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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

    N2Africa receives World Bank award

    N2Africa has received a prestigious prize through the Harvesting Nutrition Contest, sponsored by the World Bank, which aimed at rewarding agricultural projects around the world  that have bridged the gaps between…

    July 22, 2014
  • Western Africa

    Research article on Yam Aeroponics Technology published in SDI Journal

    On 12 July 2014, an aeroponics research article entitled “Yam Propagation Using ‘Aeroponics’ Technology”, written by researchers working under the YIIFSWA project, was published in Sciencedomain International’s (SDI) Annual Research and…

    July 22, 2014
  • Western Africa

    The new look of the IITA Root and Tuber Improvement Team Center

    The  popular  yam  barn  offices  in the IITA-Ibadan campus have been refurbished, giving  them  the look, ambience and name expected of a building where  good science grows. The new facility will…

    July 22, 2014
  • Western Africa

    IITA’s Genebank gets ready for cryogenic preservation

    IITA’s Genetic Resources Center (GRC) sponsored a 3-week training course at the National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS), Tsukuba, Japan, for Olubimpe Abiola Akinyemi, a research supervisor/ cryoBank officer. She was…

    July 22, 2014
  • Western Africa

    Smallholder groups in Sierra Leone get eleven new cassava processing factories

    IITA with funds from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has constructed and equipped eleven cassava processing factories for smallholder groups. This is part of efforts to support the…

    July 22, 2014
  • Western Africa

    AgResults AflasafeTM team trains partners

    The AgResults AflasafeTM team has successfully completed a 2-day training in Ibadan for its implementers. Welcoming participants, the AgResults Pilot Manager, Debo Akande, reiterated the project’s commitment to supporting and providing…

    July 2, 2014
  • Eastern Africa

    Use fertilizer to boost yield: key message during Babati Farmers’ Field Days

    Inorganic fertilizers have a bad name in Babati and are accused of ruining soils. Therefore dispelling this myth and urging farmers to use them to boost their production was one of…

    June 27, 2014
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    June 17, 2014
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