Hunger still rising across East Africa, says new UN-backed report

Aug 29, 2022

Issued by the region’s Inter-Governmental Authority on Development, the IGAD Regional Focus on Food Crises report sounds the alarm over escalating food insecurity and malnutrition in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan. “The current food...

Data management gets a boost

Nov 12, 2021

Data management in IITA got a boost with IITA’s participation in Research Data Alliance 15 Plenary for Interest Group on Agriculture Data (IGAD) online held on 9 April 2020. IITA was asked to present on its efforts at promoting agricultural data. Institutional Data...

South Sudan at risk of acute food insecurity- FSNWG and FAO

May 11, 2021

According to the Food Security and Nutrition Working Group (FSNWG), a multi-stakeholder regional forum chaired by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) about 108,000 people are...

Testimonies from Entrepreneurship in Agribusiness alumni!

Jan 11, 2021

Late last year, together with our Partners from the African Management Institute (AMI) and the Swedish International Agriculture Network Initiative (SIANI), we arranged a course supporting the new generation of entrepreneurs in the African agribusiness sector in...