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Peanut and Mycotoxin Innovation Lab partners returned to work just a day after Hurricane Matthew swept through the country. While the storm killed at least 280 people in Haiti, PMIL partners in the northern part of the country were mostly unscathed. Meds & Food for Kids, which makes peanut-based therapeutic food and conducts agricultural research…
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The U.S. government has defined the strategy it will use to fight hunger across the world over the next four years, including the whole-of-government approach that applies to Feed the Future Innovation Labs. Previously a presidential initiate, Feed the Future became U.S. law this summer, making the program a permanent part of the U.S. government.…
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will allow peanuts to be called “healthy,” the National Peanut Board announced. This week, FDA started the public process to redefine what foods can claim on their label to have healthy nutrient content. In the interim, FDA has issued guidelines that allows industry to refer to peanuts as healthy,…
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The Global Forum for Agricultural Research’s Gender in Agriculture Partnership (GAP) has organized a webinar for 4 October on three on-going initiatives to mainstream sex-disaggregated data and gender indicators in national agricultural censuses and surveys, and in agricultural development projects. As the first of a series developed by the GAP group this webinar will discuss…
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The InterDrought-V conference is offering 100 fellowship awards to young scientists from developing countries who have made notable research contributions in the areas of drought and stress tolerance in plants. The conference will be held 21-25 Feb. 2017 in Hyderabad, India. The awards will include 20 grants for airfare, hotel and conference registration; 40 grants…
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Agribusiness investor AgDevCo will put $1.5 million into a Malawian peanut processor that aims to make the country an exporter again. The company, Afri-Oils Limited, is building a new processing facility to handle locally grown peanuts, and estimates that the company will provide higher incomes for 18,000 Malawian smallholder farmers by marketing nuts in regional…
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Over two weeks in September, the Platform for African-European Partnership in Agricultural Research for Development Phase (PAEPARD) will hold a pair of online debates with some 300 experts or actors which are implementing research and development activities related to aflatoxin. The International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the International Centre of Insect Physiology and…