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Ensuring good quality commercial products

[20 Jan 2013 | No Comment | 785 views]

The Commercial Products (COMPRO-II) project was launched this year in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Nigeria releases Vitamin A maize

[20 Jan 2013 | No Comment | 718 views]

The Nigerian Government has released two new maize hybrids that can provide more vitamin A in the diets of millions in the country.

Tanzania and partners tackle cassava disease

[20 Jan 2013 | No Comment | 1,977 views]

Tanzania’s Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives (MAFC) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have launched three new projects to support efforts to develop cassava varieties with resistance to Cassava Mosaic Disease (CMD) and Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD).

Building African breeders’ capacities

[20 Jan 2013 | No Comment | 584 views]

IITA and the West Africa Center for Crop Improvement (WACCI) have signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at increasing the number of plant breeders in Africa.

Boosting yam productivity in Ghana and Nigeria

[14 May 2012 | One Comment | 1,365 views]

IITA and partners recently launched the Yam Improvement for Income and Food Security in West Africa (YIIFSWA) project to boost yam productivity and double the incomes of three million yam small-holder farmers in West Africa.

Pro-vitamin A cassava released

[14 May 2012 | No Comment | 2,073 views]

Three pro-vitamin A cassava varieties developed by IITA in partnership with the National Root Crops Research Institute (Nigeria) were launched recently by the Nigerian government.

Multi-CGIAR center initiative launched

[14 May 2012 | One Comment | 4,059 views]

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a US$63.24 million fund package for implementing a 5-year, multi-CGIAR center project dubbed “Support to Agricultural Research for Development of Strategic Crops in Africa”.

Plant Virology Symposium slated in 2013

[14 May 2012 | No Comment | 1,494 views]

IITA will host the 12th Plant Virus Symposium (http://www.iita.org/IPVE) to be held on 28 January-1 February 2013, in Arusha, Tanzania.

Reducing crop loss from Striga

[13 Nov 2011 | No Comment | 3,005 views]

Scientists based in Nigeria and Kenya started an initiative against two parasitic weeds that have spread across much of sub-Saharan Africa. The project, coordinated by IITA, will introduce technologies for fighting Striga (witchweed), and Alectra.

Initiative tackles killer aflatoxin

[13 Nov 2011 | No Comment | 2,742 views]

IITA and partners recently launched a project that will provide farmers in Nigeria and Kenya with a natural, safe, and cost-effective solution to prevent the contamination of maize and groundnut by a cancer-causing poison, aflatoxin.