IITA News no. 2587 Archives

IITA holds Climate Smart Agriculture awareness session for local-level policymakers

As part of efforts to ensure sustainability and scalability of efforts to build capacity in Tanzania to respond to the challenges posed by climate change to agriculture, IITA organized a series of awareness creation sessions for councilors and other district-level planners on climate-smart agriculture (CSA) planning and budgeting. The team from the USAID-funded Building Capacity…

Visiting nematologist receives Schroth Faces of the Future Award

Kanan Saikai, a visiting scholar at IITA-Nairobi from the Japan Society for Promotion of Science, working on nematodes under the supervision of Danny Coyne, has received the Schroth Faces of the Future Award 2021. The award is given to early-career scientists to present their research and speculate on the future directions of their discipline. The…

Study shows way to influence youth performance in agripreneurship

To address the challenge of unemployment in Africa, it is imperative that governments across the continent tackle factors responsible for impeding youth engagement in agribusiness. There has been much controversial discourse about whether the youth population surge across the African continent is a ticking time-bomb or a blessing in disguise. A study under the IFAD-sponsored…

How gender norms prevent women from using technology to shell maize in Tanzania

“Shelling maize by hand is an easy task and should be left to women. Men should do tough jobs”, said an agro-dealer from Central Tanzania in 2018 during an interview. Gundula Fischer, a gender expert at IITA, picked up on this topic; her research tells a different story. Fischer investigated the drudgery of maize shelling…