IITA News no 2596 Archives

IITA Forest Center staff named among top 100 Young African Conservation Leaders

IITA Forest Center Manager and Conservation Biologist, Adewale G. Awoyemi, has been honored as one of the Top 100 Young African Conservation Leaders. The conservationists were selected from 23 African countries in the first-ever Top 100 list for Africa. The award is a collaboration between the Africa Alliance of YMCAs, the World Organization of the…

Credit access impacts productivity among Tanzanian youth agripreneurs

Horticulture, an aspect of agriculture practiced by millions of youths across Africa, has helped improve the livelihoods of a vast majority living in poverty and struggling to find employment. The continent hosts the world’s youngest population of around 200 million youths aged 15–24 years, with many of them in rural areas engaging in farming activities…

Experts share opportunities in the Nigerian agricultural sector

On 5 July, the United Nations Private Sector Advisory Group (PSAG) in Nigeria launched the maiden edition of an agribusiness Master class series, themed “The Business of Agriculture in Nigeria”. The series educates Nigerians on the immediate, mid-, and long-term opportunities for Agri-Entrepreneurship in Nigeria to help potential entrepreneurs and investors understand its broad dynamics…

I-Youth connects beneficiaries to employers and investors

As part of its post-training plan activities for beneficiaries across the three project states in Nigeria, the Innovative Youth in Agriculture (I-Youth) project (formerly known as Young Africa Works) organized a two-day conference in Lagos to link the beneficiaries in the states to investors and potential employers. The conference, which focused on the project’s entrepreneurship…

BASICS II Stakeholders seminar: progress to date and the way forward

On 7 July, the Building an Economically Sustainable and Integrated Cassava Seed System (BASICS II) held a virtual seminar, “Sustainable seed system through BASICS II: Progress so far”, as part of IITA’s West Africa seminar series. The seminar, moderated by Sylvia Oyinlola, Head of Administration, IITA Western Africa Hub, highlighted key achievements of the project….