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The International Day for Biological Diversity is an occasion that highlights the invaluable treasures that the earth holds. The 2023 celebration is themed “From Agreement to Action: Build Back Biodiversity” to inspire people to take steps towards preserving and restoring the planet’s biodiversity, exploring the dayโ€™s significance, and acknowledging the…

NAQS Newly Recruited Staff Receive Induction Training at IITA Headquarters, Nigeria

Management of Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service, NAQS, expanding thethe base of its workforce identified IITA as a resource base for building theknowledge and surveillance capacity of its newly recruited staff. NAQS led aone-hundred-member team of newly recruited staff to be trained by IITA GHU on17 April as part of a…

A Zero-Waste Future for Sustainable Agriculture

Waste production has increased with a significant impact on the environment as the world population continues to grow, contributing to climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. This yearโ€™s theme for the International Day of Zero Waste aims to raise awareness of the importance of zero waste and responsible consumption and…

Geographic Information System at IITA: Mapping the Path to a Sustainable Future

World Meteorological Day is celebrated yearly to raise awareness about the importance of weather, climate, and water resources for our planet. This year’s theme, “The Future of Weather, Climate, and Water Across Generations,” emphasizes the need to take a long-term approach to managing our planet’s resources. It is essential to…

Improved Agricultural Innovations: Key to a Food-Secured Africa

As climate change and the pandemic intensify food insecurity and add to food shortages and high prices across sub-Saharan Africa, Simeon Ehui, the 8th Director General of IITA and 1st CGIAR Regional Director for Continental Africa has expressed his commitment towards building on some of the agricultural technologies developed by…

Women and Girls in Science: Toward achieving Sustainable Development Goals

  In celebration of the International Day of Women 2023, theme I.D.E.A.S โ€“ Innovate, demonstrate, elevate, advance, and sustain IITA-CGIAR organized virtual and physical events on 13 February 2023 to celebrate and encourage the girl child aspiring for a career in science. This 2023 theme, adopted to break existing stereotypes…

IITA Managers visit Rehabilitation Center for the Disabled

The Managers Staff Association, MSA of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture IITA paid a visit to the Rehabilitation Center for the Disabled at Moniya, Ibadan, Nigeria, on 14 Dec. 2022, to distribute some food items in celebration of the Christmas festivity as part of their activities to mark the…

IITA Open Day is Back!

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) reignited its annual open-day ceremony on 26 November 2022; it was last held in 2017. The ceremony commemorated the sending-off of the Director General of the Institute, Dr. Nteranya Sanginga, who has been steering the leadership wheel of the Institute since 2011. The…

Farmers to receive Demand-Driven Crop Varieties

IITA Senior Scientist, and the newly appointed Executive Director of the National Root Crop Research Institute (NRCRI), Prof. Chiedozie Egesi, says plans are underway to ensure farmers get more nutritious and resilient crops of the RTB varieties through a proposal for the new OneCGIAR-led crop breeding project. Egesi, who also…

I-House staff receive Training to Upscale their Skills

The International House of International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) also known as I-House hosted some management staff, staff, and guests to a โ€˜Menu tastingโ€™ event to sample their objective opinions following weeks of training of the entire staff of the unit to improve their culinary skills, food presentation, and…