IITA News

IITA Flickr account surpasses 5.7 million views

The IITA image repository being housed on the photo hosting and sharing service Flickr has attained a milestone—it has reached and surpassed 5.7 million views!

Picture of Dr Kenton Dashiell and party being received by the Deputy Governor of Borno State and taken on a tour of surroundings.

NZHF Secretariat assesses the preparedness of Borno, meets with FAO

Ahead of the Nigeria Zero Hunger Forum meeting scheduled for March 2018, Kenton Dashiell, IITA Deputy Director General for Partnership for Delivery, led members of the NZHF secretariat to Borno State to assess the preparedness of the northeastern state towards hosting members of the NZHF.

Picture of Mr Joseph Uponi addressing training participants

AfSIS delighted with ambience of Abuja Conference facility

A delegation from the Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS) has paid a thank you visit to the Head of IITA-Abuja station Gbassey Tarawali for what it described as a “quick response to their request to use the IITA Kubwa facility after a hitch to use a planned venue in town in Abuja.”

Picture of Tonny Omwansa, Director, Research Support, giving the opening remarks at the Intranet launch.

IITA launches new Intranet on SharePoint

IITA officially launched its new Intranet platform on Sharepoint on 5 February as part of efforts to streamline workflows and enhance operations throughout the Institute.

Picture of Group discussions at the FAO Nigeria program framework workshop

IITA participates in formulating FAO Nigeria Country program Framework

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Nigeria has commenced the formulation of their Country Program Framework (CPF).

Picture of Moses Nyine explaining his research in a banana field in Uganda.

R4D Special: Researchers use DNA prediction models to speed up banana breeding

An international team of scientists have for the first time demonstrated that it is possible to speed up banana breeding using genomic prediction models that accurately select banana hybrids with desired traits.

Picture of CIALCA staff share expertise on digital data collection, analysis and reporting. Photo by Marc Schut.

CIALCA organizes Open Data Kit training

Twenty four researchers from across different countries, research and development projects, and organizations attended a workshop on Open Data Kit (ODK) in January.

Picture of The Hon. Olatunbosun being briefed on some of IITA’s activities.

Nigerian lawmaker visits IITA; explores areas of collaboration

A delegation from Atisbo/Saki-West of East Federal Constituency, Oyo, visited IITA on 9 February to seek collaboration and technical support.

Picture of Charlotte Sanginga (left) with Her Excellency, Minister Chantal Safou.

IITA Women’s Group meets with DR Congo Minister of Gender, Child and Family

IITA Women’s Group representative Charlotte Sanginga, accompanied by Valérie Tembo, President of IITA Women’s Group Kinshasa Station and member Michèle Kimpwene Sanginga, paid a courtesy visit to Her Excellency, Minister Chantal Safou and members of her cabinet in the ministerial office, Kinshasa on 5 February.

Picture of Dr Jonas Chianu gives an overview of the TAAT Program

Program coordinator leads stakeholders through TAAT framework in support of the program

During the 3-day (22–24 January) inauguration meeting of Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) that brought together different stakeholders, Dr Jonas Chianu, TAAT Coordinator and Principal Agricultural Economist, African Development Bank (AfDB), provided a framework to support this complex, multi-partner program.