{"id":17571,"date":"2026-06-20T12:57:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/yiifswa-technical-advisory-committee-holds-meeting\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T17:18:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:18:32","slug":"yiifswa-technical-advisory-committee-holds-meeting","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/yiifswa-technical-advisory-committee-holds-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"YIIFSWA Technical Advisory Committee holds meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"The YIIFSWA Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) also met on 19 February after the review and planning workshop, to discuss the progress made and advise YIIFSWA project team on project directions.\n<div id=\"attachment_404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1024_YIIFSWA-Technical-Advisory-Committee.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-404\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-404\" src=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1024_YIIFSWA-Technical-Advisory-Committee.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1024_YIIFSWA-Technical-Advisory-Committee.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1024_YIIFSWA-Technical-Advisory-Committee-300x171-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1024_YIIFSWA-Technical-Advisory-Committee-768x437-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1024_YIIFSWA-Technical-Advisory-Committee-450x256.jpg 450w\" alt=\"Picture of YIIFSWA Technical Advisory Committee\" width=\"1024\" height=\"583\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-404\" \/><\/a>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-404\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">YIIFSWA Technical Advisory Committee<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\nPresent at the meeting were\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Alexandre_Dansi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexandre Dansi<\/a><\/u>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cgiar.org\/web-archives\/www-cgiar-org-smc-smc_participants_2008-html\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Hiroko\u00a0<\/u>Takagi<u>-Watanabe<\/u><\/a>,\u00a0<u><a href=\"http:\/\/cesdev.ui.edu.ng\/olawoye.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Janice Olawoye<\/a><\/u>,\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tony-sikpa-b16a9336\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tony Sikpa<\/a><\/u>, Cephas Dormediameo, Lydia Susu, Regina Sagoe, Tola Adepomola, A.O. Salako,\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lauren-good-9805b719\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lauren Good<\/a><\/u>,\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/maroya-norbert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Norbert Maroya<\/a><\/u>,\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/aighewi-beatrice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beatrice Aighewi<\/a><\/u>,\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/kumar-lava\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lava Kumar<\/a><\/u>,\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/balogun-morufat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Morufat Balogun<\/a><\/u>,\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/mignouna-djana-babatima\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Djana Mignouna<\/a><\/u>,\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/henry-asumadu-17aa7773\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Henry Asumadu<\/a><\/u>, Haruna Braimah,\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/ikeorgu-john\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Ikeorgu<\/a><\/u>, and Oiwoja Odihi.\n\nAfter the official opening statement by the DDG Corporate Services,\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/Akuffo-Akoto-Kwame\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kwame Akuffo-Akoto<\/a><\/u>, TAC members reviewed the execution of the previous year\u2019s recommendations and the project activities. The main discussion points were on ensuring that the project meets its goal of increasing yam productivity (yield and net output) by 40% for 200,000 smallholder farmers in Ghana and Nigeria, as well as generation of research goods that will contribute to double income for 3 million yam producers in a 10-year horizon.\n\nThe TAC members acknowledged that extensive work had been done with regard to implementing the project and delivering key research products that would contribute to improving yam productivity but more work is needed to transform YIIFSWA\u2019s research products into tangible forms to attract the private sector into the yam production system.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The YIIFSWA Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) also met on 19 February after the review and planning workshop, to discuss the progress made and advise YIIFSWA project team on project directions.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":17572,"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":[2333],"science-area":[],"program":[],"location":[32],"news-type":[],"hub":[61],"crop":[],"impact-areas":[],"item-year":[194],"class_list":["post-17571","news-item","type-news-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bulletin-no-2315yamyiifswa","location-nigeria","hub-western-africa","item-year-194"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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