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😱🌱 Magic Seed 🌿😱 👀Seeing is believing👀 Certified seed has been experimentally shown to yield > 80% more than farmer-saved seed of the same variety. Compare here certified (right) & farmer saved recycled (left) plants of variety Mkombozi. TARI, Maruku, #Tanzania @JYabeja

Moving to #Zambia to get an eye on the #UCBSV situation in the #cassava hot spot in #Chiengi with super nice team @manda2036 @elimadimandy led by Dr Parkes @NextGenCassava @Leibniz_DSMZ_en

Getting a look on the situation of the #CBSD in #Salima in #Malwai with our powerful collaboration @IITA_CGIAR and the wonderful Dr Elizabeth Parkes @NextGenCassava and her wonderful team Lead by Daniel Together for better #Cassava on the region

🇹🇿🌿Cassava QDS 🚜🌍 Meeting today with the #Tanzania Official Seed Certification Institute to brainstorm on ways to enhance last mile delivery of high quality #cassava planting material of improved varieties through the network of >500 Quality Declared Seed (QDS) producers 👍🏼👍🏼

🇹🇿🏆SEED SERVANT 🥈🌿 Dr. Patrick Ngwediagi & his team at the #Tanzania Official Seed Certification Institute got second prize in a recent assessment of performance amongst > 300 #Tanzania government units. #IITA is proud to partner with TOSCI in Tz to take seed systems higher

@AllyM4le @TanzaniaTari @IITA_CGIAR @medadotorg @tzDiscovery @allanmzalendo @MalemboLE @JYabeja @spmagige @GlorianaNdibal1 @JohnAgboola_ There are seed producers in Pwani with several improved varieties. If you tell us where you are, we can direct you to the nearest seed producer. You can also try on seedtracker.org and follow links to cassava and cassava map. There is a map showing seed producer locations

🌿🇹🇿 Donor & Do'er 🇳🇬🌱 L➡️R Mercy Diebiru-Ojo (IITA Do'er 🇳🇬) Lateef Sanni (IITA - Do'er 🇳🇬) Lawrence Kent (BMGF Donor 🇺🇸) All working with Tz🇹🇿 partners, MEDA & farmers in the BASICS-II PROJECT, which is making huge progress in developing sustainable #cassava seed systems

🧬 Onwards & Upwards 🧬 How wonderful to have a visit from Gloria Ceasar today. She started out with our team as a Research Technician, but is now training a new cadre of molecular biologists in 🇹🇿 #Tanzania as a Lecturer at the Uni of Dar es Salaam. Taking Tz biotech higher👆🏼

I am proud and happy that this #virus #resistant #cassava #DSC496, our first prototype with high resistance against All #CMD and #CBSD viruses growing in Kivu DRCongo, also carries a German heart. Tubers are very tasty! @Leibniz_DSMZ_en @nextgencassava

🌿 🇹🇿Breeding Promise🇺🇬 🌿 Previously with @narouganda, now with #IITA, Ismail Kayondo is spearheading @cgiar #cassava breeding work in East Africa. Here with IITA-Tanzania's Edda Mushi in front of a top-performing line in AYT (KBH2020/048) at Chambezi, #Tanzania 🇹🇿 @IITA_CGIAR

🌱🧢 Hats n Cassava 👒🌿 Diversity in Hats moving through the #cassava field! Much like the diversity of skills needed amongst the researchers of national & international institutions partnering to develop resilient varieties that will boost farmer yields & incomes @IITA_CGIAR

🌿😱 CBSD shock 😱🌱 Cassava brown streak virus disease (CBSD) can have devastating pre-harvest impacts for sensitive varieties where inoculum pressure is high. Here, both typical & unusual symptoms in clone KBH2018B/3038 at Chambezi, coastal #Tanzania 🇹🇿 #Cassava @IITA_CGIAR

🌿 Amala Oyeee 🌿 🇮🇹 In #yam country for a few days and really enjoyed this Amala - starchy, flavoursome yam staple with various vegetables & local bean puree Should be healthy too. Same tomorrow, please 🌿🍲🌿🇮🇹

Click on the image to see the whole team 😁🌱😁

The cassava rapid stem multiplication tunnel - Construction 🦺 Manual now available on CGSpace. cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/1… @CGIAR @BiovIntCIAT_eng @ACIARAustralia @dfat

🔵 Keeping Food Safe 🔵 Aflasafe is an incredible science-based biological control technology that protects food from fungal toxins. @alexob36 describes #IITA work with partners to scale out the development & factory production of Aflasafe across Africa. Keeping our food safe

🌿 Plant Health SWOT 🌿 Titilayo Folade, plant pathologist working on mycotoxin management, leads the #IITA plant health group in a #SWOT analysis, looking at 🟢strengths, ⚪weaknesses, 🔵opportunities & 🔴threats Next step - building a stronger network of plant health research

🌿🚜 Plant Health🐞🌿 The sun sets on an energetic team of plant health researchers from @IITA_CGIAR who are meeting this week to plan strategies for tackling crop pest & disease threats, protecting food security & boosting livelihoods in Africa @CGIAR @l_lava @ApollinFotso

😁 sijui kwa nini nacheka nikitazama hizi picha mbili... Lema kama kanyeshewa utadhani siye aliyekuwa anabwabwaja juzi kuwa anataka kukomboa nchi

We are happy to have our collaborators from #Africa with us All one in our #cassava #virus screening workshop 10 participats from 5 conutries #day1 @Leibniz_DSMZ_en @NextGenCassava @StephanWinter11