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The University of Georgia’s Department of Crop and Soil Sciences is hiring for a tenure-track, 12-month position (75% Research and 25% Extension) in crop physiology with a focus on peanut. This position will be located on the Tifton Campus of the University of Georgia. The successful candidate will be expected to develop a research program…
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The Geospatial and Farming Systems Research Consortium, funded by the Feed the Future Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab and in partnership with the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, will host a five-day hands-on workshop on data science for agricultural development 15-19 August in Arusha, Tanzania. All Feed the Future Innovation Lab partners working in Tanzania and…
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PeanutBase, a database of research and resources about the peanut genome, has launched a quarterly update to inform users about important new information on the site and give tips about how to use it. The PeanutBase collection of reports and other publications is compiled with the support of The Peanut Foundation, as part of the…
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The West African Research Association and The MasterCard Foundation is offering the Ideas Matter Fellowship Program for West African doctoral students conducting research on the continent. Doctoral students whose dissertation research focuses on women, technology or entrepreneurship and who are based in West African institutions are invited to apply. The call for applications is available…
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Sponsors including the Africa Union’s Partnership for Aflatoxin Control (PACA), Abt Associates, the Schooner Africa Fund, AGCO/GSI and GrainPro brought together leaders last week for the first Africa Strategic Grain Reserve Conference, which touched on a variety of storage challenges, including aflatoxin control. The event – which was held in Nairobi – gave a chance…
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The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations is hiring a senior agricultural officer to work out of the Office of the Assistant Director-General in Agriculture in Rome. The position has a two-year term.
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Aflatoxin contamination can cost smallholder farmers at the market and leave them with potentially dangerous food to feed their families, but a few simple techniques have been proven to reduce the likelihood and severity of contamination. The Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab has created an infographic to relay that important information to farmers and consumers…