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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

    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
  • Western Africa

    Thinking agribusiness along the value chains

    Integrating agribusiness along the value chains could facilitate the adoption of innovations among small-scale farmers and in turn help improve their livelihoods, says Dr Gbassey Tarawali, Representative of the Director General…

    June 16, 2014
  • Western Africa

    Farmers satisfied with IITA-ISMA technologies — study

    A perception study on improved technologies being promoted by the Integrated Striga Management in Africa (ISMA) project shows that farmers in targeted communities where the project is being implemented are satisfied…

    June 16, 2014
  • Western Africa

    African organizations unite to address the threat of a dangerous form of Fusarium wilt of banana

    An  African  consortium of international researchers and growers, backed by policymakers in regional blocs of eastern and southern Africa has declared “war” against Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense tropical race 4…

    June 16, 2014
  • Western Africa

    Capital base of IITA CICS climbs to $1.94 million

    The Staff Cooperative Investment and Credit Society (CICS) Limited of the institute which was formed on 1 February  2004 to create wealth and empower its members marked its 10th year anniversary…

    June 11, 2014
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