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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

    IFAD backs cassava flour in bread and confectionery

    The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is supporting the inclusion of cassava flour in bread and other forms of confectionery as part of efforts to improve food security and the…

    August 5, 2014
  • Central Africa

    Agro-processing facilities at IITA Kalambo excite DRC’s First Lady

    Madame Olive Lembe Kabila, the First Lady of the Democratic Republic of Congo, paid a visit to the IITA-Kalambo Station on 7 July. She was accompanied by her children, the South…

    August 2, 2014
  • Central Africa

    IITA does it again! Launch of IITA Kalambo a resounding success

    IITA has again successfully launched a new science facility―this time at its station in Kalambo, by the shores of Lake Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The facility, which…

    August 2, 2014
  • 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
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