Purpose and Objectives of the workshop: (i) To impart knowledge about major pests and pathogens of maize, risks to maize seed health, seed-borne pathogens, (ii) To inform about measures to control pests and disease and production of disease and pest-free seed (iii) To demonstrate laboratory methods for seed health testing

IITA Facility Management Services, FMS launches Projects Database for effective project management within the unit and the clients.

Towards Food and Nutrition Security for the next Half Century: Challenges, Opportunities, and Strategies. The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is 50 years old this year 2017. The year is therefore Golden Jubilee year for the institute, and is celebrated through two core events. The first event aimed at celebrating performance and achievements of the institute over its 50 years of operation. It also celebrated staff, alumni, partners and donors that have been part of the ...

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and African Development Bank Group to launch a bold plan to revolutionize African agriculture. Scientists, development specialists, agricultural experts, representatives from national agricultural research and extension systems (NARES), and entrepreneurs from the private sector mainly from Africa will assemble in IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria on 22-25 January 2018, for the inauguration and planning workshop of the long-awaited African Development Bank ...

Zero Hunger is the No 1 goal of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) of UNDP. And the goal is set to do one thing. By 2030, no one will go hungry anywhere in the world.

The West Africa Transforming Breeding Workshop is under the Excellence in Breeding platform.

Filmmaker Penelope Jagessar Chaffer was curious about the chemicals she was exposed to while pregnant: Could they affect her unborn child? So she asked scientist Tyrone Hayes to brief her on one he studied closely: atrazine, a herbicide used on corn. (Hayes, an expert on amphibians, is a critic of atrazine, which displays a disturbing effect on frog development.) Onstage together at TEDWomen, Hayes and Chaffer tell their story. This talk was presented at an official TED conference,

The West Africa Transforming Breeding Workshop is under the Excellence in Breeding platform.

DG Sanginga in a town hall meeting with the Scientists, Management and Senior Staff on "Transforming IITA to a Project-based institution.

Alignment of Research and Delivery Towards Agriculture Policies of the Federal Government of Nigeria