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Nigeria launches plan to end hunger by 2030

The plan tagged: “Synthesis Report of the Nigeria Zero Hunger Strategic Review” articulates what Nigeria needs to do to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2)—one of the global goals that seeks to “end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture” by 2030. The 60-page home-developed document reflects Nigerians’ perspectives of steps…

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IITA Youth Agripreneurs shine at the 2016 Africa Economic Conference

The IITA Youth Agripreneurs (IYA) in Nigeria wowed participants and other stakeholders present during the session dedicated to youth entrepreneurship in agriculture at the 2016 African Economic Conference(AEC) held in Abuja last December. The AEC theme was Feed Africa; Towards Agro-Allied Industrialization for Inclusive Growth, and featured a session on youth agripreneurship where IYA members,…

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AfDB President: Invest more in youth Agripreneurs; says agriculture presents vast opportunities to make youth billionaires!

The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwumi Adesina, has more encouraging words for youth Agripreneurs. He said that the size of Africa’s agriculture and agribusiness sector, which will be worth $1 trillion by 2030, offers loads of opportunities for youth who have the heart to go into agribusiness. The President of the…

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IITA joins ETS

The Institute has joined the Excellence Through Stewardship (ETS) platform. ETS is a global not-for-profit organization that promotes the universal adoption of stewardship programs and quality management systems for the full life cycle of agricultural technology products.

New book on cassava now online

A new book titled Achieving sustainable cultivation of cassava Volume 1 & Volume 2, edited by Clair Hershey of CIAT, is now available online.

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Nigerian Government approves the ENABLE Youth Program

The Pan-African program, tagged ENABLE Youth, designed to actively engage and create gainful employment and wealth for African youth along the agricultural value chains, has been approved by the Nigerian government. The program concept note, which has now been approved after tough negotiations among concerned stakeholders, was initiated in 2014 during the Youth in Agribusiness…

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Picture of Ylva touring the Agripreneurs’ processing and training center in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

IITA DDG tours Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania

IITA’s Deputy Director General for Research for Development (R4D), Ylva Hillbur was last week on a tour of the Eastern Africa hub where she visited Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania and met partners and staff of the Institute. In Tanzania, the DDG toured IITA’s field sites, offices, and laboratories in Dar es Salaam as well as…

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Picture of Manyong giving children of staff pieces of the 50th Anniversary cake.

IITA holds end-of-year family fun day in Tanzania

IITA-Tanzania’s annual family fun day that brings together staff and their families to celebrate the year’s achievements was held on 3 December. Over 300 people including staff and the family of institutions hosted at the Eastern Africa hub offices including the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI),…

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Goodwill messages

Dear all, Another year has come and flown past. The year 2016 marks an important milestone for me as the DG of IITA. The board renewed my term for another five years and I gladly accepted after some soul searching. During my first term, we achieved a lot together―we saw IITA’s budget increase threefold and…

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Picture of Members of the Next Generation Cassava Breeding team visit cassava trials at LZARDI in Tanzania.

Tanzania to improve cassava in Africa with NextGen Cassava project

Tanzania recently became a partner of the Next Generation Cassava Breeding project (NextGen), joining Nigeria and Uganda in the global effort to improve cassava breeding in sub-Saharan Africa. This partnership is expected to enhance the project’s efforts to improve livelihoods for cassava farmers in Africa. “Partnering with NextGen should help us develop tools to address…

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