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IITA in the News

22 July 2010 Scientific American: Putting the Sting on Mealy Marauders
This two-millimeter-long wasp injects its eggs into mealybugs, killing them from the inside out as the larvae grow. Georg Goergen (IITA)
22 July 2010 The Progressive Farmer news: Expert: Cassava Can Help Beat Poverty
Cassava could help Tanzania farmers, create million of jobs and accelerate the country's economic growth, accord to Peter Hartmann, director general for the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
22 July 2010 Fresh Fruits and Vegetable blog: Agricultural innovations are still needed to boost food production in Africa
Agricultural innovations are still relevant in transforming livelihoods in Africa, a stakeholder lecture on "Food and Culture" has heard.
21 July 2010 Fresh Plaza: Agricultural innovations are still needed to boost food production in Africa
Professor Lateef Sanni, IITA Scientist, said that this increase in incomes of farmers came between 2003 and 2008.
20 July 2010 Nigerian Tribune: Agricultural innovations, neccessary ingredient for food security –Experts
Professor Lateef Sanni, a scientist with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, said this during the Food and Culture lecture organised by the Public Affairs Section of the United States Consulate General, Lagos, in conjunction with the IITA, in Ibadan, recently.
20 July 2010 Nigerian Observer: Nigerian Cassava Farmers Trade N150m Stems In 5yrs -Reseachers
The lecture was organised by the Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Consulate in Lagos in collaboration with IITA.
20 July 2010 NAN: Nigerian cassava farmers trade N150m stems in five years
In his presentation entitled: “Roots and Tubers: Food Security Crops in Nigeria,” Prof. Lateef Sanni, a scientist at IITA, said cassava was a food security crop in Nigeria and a major provider of employment and income.
20 July 2010 National Geographic: Parasitic Wasp Swarm Unleashed to Fight Pests
An Anagyrus lopezi wasp. Photograph courtesy Georg Goergen, IITA.

20 July 2010 The Citizen: Exploit cassava to fight poverty, Tanzania urged
A statement quoted the director-general of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Dr Peter Hartmann, as telling Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda in Dodoma recently that the crop could also provide food security in dry regions.
19 July 2010 USA Today: Take a quarter million wasps and call me in the morning - the cassava cure in Thailand
...Entomologist Georg Goergen, with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, hand carried a colony of 500 of the parasitic wasps to Bangkok last year so Thai researchers could begin tests and start rearing the tiny, two millimeter insects.

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