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…

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 ‘Menu tasting’ 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…

Green Team Celebrates Victory as it Emerged Winner of the IITA 2022 Sports Festival

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Sportsfest Green Team has organized a mini get-together event to celebrate its achievements of emerging overall winner in the just concluded annual Sports festival activities of the institute. Green Team which bagged 14 trophies and 30 medals, was declared the overall winner of…

IITA BIP, Project Scinovate collaborate to scale up local scientific inventions and innovations for commercialization

IITA Business Incubation Platform (BIP) in partnership Futuristic Specifications (FUTSPEC) is harvesting youthful talents to solve Nigeria’s economic problem with the launch of a new project, Scinovate, developed by FUTSPEC to engage, nurture, and showcase innovative ideas in science and technology and turn research developmental process into commercially viable consumables.…

Scientists and Science Communicators Trained to Communicate Genome Editing

    Over 50 Scientists and Science Communicators Trained to Communicate Genome Editing   The Alliance for Science (AFS) in conjunction with the Open Forum for Agricultural Biotechnology (OFAB) Nigeria, Boyce Thomson Institute, and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), has organized a 3-day training for scientists and science…

IITA and Partners launch the Enterprise Breeding System tool (EBS) to strengthen maize Breeders capacity

  IITA in collaboration with Enterprise inbreeding (EIB) and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) has launched the Enterprise Breeding System tool (EBS) to strengthen the capacity of maize breeders and research support staff in key elements of breeding excellence in data management. The launching comes after a…

Dajie Odok wins Africa’s Best Radio Reporter Award

Mozambique, 23 March 2022 – Dajie Odok announced ‘Best Radio Reporter’ on the continent at the Open Forum for Agricultural Biotechnology, OFAB-Africa Media Awards 2021, themed ‘Bringing Prosperity through Biotechnology.’ The announcement comes after Odok was named ‘Best Radio Reporter 2021’ in the radio category at the 5th edition of…

IITA Women’s Group Gives Scholarship to Children of Staff

Ibadan, Nigeria, 15 March 2022 – The IITA Women’s Group organized a scholarship award ceremony with the theme, “Youth Empowerment through Education”, to celebrate and recognize 12 children of staff who emerged winners of the 2021 scholarship award out of the 74 students who participated in the scholarship interview which…

IITA Celebrates the 2022 International Women’s Day with a Walk

International Women’s Day – Staff and pupils from the International School of the International Institute of tropical agriculture IITA joined the rest of the world to celebrate women on March 8, 2022, with a commemoration walk on campus from the institute’s wellness center to the conference center. The theme for…