IITA’s success depends largely on our partnerships, hence, external capacity building of national partners is very important to IITA. Over the years, IITA has been working with partners to achieve this. Last year staff from the Project Administration Office (PAO) participated in several launching meetings or annual project meetings to train and work with the partners on project administration and … Read More
Training and Seminars
In 2015, IITA focused its efforts on providing training for partners in the national programs, especially scientists and research technicians. Training programs include Professional Capacity Advancement Program, Graduate Research Program, and Short-Term Courses. Table 1 shows the breakdown for degree-related training: postgraduate students recruited (54 MSc and 45 PhD with 62 males and 37 females) and those who completed the … Read More
Scaling N2Africa products through Private-Public Partnerships
Putting Nitrogen Fixation to Work for Smallholder Farmers in Africa(N2Africa) is a project that is working to expand the farm area planted to grain legumes (common bean, cowpea, groundnut, chickpea, faba bean, and soybean) and enhance their yields to improve smallholder farmers’ incomes and food and nutrition security. At the end of Phase 1 (2010 to 2013) the project had … Read More
DeMISSTifying the soybean seed system in Malawi
In Malawi, soybean is the lifeblood of thousands of smallholder farmers. It offers them a myriad opportunities: a readily available market, attractive farm-gate prices, and the potential to improve their nutritional security. However, current production levels are low, averaging less than 1 t/ha. There is minimal adoption of improved varieties and agronomic practices because these farmers, in particular, have limited … Read More
Integrated soil fertility management and coffee-banana intercropping in climate-smart agriculture
The impacts of global changes become more and more tangible, particularly on how we grow food, and governments, researchers, farmers, and other stakeholders are increasingly turning their attention to ClimateSmart Agriculture (CSA). With the rapidly changing climate, CSA builds on three dimensions: (1) intensifying productivity; (2) enhancing resilience; and (3) reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture … Read More
Our Finances and Supporters
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A decade of CIALCA: Lessons learned from integrated systems R4D in the Great Lakes Region
The Consortium for Improving Agriculture-based Livelihoods in Central Africa (CIALCA) emanated from three individual project proposals submitted by IITA, Bioversity International, and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) that were approved by the Belgian Directorate General for Development Cooperation (DGD) in 2006. As the projects were to operate largely in the same parts of Rwanda, Burundi, and DR Congo, … Read More
CBSD in East Africa: The fight continues
Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD) is a viral disease that rots cassava roots and renders them useless. Before the twenty-first century it was largely restricted to coastal Eastern Africa. However, in the early 2000s, new outbreaks were reported from mid-altitude areas (>1000 m above sea level) of south-central Uganda, western Kenya, and northwestern Tanzania, precipitated by huge increases in the … Read More
East African Highland Banana: Saving the future by understanding the past
Banana (Musa spp.) is one of the world’s most popular fruits and a mainstay on the family table along with rice, wheat, and maize. Bananas produce few, if any, seeds and are instead vegetatively propagated by taking a part of the plant—an offshoot or a sucker—and sticking it into the ground to grow a genetically identical “copy” of the mother … Read More
Untangling the coffee (root) knots in Africa
If you are one of those whose day must be jump-started by coffee, then you are part of the millions that make coffee one of the world’s most important cash crops. Coffee is also the second most traded commodity, with an estimated total export value of $19.1 billion in 2012/2013. More than 100 million people, mostly from developing tropical countries, … Read More