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Participants at the Ghana National Yam Advocacy Summit.
21 August 2026
PROSSIVA advances leaf-bud cutting and yam stakeholder action in Ghana
Dr Beatrice Aighewi presenting the research outcomes and potentials of LBC to the Minister of Food and Agriculture, Hon. Eric Opoku. The Program for Seed System Innovation for Vegetatively Propagated...
The Japanese delegates, IITA Yam Breeding Program staff, seminar participants, and members of IITA senior management team in a group photograph after the MAFF project kick-off meeting.
21 August 2026
IITA and Japan strengthen partnership with launch of new MAFF-funded yam project
The Japanese delegates, IITA Yam Breeding Program staff, seminar participants, and members of IITA senior management team in a group photograph after the MAFF project kick-off meeting. IITA–CGIAR, through the...
The GESI workshop brought together stakeholders from research, government, the private sector, development partners and other institutions to explore how agricultural mechanization can be scaled in ways that are equitable and inclusive.
21 August 2026
Mainstreaming responsible and inclusive approaches in scaling agricultural mechanization innovations in Zambia
The GESI workshop brought together stakeholders from research, government, the private sector, development partners and other institutions to explore how agricultural mechanization can be scaled in ways that are equitable...
CGIAR Global Leadership team with Dr Hari Menon.
21 August 2026
Gates Foundation and CGIAR leadership visit highlights impact of investment in agricultural innovation
CGIAR Global Leadership team with Dr Hari Menon. CGIAR recently hosted Dr Hari Menon, President for Global Growth and Opportunity at the Gates Foundation, and members of the CGIAR Global Leadership...
Restored Hope: A smallholder farmer in Ukerewe successfully restored their banana garden using certified disease-free planting material produced through the locally established macro-propagation unit.
14 August 2026
Collaborative effort saves Ukerewe’s bananas from BBTV threat
Lost Hope: A smallholder farmer's banana garden severely devastated by Banana Bunchy Top Disease (BBTD), resulting in the loss of most plants. Banana farmers on Ukerewe Island, Tanzania, faced disaster...
From left: Dr John Omondi, Gersonia Catine, Dr Steve Boahen, Districtal Service of Economic Activities Director, Dr David Chikoye, Matina Neves and Dr Amaral Chibeba in a courtesy visit to the local Government
14 August 2026
Strengthening climate-resilient agriculture in Mozambique
From left: Dr John Omondi, Gersonia Catine, Dr Steve Boahen, Districtal Service of Economic Activities Director, Dr David Chikoye, Matina Neves and Dr Amaral Chibeba in a courtesy visit to...
A LACRA official in the coffee nursery before distribution.
14 August 2026
Rediscovering Liberia’s coffee for global markets
Dr Bhattacharjee with some of the coffee farmers and LACRA representatives during the handing over of seedlings in two of the counties. For generations, the global coffee story has largely...
IITA Rwanda staff Charles Mwizerwa explains the cassava value chain to visitor farmers at the Rwanda Agrishow 2026.
14 August 2026
From clean seed to food and feed: IITA showcases cassava innovations at Rwanda’s Agrishow
IITA Rwanda staff Charles Mwizerwa explains the cassava value chain to visitor farmers at the Rwanda Agrishow 2026. At the IITA-CGIAR stand during Rwanda’s 2026 Agrishow, visitors could trace the journey...
Showcase of cassava processing equipment.
13 August 2026
IITA’s innovations are attracting growing interest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
IITA Stand at the GSAD 2026, Lualaba, Kolwezi-DRC. IITA-CGIAR's innovations continue to generate growing interest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Requests for partnerships, technical support, and scaling...
Deputy Minister for Technical Services, Honorable Solomon Hedd-Williams with others at the commissioning of the AAS in the soil testing lab.
13 August 2026
From sample to science: Strengthening the laboratory backbone of soil health in West Africa and the Sahel
Deputy Minister for Technical Services, Honorable Solomon Hedd-Williams with others at the commissioning of the AAS in the soil testing lab. When farmers receive fertilizer recommendations, they rarely see the...
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Olaosebikan, Olamide

Olamide Deborah Nwanze is a Senior Research Associate specializing in gender mainstreaming research to inform participatory and inclusive breeding, variety development, and seed systems policies regarding root, tuber, and banana (RTB) crops in the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture Headquarters, Ibadan, Nigeria. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Ibadan and holds an MSc and B. Agric in Agricultural Extension and Rural Development. Olamide is a fellow of the African Women in Agricultural Research and Development – Gender Responsive Agricultural Systems Policy (AWARD-GRASP) and the Gender Responsive Researchers Equipped for Agricultural Transformation (GREAT). She seeks to apply her gender-mainstreaming learnings, gender-responsive research, and policy development, and review expertise to facilitate women, youth, children, and vulnerable social group’s access to and adoption of agricultural Innovations that guarantee food, nutrition, income, and livelihood security in Africa. Her current roles include mentoring research fellows, development of guides and training manuals, implementation and adaptation of gender frameworks and tools, value chain actors’ engagement as citizen science partners, policy review and redesign, data management, and analysis. Her current research explores mixed methods and participatory and interdisciplinary approaches to capture and highlight gender dynamics, needs, preferences, and challenges stakeholders face within the agricultural livelihood value chain to prioritize gender-inclusive strategies in breeding programs, policy design, and implementation.

At IITA, she contributes to the implementation of the CGIAR Accelerated Breeding Initiative and Genetic Innovation Programs; participatory and gender research within the NextGen Cassava, HarvestPlus, RTBFoods, and Tricot-ClimMob 1000Farms Projects; and gender knowledge communication via the G-LENS webinar series, video documentary, policy briefs, publications, and blogs.

 

Recent publications

de Sousa, K., van Etten, J., Manners, R. Bello, A., Teeken, B., Olaosebikan, O., et al. 2024. The tricot approach: an agile framework for decentralized on-farm testing supported by citizen science. A retrospective. Agron. Sustain. Dev. 44, 8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13593-023-00937-1

Madu, T., Onwuka, S., Nwafor, S., Onyemauwa, N., Ejechi, M., Ofoeze, M., Ukeje, B., Eluagu, C., Olaosebikan, O., Okoye, B., 2024. Gender-Inclusive Consumer Studies Improve Cassava Breeding in Nigeria in: Frontiers in Sociology, volume 9, number: 1224504, doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1224504

Olaosebikan, O.; Bello, A.; Utoblo, O.; Okoye, B.; Olutegbe, N.; Garner, E.; Teeken, B.; Bryan, E.; Forsythe, L.; Cole, S.; Madu, T. 2023.  Stressors and Resilience within the Cassava Value Chain in Nigeria: Preferred Cassava Variety Traits and Response Strategies of Men and Women to Inform Breeding. Sustainability 15, 7837. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15107837

Okoye, B., Ofoeze, M., Ejechi, M., Onwuka, S., Nwafor, S., Onyemauwa, N., Ukeje, B., Eluagu, C., Obidiegwu, J.*, Olaosebikan, O., Madu, T.* 2023. Prioritizing preferred traits in the yam value chain in Nigeria: a gender situation analysis in: Frontiers in Sociology, volume 8, number: 1232626, pages 1 – 9, ISSN 2297-7775, 2023. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2023.1232626/full

Olaosebikan, O., Bello, A. A., de Sousa, K., Ndjouenkeu, R., Adesokan, M., Alamu, E. O., Agbona, A., van Etten, J., Kegah, F. N.*, Dufour, D., Bouniol, A., Teeken, B. 2023. Consumer acceptability of cassava gari-eba food products across cultural and environmental settings using the triadic comparison of technologies approach (tricot) in: Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture,

Teeken, B., Olaosebikan, O., Bello, A. A., Madu, T.*, Cole, S. M. 2023. Qualitative assessment on the positionality and preferences of dyads in relation to cassava-related activities: working with tricot trial citizen scientists https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138326 Type: Manual

Bouniol, A., Ceballos, H., Bello, A. A., Teeken, B., Olaosebikan, O., Owoade, D., Agbona, A., Fotso Kuate, A., Madu, T.*, Okoye, B.*, Ofoeze, M.*, Nwafor, S.*, Onyemauwa, N.*, Adinsi, L.*, Forsythe, L., Dufour, D. 2023. Varietal impact on women’s labour, workload and related drudgery in processing root, tuber and banana crops: focus on cassava in sub-Saharan Africa in: Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, pages 1 – 25, ISSN 0022-5142,

Bello, A. A., Agbona, A., Olaosebikan, O., Edughaen, G., Dufour, D., Bouniol, A., Iluebbey, P., Ndjouenkeu, R.*, Rabbi, I. Y., Teeken, B. 2023. Genetic and environmental effects on processing productivity and food product yield: drudgery of women’s work in: Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, pages 1 – 32, ISSN 0022-5142, 5

Cavicchioli, M., Zimbiti, T., Teeken, B., Nwanze, D.O., Liani, M., Parkes, E. & Bello, A. 2023. IITA-Gender Responsive Breeding Training Report. Genetic Resources Center, IITA-HQ, Ibadan, 21-23 September, 2022. Ibadan, Nigeria: IITA, (34 p.).https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131368

Agbona, A. Peteti P., Teeken B., Olaosebikan O. Bello, A. A., Parkes, E., Rabbi, I. Y., Mueller, L., Egesi, C., Kulakow, P. 2022. Data Management in Multi-disciplinary African RTB Crop Breeding Programs. In: Williamson, H.F., Leonelli, S. (eds) Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage: Data Challenges for Agricultural Research and Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13276-6_5

Lora Forsythe, Pricilla Marimo, Sarah Mayanja, Olamide D. Olaosebikan, Esme Stuart, Bela Teeken, Benjamin Okoye, Tessy Madu, (2021). Cross-product Gender Analysis of RTBfoods Step 2 Gendered Food Mapping on RTB Products. Understanding the Drivers of Trait Preferences and the Development of Multi-user RTB Product Profiles, WP1. London, UK: RTBfoods Field Scientific Report, 30 p.

Teeken, B., Garner, E., Agbona, A., Balogun, I., Olaosebikan, O., Bello, A., Madu, T., Okoye, B., Egesi, C., Kulakow, P. and Tufan, H.A. 2021. Beyond “Women’s Traits”: Exploring How Gender, Social Difference, and Household Characteristics Influence Trait Preferences. Frontiers Sustainable Food Systems 5:740926. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.740926

Teeken, B., Agbona, A., Bello, A., Olaosebikan, O., Alamu, E., Adesokan, M., Awoyale, W., Madu, T., Okoye, B., Chijioke, U., Owoade, D., Okoro, M., Bouniol, A., Dufour, D., Hershey, C., Rabbi, I., Maziya‐Dixon, B., Egesi, C., Tufan, H. and Kulakow, P. (020. Understanding cassava varietal preferences through pairwise ranking of gari‐eba and fufu prepared by local farmer–processors. Int J Food Sci Technol. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijfs.14862

Bela Teeken, Olamide Olaosebikan, Ireti Balogun, Benjamin Okoye, Tessy Madu, Steven Cole, Abolore Bello, Elizabeth Parkes. (2020). Piloting the G+ customer and product profile tools for gender-responsive cassava breeding in Nigeria. Nigeria: International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA). https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/13000