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 instituteโs headquarters in Ibadan, Nigeria, to align users’ understanding of the EBS tool, streamline workflow, and…
ย Access to information on innovation and research results is a key factor for Africa to address the issue of agricultural development and achieve zero hunger. Communicating agricultural information is essential for smallholder farmers to increase their productivity and livelihood. In Africa, using radio, television, and social media platforms to…
As the impacts of climate change, food insecurity, and conflict continue to intensify in Africa, plunging parts of the continent into a severe and enduring food crisis, African leaders, organizations, and global partners have continued to work in response to the increasing food and nutrition challenge of the continent. In…
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 Business Incubation Platform (BIP) in partnership Futuristic Specifications (FUTSPEC) is harvesting youthful talents to solve Nigeriaโs 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.…
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 communicators on Communicating Gene Editing in Abuja, Nigeria. The training, which started on 19…
