Three years after starting its activities, the IITA banana breeding team based in Arusha-Tanzania has planted its first banana hybrids for field evaluation. While this is a major milestone for the…
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Southern Africa
IITA Board meets in Zambia; deliberates on strengthening institute in midst of CGIAR crises
From 4 to 6 May, the IITA Board of Trustees (BoT) as well as members of the Institute’s Management and Directorate were in the picturesque town of Livingstone in southern Zambia…
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Western Africa
SARD-SC organizes workshop in Cameroon on using IP approach to increase income for maize farmers
Support to Agricultural Research for Development of Strategic Crops (SARD-SC), one of IITA’s projects working to improve productivity and income from growing maize, rice, cassava, and wheat, has partnered with the…
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IITA’s West Africa Soil Consortia (WASHC) project recently organized a courtesy and familiarization visit to the Department of Soil Science and Land Management (SSLM), Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta on 21…
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Central Africa
IITA’s business model for cassava in Cameroon presented as case study at the Burundi Economic and Social Development Forum
Dr Emmanuel Njukwe, Country Representative, IITA Burundi, was a guest speaker at the Burundi Economic and Social Development Forum held at the Hotel Club du Lac Tanganyika, Bujumbura, on 23 April.…
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The Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) project has completely lived through its implementation phases and is on course to be replaced by a new project known as Stress Tolerant Maize…
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The consortium of CGIAR Centers implementing the Feed the Future project Malawi Improved Seed Systems and Technologies received a vote of confidence when a visiting team from the USAID headquarters as…
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Western Africa
Workshop held to discuss options for building an economically sustainable and integrated cassava seed system in Nigeria
In Nigeria, the world’s largest cassava producer, a proposed project, the first of its kind, will develop an economically sustainable seed system for cassava that can grow and supply farmers with…