IITA’s Knowledge Café, a seminar series designed to foster dialogue, critical thinking, and innovative problem-solving among IITA stakeholders, recently turned its attention to a question at the heart of the Institute’s mandate: how much untapped value remains locked in crops that African farmers have grown for generations? The session…
To strengthen banana and plantain production in Nigeria and beyond, Radio IITA, in collaboration with the plantain and banana breeding program of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA organized an intensive outreach program for over 30 smallholder farmers. The training, held on July 25, 2025, is part of the…
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) marked World Pulses Day 2025 by highlighting its ongoing work to develop climate-resilient cowpea and soybean varieties, crucial crops for combating African food insecurity. In an exclusive interview with RadioIITA, researchers discussed the institute’s strategies for breeding pulses capable of withstanding increasingly challenging…
RadioIITA 88.5, in partnership with the IITA Cassava Breeding Unit, is making significant strides in empowering cassava farmers. This initiative aligns with IITA’s mission to reduce hunger, malnutrition, and poverty and enhance smallholder farmers’ livelihoods and families. The third edition of RadioIITA’s impactful farmers’ outreach program focused on cassava farmers.…
Fostering a new era of agriculture, IITA, and its partners leverage technologies to enhance crop breeding efficiency, precision, and productivity; organized a 2-day training for breeders on the Enterprise Breeding System (EBS) at the institute’s headquarters in Ibadan, Nigeria, to align users’ understanding of the EBS tool, streamline workflow, and…
