News year: 2014
The Nigerian National Variety Release Committee (NVRC) has released the first generation of maize hybrids, resistant to metsulfuron methyl herbicide, that are also endowed with resistance to the noxious parasitic weed Striga hermonthica…
An African consortium of international researchers and growers, backed by policymakers in regional blocs of eastern and southern Africa has declared “war” against Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense tropical race 4 (Foc TR4), a highly pathogenic form of the banana Fusarium wilt, previously confined to Asia, but recently introduced to a farm in northern Mozambique…
IITA has again successfully launched a new science facility―this time at its station in Kalambo, by the shores of Lake Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The facility, which has wellequipped laboratories and a crop processing center, was launched on 5 June 2014 by the Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, Hon. Jean Chrisostome Vahamuitsi Mukesyayira on behalf of the President, His Excellency Joseph Kabila Kabangi…
Improved maize germplasm developed by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and disseminated across Africa is improving livelihoods, and the impact on the continent is greater than earlier imagined, according to the President of the International Corn Foundation, Dr Soon Kwon Kim…
Kalambo, South Kivu 05 June 2013 — The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), an international agriculture research center, has created a research center in Kalambo, south Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to support agricultural development in the Central African region. IITA has been working in DRC for the last 40 years…
In a keynote address, Dr Namanga Ngongi, IITA Board member said tapping into the entrepreneurial spirit of Africa’s young men and women was a sure way to move the development agenda of Africa forward in a sustainable manner…
IITA, with the Support for Agricultural Research for Development of Strategic Crops (SARD-SC) in Africa project and Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) are holding a two-day workshop on Engagement of Youth Entrepreneurship for Agricultural Transformation in Africa this week, 28-30 May at IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria…
On Tuesday, 20 May 2014, the South Kivu provincial government held a special Council of Minister’s meeting at the research site of IITA in Kalambo, located 10 miles from the city of Bukavu in Eastern DR Congo…
IITA has signed a partnership agreement to help Guinea in the production and promotion of cassava, maize, cowpea and soybean value chains. The agreement also involves improvement of the livestock value chain, for which IITA will help the country link up with livestock value chain actors including the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)…
