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New disease-resistant cassava varieties introduced in Rwanda

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Rwandans benefit from IITA Women’s Group scholarship for the first time

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Lessons from 21 years of breeding Eastern Africa‘s popular cooking bananas

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Researchers develop a new way to describe plantain diversity in DRC

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IITA and partners conduct first proteomic investigation in plantain and banana

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Women’s group in DRC press for economic change

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Participatory land use planning is seen as key to ensuring sustainable land use in Lushoto, Tanzania.

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What would ensure the success of job creation in agribusiness in Africa?

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  • Western Africa

    Seminar on corruption-free leadership held in IITA

    More than 100 young people attached to IITA under Nigeria’s National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme, met at the IITA conference center in Ibadan on 28 January 2015 to discuss concepts…

    February 5, 2015
  • Eastern Africa

    Improving agriculture, changing lives: IITA’s 20 years of agriculture research in Tanzania

    In 2014, IITA marked its 20th anniversary in Tanzania. This video highlights some of the activities researchers have been involved in and the successes achieved so far from some of the…

    January 26, 2015
  • Director General

    DG visits IITA Ltd London

    It was a memorable occasion in the history of IITA Ltd, formerly known as Lambourne Ltd, when DG Nteranya Sanginga visited the offices in Croydon on 9 January accompanied by Mrs…

    January 12, 2015
  • Eastern Africa

    Learning Alliance on Climate Change launched in Tanzania

    Different partners drawn from policymakers from central and local governments, national and international research organizations, civil society, the private sector and the media in Tanzania have formed a Learning Alliance to…

    December 18, 2014
  • Director General

    The season to celebrate

    “It’s the most wonderful time of the year,” so goes a line from a famous song celebrating the Yuletide season, with a melody that just goes on and on in your…

    December 15, 2014
  • Western Africa

    New project to boost yam production in West Africa

    A new project that will develop new varieties of yam and enhance its breeding capabilities and partnerships in the West Africa region will soon be launched. Smallholder farmers in the main…

    October 31, 2014
  • Eastern Africa

    Good progress noted as N2Africa Phase two reviews its year one progress

      The partners and project team of the Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers (N2Africa in short) project, met in Arusha, Tanzania from 28 – 31 October 2014, to…

    October 31, 2014
  • Central Africa

    Nontraditional partnership: IITA-Kalambo partners with Catholic Archdiocese for agricultural development in South Kivu, DRC

    IITA has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Catholic Archdiocese of Bukavu in the South Kivu Province of the DR Congo. The MoU defines the framework for the cooperation…

    October 30, 2014
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