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Who we are
Our research for development activities have delivered over 70% of the CGIAR's positive impact on the food security and livelihoods of over 500 million people in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.
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“Africa is the 2nd largest continent, but the least industrialized.” - FAO
“75% of the world’s poor continue to depend on agriculture for the foreseeable future.” - DFID
“There are 48 researchers/million sub-Saharan Africans compared to 3,000/million people in OECD countries.” - UNESCO 2005.
“To reduce extreme poverty and hunger, we should produce more food in a way that creates wealth and addresses producer risks.” - IITA
R4D context
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Where we are
Our R4D activities reach approximately 85% of national systems in Africa.
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We work with partners in Africa and beyond to reduce producer and consumer risks, enhance crop quality and productivity, and generate wealth from agriculture.
What we do
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Agriculture and Health
Poor food quality risks health, restricts trade, and reduces labor productivity of millions of people in Africa.
We improve diets, health, and productivity through research on micronutrient content, food toxins, and nutrient patterns.
R4D programs
We help ensure that young and old Africans alike enjoy and benefit
from high-quality, nutritious food and food crops.
Photo by IITA.
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Agrobiodiversity
Africa’s biodiversity is rich but vulnerable.
We use biotechnology and new diagnostic tools for the efficient, long-term conservation and sustainable use of genetic resources of staple and underutilized crops and non-plant organisms.
A genebank scientist checking in vitro culture-conserved seedlings of banana landraces we use in our breeding program to produce hybrids. Photo by IITA.
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Opportunities and Threats
Food security and livelihoods in Africa face many risks.
We examine and analyze the environmental, social and economic dynamics that affect food security and livelihoods, and develop strategic plans to manage them.
Selling maize in a market. Better planning result in
better economic opportunities. Photo by IITA
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Banana and Plantain
Banana and plantain yields have been declining in Africa.
We enhance knowledge on the crops’ agroecology, develop new varieties and improve the quality and variety of plantain-based food products to promote their productivity and profitability.
Harvesting a bunch from an IITA-developed hybrid
TMH3x 9187s-8. Photo by IITA.
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Cereals and Legumes
Cereals and legumes are important to many households in Africa, but production is unstable.
We develop and disseminate improved varieties, natural resource management approaches and new production technologies to enhance and sustain productivity.
A soybean trader at one of the many farmers’
markets in Nigeria. Photo by IITA.
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Roots and Tubers
Roots and tubers such as cassava and yam are produced and consumed by most people in Africa, but face many threats.
We reduce pre- and postharvest losses, increase productivity, and improve processing technologies, marketing and profitability.
Using her mobile phone, a trader obtaining current
market prices of yam through the Market
Information System we established. Photo by IITA.
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Horticulture and Tree Crops
Vegetables and tree crops support the income of Africa’s rural poor.
We develop and promote production and postharvest technologies that sustain productivity and increase incomes in socially and environmentally responsible ways.
A cocoa farmer-beneficiary of our Sustainable Tree
Crops Program (STCP). Photo by IITA.
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Systemwide Program on Integrated Pest Management
Pests cause high crop losses and reduce quality of agricultural produce.
We coordinate and participate in the CGIAR System-wide Program on Integrated Pest Management (SP-IPM) which develops knowledge and technologies that responsibly tackle crop pests.
Cassava green mite being attacked by a predator.
Photo by IITA.
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IITA’s research-for-development model
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