Articles tagged with: Research for Development
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.
IITA scientists have devised an easy method of killing nematodes, which cause annual losses of millions of dollars, in banana suckers—immersing them in boiling water for 20-30 seconds!
Commercial production of a simple biocontrol product called aflasafe™, developed by IITA and collaborators, may be the solution to the recalcitrant problem of aflatoxin contamination in important food products, such as maize and groundnuts.
Banana/Plantain Breeder Bi Irie Vroh explains how IITA produces clean planting materials of banana for distribution to partners.
Virologist James Legg discusses how IITA and partners have put in place a rigorous new system called Quality Management Protocol to assure the health of cassava planting material through seed systems.
Plant Physiologist Hidehiko Kikuno describes the new technology of producing yam seed tubers. The technology combines growing vine cuttings on carbonized rice husks and in vitro micropropagation (tissue culture). It is quick, cost-effective, and results in clean planting materials.
David Chikoye, IITA Director for R4D who manages the southern African hub and two programs—the Cereals and Legumes, and the Horticulture and Tree Crops Programs, gives an update on the status of the hub in Zambia.