These past few weeks have been extremely busy but fun and exciting here at IITA. First of all, we had our Open Day on 16 November. And boy, was that a big shindig! We had almost 5000 thousand guests…
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A group of experts on soil science drawn from all over the world met in Kampala, Uganda recently to push for long-term trials for Integrated Soil Fertility Management (ISFM) in Africa where one of the biggest obstacles to agriculture…
Welcome to my blog! This is my first official blog post so I hope you will bear with me if I do not get this right the first time. Almost a month ago, I – along with several members…
The IITA Southern African Hub was established barely three years ago. In this short period of time, the hub has rapidly grown from eight scientists to 15 and more than 60 support staff. Our goal is to achieve greater…
Through a realignment of the IITA strategy, the Central Africa hub of IITA was formally established in 2012 and provides the opportunity to advance the earlier good work in the Central African region to new heights, in terms of…
Operating from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, the Eastern Africa hub covers eight countries with a population of about 250 million people most of who are engaged in agriculture in one way or another. The sector, therefore, has immense potential…
West Africa region Posted on October 7, 2013 The West Africa Hub made significant progress during 2012 in the implementation of research-for-development (R4D) projects with a broad range of partners working towards the achievement of our principal objectives: Sustainable…