October 2015
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Esther Akoto is an MSc student from Ghana mentored by Dr. Jinru Chen in the Department of Food Science & Technology at the University of Georgia, Griffin campus. She has been working on control of Aflatoxin contamination in peanuts using composting as part of the Ghana Peanut Value Chain Interventions project for the past year.…
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Dr. Jia-Sheng Wang is a UGA Athletic Association Professor in Public Health, and Department Head at the University of Georgia in the Department of Environmental Health Science. He is currently leading the Mycotoxin Detection in Dried Blood project supported by the Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab, which support urgent needs in nutritional and intervention studies…
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Universities in Africa and African-born academics in the United States and Canada can now apply for funding to take part in joint projects as part of the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP). Carnegie Corporation of New York has announced a renewal grant to the Institute of International Education that aims to support 140 collaborative…
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Floods followed by drought have led to a 30 per cent reduction in Malawi’s maize harvest and left the country facing its most severe food crisis for over ten years. Between now and March, more than two million Malawians will struggle to find enough food, the UN’s World Food Programme forecasts. Read more on the…
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To accompany the release of its sixth annual Global Agricultural Productivity Report (GAP Report) on October 14th, Global Harvest Initiative has invited experts in agriculture, conservation, food security, and nutrition to contribute perspectives and insights for a special Harvest 2050 blog series. This week’s focus is “Fighting Hunger from the Ground Up” and “(Bio)Fueling the…
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We are pleased to announce the second round of IMMANA Fellowships, for which we will award six 12-month Fellowships to early career researchers using, developing, or adapting new methodological approaches in low- and middle-income countries. Recruitment and support for IMMANA Fellowships is led by the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University,…
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Join us for an exciting symposium entitled “Little Beans, Big Opportunities: Realizing the Potential of Pulses to Meet Today’s Global Health Challenges” to be held at the Sackler Institute for Nutritional Science. This is an inaugural event to celebrate the “2016 International Year of Pulses” as declared by the United Nations. For more information on…
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