{"id":16397,"date":"2026-06-20T12:50:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/world-food-programme-team-visit-iita\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T19:33:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:33:29","slug":"world-food-programme-team-visit-iita","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/world-food-programme-team-visit-iita\/","title":{"rendered":"World Food Programme team visit IITA"},"content":{"rendered":"Representatives of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www1.wfp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Programme alimentaire mondial<\/a>\u00a0visited the Institute on 26 January to collaborate on ways to improve livelihoods and innovations, and encourage youth in agriculture.\n\nThe five-member team led by Myrca Kaulard, the WFP Nigeria representative and country director, was received by the Deputy Director General, Partnerships for Delivery,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/iita-staff\/dashiell-kenton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenton Dashiell<\/a>. In his address, Dashiell expressed his delight at the partnership: \u201cI really appreciate the partnership that we have built over the last two years; I look forward to building a stronger one,\u201d he said.\n<div id=\"attachment_3278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 826px\">\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1024_World-food-p01_opt.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3278\" src=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1024_World-food-p01_opt.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of Roundtable discussion among representatives of World Food Programme and IITA management.\" width=\"826\" height=\"449\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3278\" \/><\/a>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-3278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roundtable discussion among representatives of World Food Programme and IITA management.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\nAccording to Kaulard, the collaboration is important as the WFP in Nigeria is faced with the incredible challenge of reducing food importation and ensuring special access to nutrition, most especially for children and pregnant women. She stated: \u201cIt is fundamental to synergize with IITA, an institution with similar interests of improving livelihoods and creating an enabling environment for all.\u201d She congratulated IITA for its \u201camazing work.\u201d She reiterated WFP\u2019s focus on food nutrition as more than 1.2 million people, most of the young farmers, women, and children, depend on their activities for survival.\n\n\u201cWe want to look at how we can use technologies and innovations to transform nutrition and the health sector to achieve our aim of being one of the forces focusing on transforming livelihoods and engaging youth in agriculture, and to see how, in partnership with IITA, we can move from saving lives to changing lives,\u201d she added.\n\nThe team was taken on a tour of the Institute which included the Yam aeroponics, Plantain multiplication, Semi-Autotrophic Hydroponics, and Nutrition\/Crop Utilization facilities.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives of the World Food Programme visited the Institute on 26 January to collaborate on ways to improve livelihoods and innovations, and encourage youth in agriculture.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":16398,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"tags":[1792],"science-area":[],"program":[],"location":[32],"news-type":[],"hub":[61],"crop":[],"impact-areas":[],"item-year":[196],"class_list":["post-16397","news-item","type-news-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-iita-news-no-2419world-food-programme","location-nigeria","hub-western-africa","item-year-196"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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