Jean-Gerard Mezui M’ella, IAPSC Director, talks about the important work that this African Plant Protection Organization is doing to coordinate plant protection procedures in the continent.

IITA scientist Thomas Dubois did a SWOT analysis to determine what ingredients are needed for the banana tissue culture industry to succeed.

Molecular geneticist Leena Tripathi provides an update on a collaborative work to develop a high-value product—the transgenic banana.

Kanti Rawal, former plant geneticist, traveled 38,000 km around Nigeria and Niger in the 1970s to collect wild and domesticated accessions of cowpea. The authors tell how they did the same almost 40 years later.

Virologist and GHU Head Lava Kumar walks us through the important work being undertaken to ensure the safe exchange of international public goods among a global network of institutions and entities.

Olufunke Awosusi, Senior Plant Quarantine Officer with the Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS) discusses how NAQS tries to keep out “foreign” pests from Nigeria to protect and enhance the agricultural economy.

Martha Byanyima, the Regional Process and Partnerships Facilitator of CAADP at the COMESA Secretariat, explains how the Green Pass system works in harmonizing sanitary and phytosanitary measures in the region.

A multipartner team of scientists have developed an early warning system that uses cell phones to monitor and track cassava disease outbreaks in Tanzania, and now in Rwanda.

Conserving clean genetic resources for agricultural sustainability and the preservation of diversity is imperative if we want to ensure global food security.

Read how the IITA-Leventis forest restoration project in Ibadan is promoting conservation and raising awareness about the need to protect our forests, especially among the young.