worked with international and national partners to improve livelihoods, enhance food and nutrition security, increase employment, and preserve natural resource integrity.
IITA is guided by an ambitious strategy–to lift 11.5 million people out of poverty and revitalize 7.5 million hectares of farmland–by 2020. As one of 15 research centers in the CGIAR, a global partnership for a food secure future, IITA is engaged in several CGIAR Research Programs (CRPs).
IITA has delivered more than 70% of the CGIAR’s impact in sub-Saharan Africa and remains committed to science-driven improvement of agriculture and related food value chains.
Our R4D programs are focused on four crucial areas: Biotechnology and Genetic Improvement, Natural Resource Management, Social Science and Agribusiness, Plant Production and Plant Health and Nutrition and Food Technology.
IITA’s R4D programs have attracted the best and brightest minds from all over the world. Thousands of scientists and professionals have been involved in IITA training and research programs and continue to benefit from the knowledge they have in turn passed on to others.
To help address poverty and the high number of unemployed young men and women in, IITA has initiated a Youth Agripreneurs program to create jobs by making agriculture and agribusiness appealing to the youth. The program is integrated into the Business Incubation Platform (BIP), the technology delivery arm of IITA, which serves as a model to stimulate product development and to provide opportunities for market expansion.
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How may I join a Youth Agripreneurs program to reach my goal of agripreneur in greenhouse farming. Based online study knowledge and O-level secondary agricultural education I have built an affordadle greenhouse in a 60 sq. metres landplot here Kimara-Saranga-DSM where i succesfully grow vegetables and fruits since june2017 and using it as "on site training garden to those with interest of learning greenhouse farming". I expect to expand to reach 120sq.m of the whole area basing on locally available materials such as durable building nets, plastic transparent sheet/films and woodposts from building stores. the cost so far is 386,000 Tshs about(US$ 166). my expectation is to have a well designed greenhouse that accommodate vege-fruits, aquaculture and hydroponics basically built on locally available materials.I have aquired 2 acres of landplot in Kibaha area for expandind greenhouse project initially at low cost then to evolve into high-tech greenhouses. I welcome any staff to visit my affordable greenhouse in Saranga street 2.5km south from Temboni bus stop-Morogoro Rd. my mobile contact +255714381679
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