International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

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. We are an Africa-based international non-profit research-for-development organization founded in 1967 that generates agricultural innovations to meet Africa’s most pressing challenges of hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and natural resource degradation. IITA is a member of CGIAR System Organization, a global agriculture research partnership for a food secure future.