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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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    Q & A: A decade of improved and climate-smart maize through collaborative research and innovation.

    A ten-year partnership led by CIMMYT and IITA tackles climate-induced risks in maize production, developing and deploying new climate-adaptive varieties benefiting over 8 million households in sub-Saharan Africa. The food security…

    February 23, 2021
  • Germplasm health indexing is a crucial process to select healthy source plants for harvesting seed or preparation of planting material for export from CGIAR centers
    Western Africa

    The CGIAR GHUs: Making plants and the world safer through phytosanitary interventions

    Pandemic! That word strikes at the heart of global sensitivities right now. But while most people are thinking of the coronavirus disease 2019, a.k.a. COVID-19, this post is focused on something…

    February 16, 2021
  • Participants reading the district agrometeorological information brochures provided to them during the meeting in Killolo district
    Eastern Africa

    Project enhances the capacity of farmers to use agromet information in agricultural planning and decision-making

    Erratic and unpredictable weather patterns and disruption of the farming calendars are major climate-change threats to agriculture. Therefore, one project supports farmers in Tanzania to cope with these phenomena by providing…

    January 27, 2021
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    Eastern Africa

    IITA-TANZANIA WELCOMES DR LEENA TRIPATHI AS NEW DIRECTOR FOR EASTERN AFRICA

    IITA has welcomed its new Director for the Eastern Africa, Dr Leena Tripathi, who will be based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.…

    January 12, 2021
  • Farmers in Tanzania learning to cope with climate change
    Eastern Africa

    Farmers in Tanzania learning to cope with climate change

    “Drought affected the crop varieties we used to grow. It also increased attacks by pests and diseases, and we did not know how to manage them. One could plant but not…

    December 18, 2020
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    Nine CGIAR centers come together to deliver agronomic solutions at scale

    On 7 September 2020, CGIAR centers, supported by the Big Data Platform, launched the Excellence in Agronomy 2030 (EiA 2030) initiative during the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) virtual summit. In…

    October 2, 2020
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    New disease-resistant cassava varieties introduced in Rwanda

    Rwandan farmers lack improved cassava varieties that are resistant to the main cassava diseases in Rwanda, namely Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD) and Cassava Mosaic Disease (CMD), locally known as Kabore…

    August 21, 2020
  • IITA-Uganda Field Technician inspects a vanilla plant in a coffee, vanilla, banana diversified farm during a field study
    Eastern Africa

    Validating results of coffee and vanilla baseline survey in Uganda

    Early this year 25 participants from the local government, civil society, private sector, research, and the NGO community came together in Kampala, Uganda, to validate the results of a baseline survey…

    July 3, 2020
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