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The U.S. Agency for International Development will bring together experts in food safety next week for a webinar on the topic of enormous importance to farmers in developing countries. Meeting food safety standards is an increasing constraint to market access for farmers in developing countries. Recent studies show that the global health burden of foodborne disease…
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The U.S. Agency for International Development will hold a session at next week’s meeting of the American Peanut Research and Education Society meeting in Clearwater, Fla., on peanut in the international arena. “The Role and Future of USAID in Peanuts,” will be held Monday, July 11 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the Water’s Edge…
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Visitors can listen in online to a session of the 2016 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) meeting, which will talk about different economic aspects of scaling up production of soybean – and agricultural intensification in general – in the tropics on Aug. 2 at 7:45 a.m. Eastern Time. The session, Soybean Expansion in the…
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The PASET Initiative of the Association of African Universities has issued a Request for Applications to host PhD Programs financed by the Regional Scholarship and Innovation Fund.
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Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Ghana has received accreditation from the National Accreditation Board to run post-graduate degree programmes with a more practical orientation. The CSIR-Crops Research Institute, the largest of the 13 Institutes of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research announces an MPhil Plant Breeding and Biotechnology programme in August/September, 2016.…
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The World Vegetable Center based in Tainan, Taiwan is seeking a deputy director general for research. The deadline to apply is 15 July. Key responsibilities include working collaboratively with the senior management team, regional directors and others to update the center’s research strategy, while leading the development of outcome-focused operational plans, providing clarity on time…
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The Global Food Security Index, a gauge of how accessible food is around the world, found this month that most countries are becoming more food secure, even as they face long-term and new challenges to getting enough nutrition. The 2016 report, released earlier this month, found that 89 of the 113 countries in the index…
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