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 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.…
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…
