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The Ghana Groundnut Working Group, a gathering of scientists, aggregators, farmers and others involved in the peanut value chain across Ghana met this month for the second annual conference. The two-day meeting convened in Tamale, Ghana, 11-12 March at the Modern City Hotel. The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut and David Jordan of…
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Mark Green, who directed USAID for two and a half years, is resigning and returning to private- sector work. Green, a former Republican congressman, drew bipartisan support in the Senate when he was confirmed USAID administrator in 2017. He led USAID with a philosophy that foreign aid programs should create independent systems so that aid…
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World Vegetable Center has three new openings for postdoc positions in Taiwan: Postdoctoral Scientist – Vegetable Breeding: https://avrdc.org/download/jobs/jobs-intl/2020-HQ-001-Postdoctoral-Scientist-Vegetable-Breeding.pdf Postdoctoral Scientist – Phenotyping: https://avrdc.org/download/jobs/jobs-intl/2020-HQ-002-Postdoctoral-Scientist-Phenotyping.pdf Postdoctoral Scientist – Plant Pathology: https://avrdc.org/download/jobs/jobs-intl/2020-HQ-003-Postdoctoral-Scientist-Plant-Pathology.pdf The deadline for applications is 15 April 2020.
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The American Peanut Council has postponed this year’s International Peanut Forum which was planned for April 22-24. “We take the health and safety of our delegates, speakers, and staff seriously and have been closely following the travel advisories and other restrictions issued due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” the organization said in an announcement. “We are…
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University of Georgia plant pathologist and the expert behind the state’s risk management tool for peanut, PeanutRx, Bob Kemerait has been awarded funding as a Fulbright Specialist to lecture and advise through Mariano Marcos State University in the Philippines. Kemerait will work in the Philippines in the last part of March and the first part…
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Funding is available for 20 scholars from African universities or research institutes to attend this year’s International Consortium on Applied Bioeconomy Research, but the deadline to apply is fast approaching. This conference, held in Cordoba, Argentina, has the theme “Accelerating Bioeconomy Growth Through Applied Research and Policy Change.” Applicants go through the regular abstract process…
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The Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement soon will begin accepting applications for Centers of Innovation, National Agriculture Research System institutions that would work with the innovation lab on crop improvement research, variety development and release. Projects through the ILCI must be led by a Principal Investigator (PI) based at a NARS institution from a Feed the Future target…