Ethiopia has made unprecedented investments in agriculture in the past two decades. As a result, the agriculture sector is growing 7% annually and millions of Ethiopians are now rising to a middle-class life, moving out of poverty and hunger. CGIAR is working alongside the Ethiopian people in the...
Su Kahumbu raises badass cows -- healthy, well-fed animals whose protein is key to solving a growing crisis in Africa: childhood nutritional stunting. With iCow, a simple SMS service she developed to support small-scale livestock farmers, the TED Fellow is helping farmers across the continent by ...
This video highlights how through Africa RISING program interventions, a group of farmers at Mlali Village in central Tanzania are today making choices that will ensure they improve their livelihoods while conserving the natural resource base for the future generations. Africa RISING (https://afr...
This film describes how every one of the world's many livestock systems is being transformed by innovations in livestock development: research innovations, technological innovations, policy innovations and political will to drive economic development.
Dr George Mahuku, IITA plant pathologist for Eastern, Central and Southern Africa shares on IITA's research on controlling aflatoxins - a major global health problem that threatens lives and livelihoods.
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 i...