Food safety issues impact consumer health enormously due to climate change and increasing chemical use in agriculture, particularly in developing countries. This trend is raising concern among consumers, producers, and policymakers.
Over 60 young people from South Kivu have been trained in agricultural and agribusiness entrepreneurship by IITA-CGIAR as part of the Projet d’Entrepreneuriat de Jeunes dans l’Agriculture et l’Agrobusiness (PEJAB) project.
Agre Paterne, IITA-CGIAR Molecular Breeder Scientist, joined IITA in 2016 as a postdoctoral fellow and consultant. He has since served in the Yam Breeding Unit of IITA, contributing groundbreaking results in breeding
Yam is an important crop with the largest mono-product market that attracts buyers and sellers from various parts of Nigeria and West Africa. It has become a cash crop and, recently, has been servicing some food industries in Nigeria.
IITA-CGIAR PhD student Michael Landi, with the support of IITA scientists Livia Stavolone, Trushar Shah, and Andreas Gisel and in collaboration with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala
IITA-CGIAR welcomed a US congressional delegation led by Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey to the IITA Eastern Africa Hub offices in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
The Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Geoffrey van Leeuwen, has applauded the Youth in Agribusiness, Enabling the Scaling of Innovative Technologies for Sustainable Food Solutions (YAS) project
