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Aerial images detect and track food security threats for millions of African farmers

An early warning system detects and prevents diseases in banana, a key food security crop in Africa. It relies on ...
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Sweetpotato biodiversity can help increase climate-resilience of small-scale farming

Climate change poses a threat to the world's subsistence crops. Heatwaves, which are likely to intensify according to climate evolution ...
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Cocoyam has huge market but few farmers cultivate it

Cocoyam (Taro and Tannia) is a staple root crop in many developing countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Despite ...
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TAAT Excites Beninese Farmers with Pro Vitamin A Cassava Varieties

A staple to about 350 million people in sub-Saharan Africa, cassava, had been declared in 2003 by African Heads of ...
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How BASICS is changing Nigeria’s cassava seed sector, creating seed entrepreneurs

For the past decades, Africa has been grappling with the sustainable diffusion of improved cassava varieties due to a weak ...
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IITA scientist develops a cheaper and faster tool for identifying whiteflies

A CGIAR-IITA scientist has developed a more cost and time effective molecular diagnostic tool that can accurately identify different subgroups ...
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IITA banana research paper in Wiley’s Plant Pathology journal among the most downloaded

A paper published by a team led by scientists from IITA was among the top 10% most downloaded of all ...
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How did an ancient plant from Latin America become Asia’s second-most-important cash crop?

Valued at dining room tables and factory floors alike, cassava is worth about $10 billion in Asia. The continued growth ...
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What’s next for CGIAR?

If you don’t know what CGIAR is, stop reading or ask Bill Gates (“you’ve probably never heard of CGIAR, but they are ...
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Grant will support expanded use of artificial intelligence for crop health

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A research team developing artificial-intelligence-based solutions for diagnosing and managing threats to crop health has received ...
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In the war on emerging crop diseases, scientists develop new ‘War Room’ simulations

Farmers rely on seed systems for access to high-quality, disease-free planting material at the start of the season. Good seed ...
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Lowly camote to save the day – for food security and climate-change resiliency

Camote (sweet potato) chips, anyone?  How about camote cue, or the simple boiled camote? Did you know there is more ...
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Africa and Asia will propel the world’s population towards 10 billion – but are their food systems ready?

Improving access to other key inputs like water and fertilizer, as well as wider technical services such as agricultural machinery, ...
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FoodSTART+ featured in the latest iMPACT magazine issue

FoodSTART+ Principal Investigator, Diego Naziri, and CIAT Market Access Specialist, Brice Even shared how the partnership between grant projects and ...
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University of Florida Researchers Develop Model to Help Keep Crop Seeds Healthy

Working with international researchers, University of Florida scientists have developed a model that will help protect good seeds, which are ...
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Calling On Nature To Combat Insect Pests In Vietnam’s Cassava Crop

"Good bugs, huh?” –farmers and homeowners alike all too often give a blank stare when questioned about the beneficial insects ...
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World Potato Congress highlights scientific advances

Tubers were the talk of the town in Cusco, Peru during the week of May 27, when the 10th World ...
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Tanzania: Banana Experts Meet to Discuss Hybrid Varieties

An international project whose goal is to boost banana production in Tanzania and Uganda brings together a team of international ...
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New mobile app diagnoses crop diseases in the field and alerts rural farmers

Researchers who developed a new mobile application that uses artificial intelligence to accurately diagnose crop diseases in the field have ...
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Saving the world – Nature editorial

A long and almost uncrossable distance separates fundamental plant research carried out predominantly in rich countries, and the production of ...
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BASICS targets sustainable seed system to transform cassava production

Stakeholders in the seed sector have been advised on the need to work towards a sustainable seed system in Nigeria ...
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Uganda: Search for Ways to Improve Cassava Shelf Life

Millions of Uganda rely on cassava not only for food security but as a means of livelihood. However, an issue ...
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Stakeholders combat banana bunchy top disease

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) has intensified efforts aimed at preventing the further spread of Banana Bunchy Top ...
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Nigeria: $11.6m for Sustainable Cassava Seed System

A four-year $11.6m project ending 2019 to develop a commercially sustainable cassava seed value chain in Nigeria, was recently launched ...
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