Nodumax set for full production despite the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting global food systems, disrupting regional agricultural value chains, and posing risks to household food security.
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Turning waste into wealth: a new project by IITA and ETH
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) along with ETH Zurich, a Swiss university, co-manage the Rural‒Urban Nexus, establishing a nutrient loop to improve the city-region food system resilience (RUNRES) project.
IITA News: 1 – 5 June 2020 (No. 2540)
IITA partners with Mastercard Foundation in Nigeria to implement Young Africa Works
Lagos, Nigeria 16 June, 2020 – The International Institute of Topical Agriculture (IITA), through its Youth in Agribusiness office, is partnering with the Mastercard Foundation in Nigeria to implement the Young Africa Works strategy.
IITA celebrates World Environment Day
To celebrate this year’s World Environment Day, the CGIAR-IITA Forest Center, Corporate Services Directorate, and Communication Office organized a virtual event on 5 June as part of activities to create awareness and action for protecting the environment.
Middlemen play a vital role in strengthening Ugandan coffee value chain, study finds
In many countries in Africa, middlemen are often perceived as the “bad guys” out to exploit and defraud farmers.
PUBLICATIONS UPDATE (April 1 – 30, 2020)
NOTE: Highlighted- indicates author with IITA affiliation. Beall’s List - indicates predatory scholarly open-access journals and publishers. Listed in order of Impact Factor (2018) Publication Details Title: Willingness to pay for weather index-based insurance in semi-subsistence agriculture: evidence from northern Togo Author: Ali, E., Egbendewe, A. Y., Abdoulaye, T., & Sarpong, D. B. Source: Climate … Continue reading PUBLICATIONS UPDATE (April 1 – 30, 2020)
IITA alumnus named 2020 World Food Prize Laureate!
The World Food Prize Foundation, on 11 June, announced leading soil scientist and IITA alumnus Dr Rattan Lal, as the 50th World Food Prize Laureate. The Foundation’s Selection Committee chose Dr Lal
Top Tanzanian officials seek ONE-CGIAR collaboration on scaling research technologies
The Permanent Secretary (PS) at the Tanzania Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), Ms Dorothy Mwaluko, has identified the scaling up of innovative technologies from research to farmers as a major challenge to the growth of the agriculture sector in the country and therefore a priority area of collaboration with ONE CGIAR.
