The Deputy Undersecretary for Science at the Smithsonian Institution, Scott Miller, discusses the importance of biodiversity conservation and what the Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) is doing in this area.

Ken Neethling, CEO of Biocontrol Products (BCP), the South African company that produces Green Muscle®, talks about this biocontrol solution to locusts and the challenges that BCP faces in producing it.

IITA is part of a system-wide network that protects agrobiodiversity for genetic improvement and food security using traditional and new molecular tools.

IITA maintains the biggest reference collection of insects in the CGIAR. Understand why such a collection holds a place of importance in agricultural research and development.

Nonplant taxa are global public goods that play a huge role in maintaining sustainable farming systems for food and agriculture.

The IITA headquarters in Ibadan, Nigeria sits on about 1,000 hectares of protected agricultural and forest land. Read about the rich variety of life that can be found in this small pocket of Africa.

IITA emphasizes the imperatives of yam conservation for improvement and the benefit of millions of farmers relying on this staple.

Conserving local varieties ensures a robust gene pool of important traits for crop improvement and helps guarantee food security.

IITA and partners will host the 5th World Cowpea Research Conference in Dakar, Senegal from 27 September to 1 October 2010. The meeting will tackle research issues to enhance the profile of cowpea as a viable income-generating and food security crop.

The European Union-African, Caribbean and Pacific Science and Technology Program will support research to improve and promote yam in West and Central Africa. The program will benefit six WCA countries: Cameroon, Bénin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, and Togo.