The Ghana Groundnut Working Group (GGWG), in collaboration with CSIR-SARI, hosted a two-day workshop at the Mariam Hotel in Tamale on 25-26 July 2023. The workshop brought together stakeholders and experts from across the groundnut value chain to deliberate on effective strategies for enhancing the groundnut industry in Ghana. With the theme “Development Partners as…

CNFA (Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture) named Jamie Rhoads, the assistant director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut, the group’s volunteer of the year. Rhoads shares the honor with 30 volunteers in Southern Africa who worked together to train hundreds of farmers in peanut cultivation and aflatoxin management.  As a response to…

USAID is seeking information from stakeholders to help shape a planned five-year activity on nutrition. The Bureau for Global Health is designing a new nutrition activity to fill evidence gaps to improve outcomes through health systems while ensuring local partners design, implement, disseminate, and use such evidence for policies and programs. Four or five to-be-determined…

The Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab (SIIL) at Kansas State University‘s College of Agriculture is recruiting two Program Administrators to support the development of subcontract awards, research project monitoring, knowledge management, communication plans, and oversight of web-based reporting and event planning. One program administrator will work together with the SIIL Director, and others to coordinate and monitor…

The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement at Cornell University is looking for a research associate to lead on cross-cutting themes, including gender equity, youth inclusion, nutrition security, and resilience. The research associate will work on numerous objectives in research, capacity development, and engagement, including developing and implementing an overall strategy for these…

Wageningen University is advertising for a PhD candidate for a new position in Burkina Faso, co-supervised by a team of CIRAD, INERA and WUR-PPS researchers. This position will be part of the second phase of the 3F project, financed by the McKnight Foundation, and focus on “Increasing agrobiodiversity in Sudano‐Sahelian cropping systems ‐ Effect on…

Bob Kemerait, University of Georgia crop pathologist and longtime collaborator with the Peanut Innovation Lab, recently won the 2022 Service to American Agriculture Award from the National Association of County Agricultural Agents. Extension agents from both Georgia and Florida nominated Kemerait and – according to an announcement from the University of Florida – the nomination…