The Congo Basin Institute is a center of higher learning and scientific excellence in Central Africa. The Congo Basin Institute and the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife...

An experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of using whole tubers versus minisetts to produce seed yams. Six treatments were combinations of whole tubers and...

The data is from an investigation of the influence of planting different minisett sizes at different periods on yield. The trial was carried out on the experimental field at...

The average yam yields of local varieties is less than 25% of the yield of improved released varieties, which range from 30 to 40 tons/ha. Absence of a formal seed system has...

Disease eradication from yam were standardized using meristem culture and heat therapy at 36 ± 0.5°C and 16 h photoperiod for 21 days, to generate clean initial stock of...

Science-driven and farmer-oriented insect pest management for cowpea agro-ecosystems in West Africa.

The “Enhancing partnership among Africa RISING, NAFAKA, and TUBORESHE CHAKULA programs for fast tracking delivery and scaling of agricultural technologies in Tanzania project”...

The proposed is a multidisciplinary project for development of a novel RNA-based crop protection strategy for managing cowpea pests. The RNA biopesticides have the potential for...

The Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) is a program initiated by the African Development Bank (AfDB) as part of its Feed Africa Initiative. The main...

The SIMLEZA project tested a range of improved technologies such as conservation agriculture (CA), soybean agronomy, improved and stress-tolerant germplasm, maize-legume...

ACAI is a 5 year Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded project in 5 countries in Africa (Nigeria and Tanzania) providing tailored agronomic advice to small scale cassava...

The approach to scaling technologies based on national boundaries needs to be replaced by an approach that involves agro-ecological zones that spread across multiple countries....

Stress Tolerant Maize for Africa for Improved Livelihoods

Stress Tolerant Maize for Africa for Improved Livelihoods

Genetic diversity and Genome-wide association study

Low productivity and climate change require climate-smart agriculture (CSA) for sub- Saharan Africa (SSA), through (i) sustainably increasing crop productivity, (ii) enhancing...

A PhD research work in Crop Protection and Environmental Biology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ibadan conducted in IITA under Dr. Danny Coyne supervision

The proposed project is a collaborative initiative between icipe, IITA, UoB, MPI-Jena and national institutions in sub-Saharan Africa with the broad objective of increasing...

The proposed project is a collaborative initiative between icipe, IITA, UoB, MPI-Jena and national institutions in sub-Saharan Africa with the broad objective of increasing...

This project is aimed to sustainably enhance the adoption, productivity and utilization of endophyte primed high pro-vitamin A plantain cultivars and hybrids in the context of...