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Community Organizations International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
Acronym
IITA
Non Governmental organization
Non-profit organization
Phone number
+234 700800IITA

Location

PMB 5320, Oyo Roa
200001
Ibadan
Oyo
Nigeria
Working languages
English
Affiliated Organization
CGIAR

CGIAR is the only worldwide partnership addressing agricu

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is a non-profit institution that generates agricultural innovations to meet Africa’s most pressing challenges of hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and natural resource degradation. Working with various partners across sub-Saharan Africa, we improve livelihoods, enhance food and nutrition security, increase employment, and preserve natural resource integrity.


 


Mission


“To offer leading research partnership that facilitates agricultural solutions to hunger, poverty, and natural resource degradation throughout sub-Saharan Africa.”


IITA’s mission is to assure food security for some of the world’s poorest people and provide them with viable strategies that create real, long-term results for economic development and community stability, while building an ecologically sound future that takes into account the issues of climate change. At IITA, we are dedicated to alleviating these problems and working to transform agriculture in Africa.


Vision


“The lead research partner facilitating agricultural solutions to overcome hunger and poverty in the tropics.”


IITA sees a bright future for Africa. We see a continent that can become a world leader in agriculture and sustainability. We understand that Africa needs a proactive CGIAR-supported Center that is closely linked to the demands of this continent. Our core beliefs and strategy reflect this.


In line with the new CGIAR, IITA is focused on four System-Level Outcomes described in the Strategic Results Framework.


  1. Increase food security
  2. Reduce rural poverty
  3. Reduce the prevalence of under-nutrition
  4. Introduce sustainable natural resource management

IITA will advance these System Level Outcomes within five impact zones in sub-Saharan Africa by increasing major staple food yields in target R4D regions by two-thirds. Focusing on cassava, yam, maize, banana and plantain, soybean, and cowpea is the fastest and easiest way to impact farmers and increase the average farm income by half. As rural, farming communities in Africa are among the poorest in the world, these increases will lift over 11 million Africans or almost a fifth of households above the poverty line. Our vision of the future sees the region’s farms commit to restoring natural resources and sustainable farming practices for seven and a half million hectares of degraded farmlands, conserving them for future generations of farmers and food producers.


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Resources

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Electronic support tools for identification and management of rice weeds in Africa for better-informed agricultural change agents

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2016
Central African Republic
Nigeria
Kenya
Mali
Senegal
Uganda
Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa

We developed an interactive electronic weed identification tool, AFROweeds, and an online network, Weedsbook, for agricultural change agents to aid communication and offer assistance to rice farmers with specific weed problems. We collected quantitative and qualitative data to assess effectiveness and usefulness of these products with potential users. With the online version of AFROweeds, used on an electronic tablet, average weed identification time in the field was 7 min 6 s with 44% successful identifications.

Vulnerability to climate change of cocoa in West Africa: patterns, opportunities and limits to adaptation

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2016
Cameroon
Sierra Leone
Africa
Western Africa

The West African cocoa belt, reaching from Sierra Leone to southern Cameroon, is the origin of about 70% of the world's cocoa (Theobroma cacao), which in turn is the basis of the livelihoods of about two million farmers. We analyze cocoa's vulnerability to climate change in the West African cocoa belt, based on climate projections for the 2050s of 19 Global Circulation Models under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change intermediate emissions scenario RCP 6.0.