Don’t be fooled. There's NO “six months cassava”. The new & improved varieties released by IITA & partners have a maturity period of 10 – 12 months. To access these improved #cassava varieties, contact Kayode 07066691353 or Patrick 08054536299 or email [email protected]

Affordable farming mechanization 80% of smallholder farmers in Nigeria still use manual tools such as hoes and cutlasses because of the prohibitive cost of mechanization. A STIHL and IITA collaboration aims to change that. #SmallholderFarmers

Contract signing between IITA and Ogun State Ministry of Agriculture for the development and implementation of a digital farmers information management system for smallholder farmers in Ogun State, Nigeria.

.IITA and partners DMSZ and NextGen Cassava conduct training on phenotyping for cassava with #CBSD resistance for INERA-IITA cassava breeding program to enhance production in Ruzizi Plain, DRC.

🇨🇩🌿 Cassava Heroes 🌿🇨🇩 IITA & #INERA research teams need determination & skill to negotiate tough travel conditions in rural #DRC to reach fields of #cassava farmers suffering from the impacts of cassava brown streak disease Keep going Clerisse Casinga & team 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 CGIAR

Find out how the AKILIMO App directly affects the #CropYields of Tanzanian #cassava farmers: bit.ly/3wQXcuA (Image: IITA) IITA | AKILIMO | TARI Tanzania official page

#cassavaroots #farming & cassava #seeds production are lucrative with improved varieties planted with good agronomic practices💰 Contact IITA GoSeed for quality planting materials (Breeder, Foundation & certified) 📧 [email protected] 📱 08054536299 / 07066691353 #business

📢 #Vacancy: We are seeking a Spatial Econometrician Scientist, to play a key role in the Alliance’s ex-ante analysis, foresight activities and ex-post assessment. 🎯 Based in our Headquarters in Rome, Italy. ✅ Apply by 2nd August. 👉 alliancebioversityciat.org/careers

When it comes to good agricultural practices in #cassavafarming, here are things you should know. 👇 AKILIMO #Advisory #tools. bit.ly/3oytAOO

Through AKILIMO we managed to setup GAPs specific for cassava production. The App is advisory platform. By @Mzanda during Journalists training at IITA, Mikocheni, Tanzania.

💥🌍🚜🌿💥Commited Researchers it's almost time. Kindly join and discover...💥🌍🚜🌿💥 IITA Katherine Lopez RTBfoods IITA GoSeed African Development Bank Group IITA-Start Them Early Program (STEP) CGIAR Samar Sheat, Ph.D.🌿 Seed Tracker AKILIMO PlantVirusVectors

While we wait for Day 3 of #AGRF2022 to kick off, now is a great time to look back at some of yesterday’s photos 👇 Explore today’s program: on.cgiar.org/3IaEDH2 #OneCGIAR

At the sideline of #AGRF2022 summit, members of CGIAR Senior Leadership Team, led by the Executive Managing Director, Claudia Sadoff, paid a visit to CGIAR staff in Kigali, and discussed about system's support to strengthen scientific innovations across CGIAR centers globally.

IITA’s research intervention transforming Rwandan agriculture iita.org/news-item/iita…

IITA’s strategic role highlighted during new agricultural season launch in DRCongo Learn more... iita.org/news-item/iita… . #marketaccess #farming #DRCongo #iitastories #Mondayreads

Science is very interesting when it's oriented towrds a goal that serves the community and contributeur to development by provinding an asset and answers to the concerns of peasant farmers.IITA James Legg Clerisse Casinga PlantVirusVectors Dr Godwin Atser AKILIMO

NaijaFarmer Heaps are different from ridges. If you make long ridges rightly, you can get additional yield of around 1.5tons per acre or 4 tons per hectare compared to flat and considering other field/land conditions. Plus heaps make mechanization very difficult.

Australia has an important role in tackling the global food crisis, says ACIAR CEO and Claudia Sadoff in their new op-ed for FarmOnline. Read it here 👉 on.cgiar.org/3h4wDxR #OneCGIAR #SDG17 #TropAg ACIAR CGIAR

#DYK #ClimateSmart potatoes 🥔 & sweetpotatoes 🍠 can be a tropical farmers’ best bet for #FoodSecurity and #NoPoverty in a #ClimateCrisis. 👉🏽 bit.ly/B-ClimateSmart 🔸 Global Agricultural Productivity (GAP) Initiative 🔸 Alliance for Science 🔸 CGIAR Climate Action 🔸 CGIAR #OneCGIAR

🍌🫒 PROSSIVA 🫒🚜 Brand new "Program for Seed System Innovation for Vegetatively-propagated crops in Africa" aims to build functional seed systems thru innovation research 4⃣ Crops 5⃣ Countries 🇬🇭🇳🇬🇷🇼🇹🇿🇺🇬 2⃣5⃣ Partners 5⃣ Years 1⃣ Donor Gates Foundation 🔍 More info soon🔎