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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…

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…

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 Nigeriaโ€™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…

Dajie Odok wins Africa’s Best Radio Reporter Award

Mozambique, 23 March 2022 โ€“ Dajie Odok announced โ€˜Best Radio Reporterโ€™ on the continent at the Open Forum for Agricultural Biotechnology, OFAB-Africa Media Awards 2021, themed โ€˜Bringing Prosperity through Biotechnology.โ€™ The announcement comes after Odok was named โ€˜Best Radio Reporter 2021โ€™ 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 Womenโ€™s Group organized a scholarship award ceremony with the theme, โ€œYouth Empowerment through Educationโ€, 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…