In October 2020, two banks, in collaboration with government agencies and development partners in Tanzania, launched an initiative to finance cassava growers with a more than one million dollar loan facility. This arrangement directly injected...
Agricultural stakeholders and policymakers in Nigeria are calling for the adoption of the Six Steps to Cassava Weed Management & Best Planting Practices toolkit that was developed by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA);...
Researchers working at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and national partners have identified eight major weeds undermining the yield of cassava and hurting the incomes of farmers in Nigeria. In a study published...
Following the meeting with commissioners of agriculture last year, the Enugu state government has demonstrated its commitment to investing in weed control by organizing the first ever training for extension workers on weed management in...
Members of the African Cassava Agronomy Initiative (ACAI) met in Nigeria to brainstorm and reflect on the progress made in the first quarter of the year, 2019, across the different components of the project otherwise...
The African Cassava Agronomy Initiative (ACAI) project and the Cassava Weed Management Project (CWMP), have merged into a single project. Both projects are funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation under the Agricultural Development...
The IITA led African Cassava Agronomy Initiative (ACAI) project has set the 2018 calendar of activities around running validation trials for the six Decision Support Tools (DSTs) that the project is developing. The first validation trials were set up in...
Between 14th and 27th November, ACAI held two meetings with development partners in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Ibadan, Nigeria to review the collaboration between the project and the partners, and to agree on short...
Researchers working with the IITA-CWMP have published a chapter in one of a series of books published by Burleigh Dodds Publishing. The researchers — Dr. Stefan Hauser, IITA Senior Systems Agronomist; and Prof. Friday Ekeleme,...
