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…

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…

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…

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…