This study was conducted in Benue, Ebonyi, Kebbi, Ogun and Sokoto Ststes of Nigeria to serve as a baseline to understand the food security and nutritional context of the Federal...

This project highlights the main achievements of IITA's social science and agribusiness research over the 55 years from 1967 to 2022. It includes a systematic review of research...

The CGIAR Initiative on Market Intelligence brings together strategic information on future crops, market segments and trait priorities aligned to the needs and preferences of...

Soybean is a crop with the highest nutritional composition (protein and oil), making it the ideal crop to fight malnutrition and high demand in the market. However, the...

The dataset was obtained from 3 locations (BUK, TOFA, and Tudunwada) in Kano state, Nigeria. The dataset consists of a split plot experiment with sowing window as the main plot...

On the occasion of the 6th World Food Safety Day of 2024 themed “Prepare for the unexpected”, the Africa Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) and the African UnionCommission’s...

Tags and labels are key in cowpea experimentations without which everything would be in a mess. Tags and labels help in keeping varietal identity and reduce the risk of mixing...

"The Sustainable Intensification of Mixed Farming Systems (SI-MFS) Initiative targets the sustainable intensification of farming on approximately 2.5 billion hectares globally...

The objective of the EiA SAA Nigeria Use Case is to combine 3 fertilizer recommendation tools (AKILIMO for cassava, Nutrient Expert (NE) for maize and Rice Advice for rice) in...

After establishing the trials, they need to be managed to ensure the required data quality. The management of trials includes a series of agronomic activities ranging from gap...

Land preparation and planting are very important in the successful establishment of a trial. A poorly prepared land can affect seed germination, increase weed pressure, increase...

Semi-Autotrophic Hydroponics (SAH) is a robust technique for efficiently and rapidly multiplying clonally propagated crops. It is a low-cost and licensed method for high ratio...

This project is a strategic initiative to ensure that government policies from agriculture development do lead to actual agricultural transformation in Nigeria and Togo towards...

This project is a strategic initiative to ensure that government policies from agriculture development do lead to actual agricultural transformation in Nigeria and Togo towards...

Site selection and field plot layout are important components of experimentations and require adequate attention. Poor site selections and field layouts are major sources of...

This document lists the different tasks to be performed by the use case team before and during the enumerators’ training to ensure digital data collection in the field is smooth.

Accurate data collection is essential for precise decisions in yam breeding activities. It is relevant for reliable choices in selecting and advancing desirable genotypes.

The yam breeding generates thousands of genotypic and phenotypic data every year from genetic studies and breeding trials. There is a need for data centralization, curation,...

Yam (Dioscorea species) leaf samples contain high levels of polysaccharides and polyphenolic compounds. The extraction of DNA from leaves is usually problematic. Therefore,...

The tuber is the food organ and the essential part of the yam plant. Evaluations and selection are premised on this economic part, just like in other root ad tuber crops. The...