{"id":17148,"date":"2026-06-20T12:55:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/iita-holds-first-ever-science-day-in-tanzania\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T18:03:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:03:42","slug":"iita-holds-first-ever-science-day-in-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/iita-holds-first-ever-science-day-in-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"IITA holds first-ever science day in Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"IITA scientists and senior support and administration staff working in Tanzania gathered in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, for a \u201cScience Day\u201d event and listened to over 30 presentations from each other on the ongoing research efforts and activities in the country. The science day was held on 29\u201330 September.\n<div id=\"attachment_1493\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/999_Tanz.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1493 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/999_Tanz.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of Participants to the science day in Tanzania.\" width=\"996\" height=\"454\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1493\" \/><\/a>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants to the science day in Tanzania.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\u201cThe event was very successful. We had all the scientists, senior staff, and PhD students based in Tanzania sharing on their work, their approaches, progress, impact so far, and future plans. Through these presentations, everyone was able to get a clear picture of what everyone else was doing and an overview of the breadth and range of activities we are carrying out in the country,\u201d said\u00a0<a title=\"Visit Victor Manyong&apos;s profile page on the IITA website\" href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/manyong-victor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Victor Manyong<\/a>, IITA Director for Eastern Africa who led in organizing the event.\n\nThe presentations focused on the IITA research areas of the Institute such as crop improvement of cassava and banana\u2014important key staples in the country; control of major diseases such as the cassava mosaic disease and cassava brown streak disease ravaging the crop; and value addition through improved processing technologies.\n\nNewer research areas in the country were also presented such as sustainable intensification of farming systems led by the flagship project Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation (<a title=\"Visit the Africa RISING website\" href=\"https:\/\/africa-rising.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AFRIQUE GRANDISSANT<\/a>); food nutrition and security including efforts to roll out\u00a0<a title=\"Visit the &apos;Aflasafe&apos; page on the Aflasafe.com website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aflasafe.com\/aflasafe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aflasafe<\/a>\u00a0in Tanzania to control aflatoxin contamination; and social science research looking into gender issues and impact studies to track the Institute\u2019s progress on poverty reduction in line with its refreshed strategy to move 11.5 million people out of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.\n\nThe seven PhD students currently based in Tanzania presented on their research. These ranged from efforts to tackle soybean rust, to understanding the impact of climate change on the cassava virus diseases pandemic and how the different cassava varieties interact with the cassava brown streak viruses to analyzing the economic efficiency of different cassava processing methods and understand what motivates farmers to adopt new innovations.\n\nStaff from R4D support such as Monitoring and Evaluation, Communication, Administration, and Facilities Maintenance were not left behind as well as the Youth Agripreneurs. They too presented on their activities.\n\nThis is the first ever such event for the Institute. The tradition has been to either to organize hub retreats for all the scientists in the various locations of the hub or to gather all IITA scientists at the Headquarters in Ibadan, Nigeria for a one-week event dubbed Research for Development (R4D) week during which scientists and senior staff from all IITA hubs and project country projects get to know each other and their research and activities.\n\nHowever, this year, R4D week has been replaced by a Partnerships for Delivery Week to focus on IITA\u2019s efforts to scale out and commercialize its technologies through partnering with the private sector. The Science Days which will be held in the various countries where IITA works will create a forum where the scientists can learn about the ongoing work. The additional benefit of such a location-based science day is to inform staff about the overall IITA activities in that country.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IITA scientists and senior support and administration staff working in Tanzania gathered in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, for a \u201cScience Day\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":17149,"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":[2133],"science-area":[],"program":[],"location":[27],"news-type":[],"hub":[62],"crop":[],"impact-areas":[],"item-year":[194],"class_list":["post-17148","news-item","type-news-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bulletin-no-2350tanzania","location-tanzania","hub-eastern-africa","item-year-194"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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