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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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  • 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
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    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
  • Central Africa

    IITA Kalambo moves from paper to electronic survey

    The socioeconomic unit of IITA-Kalambo, in collaboration with colleagues from Nairobi-Kenya, Uganda, and HQ-Ibadan, organized an 8-day training on 1-11 September on the use of e.survey tools (tablets) to conduct household…

    October 30, 2014
  • Central Africa

    Visiting USAID and AGRA teams praise IITA initiatives and facilities in DRC

    I the week of 7 September,a two-person team from USAID and AGRA visited IITA–Kalambo station to learn more about the agricultural development activities going on there and to explore areas of…

    October 30, 2014
  • Western Africa

    SARD-SC maize project introduces problem-solving agronomic options in Ghana

    In view of the low productivity of maize in Ghana, the SARD-SC maize project in April, adopted the Participatory Research and Extension Approach (PREA) on innovation platforms to foster interaction among…

    September 9, 2014
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