Baba Alphonse is a 60-year-old farmer from Ogoukpate Village, northern Benin. He all but abandoned cassava and maize farming were it not for IITA’s intervention.

Three decades of R4D at IITA have shown the effectiveness and sustainability of biological control combined with other approaches for managing insect pests. These biocontrol practices and technologies provide subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa with solutions that are sometimes their only safety net.

Three decades of research and development at IITA have shown the continuing effectiveness and sustainability of biological control in combination with other approaches for managing insect pests.

An 81% increase in farmers’ incomes over the past 5 years from improved yields, better access to farm inputs, and social empowerment are the key results of the PROSAB project in northern Nigeria.

IITA is promoting greater access to R4D knowledge by making use of knowledge resource access, video-sharing, and online social networking services.

A new soybean variety that is resistant to the deadly Asian soybean rust—a fungal disease that could wipe out as much as 80% of infested crops—has been released.

Drought-tolerant maize developed and disseminated by IITA, other international agricultural research centers, and national partners are helping farmers make a profit.

IITA scientists are a step closer to making a breakthrough in developing cassava that is resistant to both the cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) and the cassava mosaic disease (CMD) in Eastern and Central Africa.

IITA Virologist James Legg explains the progress of research on understanding the deadly relationship between the whitefly vectors and the viruses that are causing the destructive cassava mosaic and cassava brown streak diseases.

A partnership of scientists lead by IITA, CIRAD, and Africa Rice are studying how weaver ants, the most ancient biocontrol agent on record, can protect economically important crops, such as mango, from the invasive fruit fly.