alfloyd
-
The U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security (USAID/REFS) is taking input in two areas as the agency weighs new projects that would use genomics to improve food security in two specific areas in Feed the Future focus countries. In one call for information, USAID hopes to identify pressing challenges…
Posted in: News -
The Ghana Groundnut Working Group held its 2024 meeting in Tamale on 10 and 11 October, after postponing the gathering earlier this year due to the unexpected death of an important member. Moses B. Mochiah, the director of the Crops Research Institute, collapsed and died in July while working with graduate students. An entomologist, Mochiah…
Posted in: News -
This past week, the National Semi-Arid Resources Research Institute (NaSARRI) in Uganda marked its 102nd anniversary and World Food Day 2024 with a celebration that officially launched three new groundnut varieties. Enthusiastic farmers attended the event in Serere to gather information to help enhance their crop productivity. NARO Nut 5R, 4R, and 3R promise improved…
Posted in: News -
Rick Brandenburg, a longtime collaborator with the Peanut Innovation Lab, won the Coyt T. Wilson Distinguished Service Award at the American Peanut Research and Education Society meeting in July. He recently shared his thoughts on the importance of research and the role of APRES for an article in Southeast Farm Press.
Posted in: News -
Organizers and officials talk about the tour’s goals, while cameras capture the sites that participants visited over two days.
Posted in: News -
Ten years ago, the Georgia Peanut Tour welcomed its first visitor from the Southern African nation of Malawi, where peanuts are part of the local cuisine but are mostly grown in small gardens or bought in informal markets. Over the next decade, visitors from Malawi attended the tour every year, traveling halfway around the world to see…
Posted in: News -
USAID Administrator Samantha Power traveled to Georgia on Friday and spoke at an event announcing expansion of the MANA plant that produces ready-to-use therapeutic food. The plant in Fitzgerald, Ga. employs 60 local people and can produce up to 121,000 pounds of RUTF per day, enough for 1 million children a year, but 45 million…
Posted in: News