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News News Archives Subscribe DG receives prestigious award for championing youth in agriculture programs The Association of Deans of Agriculture in Nigeria Universities (ADAN) has honored Director General Dr Nteranya Sanginga with an Award of Excellence for successfully pioneering the Youth in Agribusiness program. The award was presented during the 64th annual general meeting of ADAN held recently in Nasarawa State, north-central Nigeria. We are proud of… Continue Reading Evans Samuel • 3rd September 2021 GHU staff awarded Crop Trust’s outstanding Genebank Team (GHU Category) 2021 Crop Trust and the CGIAR Genebank Platform have recognized four staff from the Germplasm Health Unit (GHU) and Virology Unit with the Outstanding Genebank Team” award for 2021. This accolade acknowledges the overall achievements and contributions of GHU and, specifically, the Legume Seed Health Testing and Phytosanitation” Team that ensured the genebank operations were… Continue Reading Evans Samuel • 3rd September 2021 NARITA hybrids cross borders for farmers’ evaluation in Kenya In improving banana production in East Africa countries, researchers at Kenyatta University in Kenya are now multiplying and testing for the adoption of NARITA hybrid varieties that are high yielding and resistant to Black Sigatoka disease. Banana is the third most important food after maize and rice, with an annual production of 1.5 million tons,… Continue Reading Evans Samuel • 3rd September 2021 partners with other organizations to improve the vitamin A status of Nigerians The Modified Relative Dose Response (MRDR) test is being conducted as part of the ongoing national nutritional survey organized by the Federal Government of Nigeria in conjunction with and other partners. The MRDR test assesses the vitamin A status of people. Participants from Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones were trained to carry out the test… Continue Reading Evans Samuel • 3rd September 2021 Assistant Director, President’s Office, praises research in Tanzania The Assistant Director for Technical Cooperation at the President’s Office, Public Service Management (POPSM), Mr Msafiri Marwa, has commended Tanzania for its research efforts in transforming agriculture in Tanzania. Msafiri said this when he led a POPSM delegation to -Eastern Africa hub offices in July in Mikocheni, Dar es salaam. The objective of the… Continue Reading Evans Samuel • 2nd September 2021 kicks off project to transform livelihoods and conservation has commenced a 3-year participatory research project to identify transformative approaches to indigenous women and young people’s engagement in integrated livelihood and conservation initiatives. The project titled Transformative approaches to livelihood and conservation: Learning from indigenous women and youth—IWY (TALC)” aims to investigate the impact of existing livelihood and conservation efforts on indigenous forest-dependent… Continue Reading Evans Samuel • 2nd September 2021 75 youth-led enterprises adopt value addition in Uganda ENABLE-TAAT has organized an in-depth mentorship and capacity development exercise benefitting 75 youth in Kalangala, Uganda. Many of the beneficiaries are enterprise owners at different levels in various value chains. The learning exercise aimed to inspire the youth to generate income through the various food commodities available under the Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT)… Continue Reading Evans Samuel • 2nd September 2021 Redefining data collection to empower decision-makers to address malnutrition Malnutrition is a challenge in Africa, and the limited availability of data about its severity makes it more difficult to address. Data gathering methods and frameworks are demonstrably inadequate, and failing infrastructure hinders effective data collection logistics. Researchers from , the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT, University of California, Davis (UC-Davis), the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial… Continue Reading Communications • 2nd September 2021 Gender equality can boost food security through sustainable systems The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) researchers had adopted a scoping review in a recently published United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) brief to assess the current evidence on pathways between gender equality, women’s empowerment, and food systems. Achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment in food systems can result in greater food security and… Continue Reading Evans Samuel • 2nd September 2021 New project to improve over 5,000 smallholder coffee farmers’ livelihoods in the Mount Elgon Region In Uganda, the GIZ Employment and Skills for Development in Africa (E4D) program partnered with -Uganda and Olam Food Ingredients (OFI) to improve the livelihoods of 5,000 coffee farmers in the Mount Elgon region of the country. Instead of blanket support provided through traditional service delivery models, the partnership will co-design a suite of scientifically… Continue Reading Evans Samuel • 9th August 2021 1 2 3 … 154 Next ↠ Headquarters PMB 5320, Oyo Road, Ibadan 200001, Oyo State, Nigeria. 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