{"id":15846,"date":"2026-06-20T12:47:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/afdb-vice-president-visits-iita\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:27:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:27:46","slug":"afdb-vice-president-visits-iita","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/afdb-vice-president-visits-iita\/","title":{"rendered":"AfDB Vice President visits IITA"},"content":{"rendered":"On 26 March, Dr Jennifer Blanke, Vice President of the\u00a0Banque africaine de d\u00e9veloppement<\/a>\u00a0(AfDB) paid a courtesy visit to\u00a0IITA<\/a>\u00a0headquarters in Ibadan, Nigeria. She was received by IITA Director General,\u00a0Nteranya Sanginga<\/a>, the Deputy Director Generals, and members of IITA management. The purpose of her visit was \u201cto see how the collaborations were going and how both parties can do better.\u201d\n\nAfDB has been in partnership with IITA on projects such as the\u00a0SARD-SC Project<\/a>\u00a0(2013\u20132017),\u00a0The ATASP-1 Outreach Program<\/a>\u00a0(2016 till date), and the\u00a0TAAT<\/a>\u00a0program (2018 till date).\n
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AfDB VP Jennifer Blanke in a round-table discussion with IITA senior management staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\nIn his welcome remarks, Sanginga expressed his delight about the visit and gave an overview of the history of the Institute, hubs and stations, achievements and recognition, annual budget, donors, as well as staff and diversities. He said, \u201cWe are very transparent because we have no other agenda than to create positive impact, which everyone can benefit from.\u201d\n\nSpeaking on the role of partnerships in achieving the transformation agenda of the Institute, IITA Deputy Director General, Partnerships for Delivery,\u00a0Kenton Dashiell<\/a>\u00a0said, \u201cThe transformation of African agriculture is not done by IITA alone, it is achieved through partnerships.\u201d\n\nAccording to the Coordinator of\u00a0Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation<\/a>\u00a0(TAAT),\u00a0Chrys Akem<\/a>, IITA has a very strong partnership alliance with the AfDB to transform agriculture and scale up agribusiness opportunities throughout 18 key agricultural commodity value chains via the Bank\u2019s \u201cFeed Africa\u201d agenda. TAAT is essentially a knowledge and innovation-based response to the recognized need for scaling up proven technologies across Africa.\n\nDuring a tour of IITA facilities, Blanke expressed her delight with the Youth in Agribusiness Center, congratulating the youth who had undergone training through the\u00a0Empowering Novel AgriBusiness-Led Employment for Youth in African Agriculture<\/a>\u00a0(ENABLE Youth) program, and have now become CEOs. Other stops on her tour included the Aflasafe, Nodumax, and GoSeed facilities and the IITA Women\u2019s Group Farm.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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