{"id":17675,"date":"2026-06-20T12:58:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/from-the-board-of-trustees-iitas-results-very-impressive\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T17:02:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:02:28","slug":"from-the-board-of-trustees-iitas-results-very-impressive","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/from-the-board-of-trustees-iitas-results-very-impressive\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Board of Trustees: IITA\u2019s results\u2026 very impressive"},"content":{"rendered":"During a town hall meeting that brought R4D Week to its climax, Bruce Coulman, Chair, Board of Trustees, IITA, said that despite the biting cuts in the core funding of CGIAR, IITA\u2019s success in 2015 was impressive.\n
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Bruce Coulman addressing staff and scientists during the town hall meeting in Ibadan.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\u201cWhen the Board meets, we have an agenda where we review all aspects of all the Institute\u2019s operations. Having the meetings here allows us to dive deeper into the scientific work of IITA. I am happy to say that the Board is very impressed to learn about methods being developed to evaluate the progress in IITA\u2019s goals of uplifting people out of poverty and bringing land to sustainability and these we found to be very interesting. It is ground-breaking research; it will be very much of interest to other centers. We also discussed the budget situation and how it is being managed and we support IITA\u2019s way of handling it. We will be showing a small surplus this year unlike other centers who are going to be in a deficit position this year.\u201d\nCoulman also highlighted that IITA is at the forefront of taking impacts from research and translating them into usable forms by poor farmers.\n\n\u201cDonors and people involved in agriculture research in the developed world are really looking at the ability to make research products available to end users. A lot of emphasis is also being placed on how this is done\u2026 IITA has been able to answer this because of its Business Incubation Platform which allows us to increase the use of technologies and work with private industries and partners within the national program to get these products into the hands of farmers.\u201d He ended by saying that he expects the Institute to break more ground in 2016.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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