Managing complex partnerships to deliver innovative integrated solutions to help smallholder farmers to increase their production and move out of hunger and poverty has not been as trouble-free as a walk…