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This was quite a year and it flew by! This was the year of our 50th year anniversary celebration.
The WAVE project of the Environmental Institute for Agricultural Research (INERA), Mvuazi station and HarvestPlus organized a joint awareness day on brown streak, a viral disease recently observed on cassava, and the production and use of biofortified yellow cassava rich in provitamin A.
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) was recently granted a permit to carry out Confined Field Trials (CFT) on genetically modified cassava (AMY3 RNAi Transgenic lines).
Key challenges to address jointly include fall armyworm, aflatoxin contamination, and capacity building
The exhibition stand of IITA was the cynosure of all eyes at the just concluded World Food Day event, held on 16 October 2017 at Km 28, Keffi Road, Nasarawa State.
Malnutrition causes at least 53% of deaths in women and children worldwide according to the World Health Organization.
Members of staff at IITA Abuja station participated in a tree planting exercise to mark the milestone of 50 years of our existence as an institute.
On the 13 October 2017, IITA Abuja station played host to the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Institute and Benue State government. The Executive Governor of the State, Dr Samuel Ortom and his team were welcomed by the Acting Head of Station, Aighewi Beatrice and the Station Administrator, Olurotimi Famodile.
His Excellency Marcelin Cishambo, former governor of South Kivu Province visited IITA-Kinshasa station. Cishambo has been an IITA partner for many years and facilitated the participation of DRC in the Consortium for Improving Agricultural-Based Livelihood in Central Africa project (CIALCA project) from 2004 to 2014.
