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The University of Johannesburg (UJ) in collaboration with the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST) South Africa will hold the 2016 Autumn International Scientific Conference on Food Security and Safety 16 to 18 May. Food security revolves around four major aspects: Availability, access, stability and utilization. In the…
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Feed the Future will host a webinar Thursday recapping the Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) project, an effort to promote smart regulations and efficient regulatory processes to support agribusiness. In a recently released report, EBA compared policies in 40 countries in six regions on the topics of seed, fertilizer, machinery, finance, transport, and markets.…
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African Agribusiness Incubators Network (AAIN) is soliciting for business ideas and solutions from organizations and individuals focused on innovative agribusiness incubation. The investment financing is to help support solutions or start small scale agribusiness incubators along different value chains. AAIN has established the AAIF to support emerging businesses and small- to medium-scale incubators to deepen…
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MIT’s Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation (CITE), is taking proposals for technical projects that could use a comprehensive evaluation. In the upcoming fiscal year, CITE will be conducting several evaluations, but since this is the final year of the current round of funding from USAID, CITE will place particular emphasis on projects that can be completed…
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Rick Brandenburg, who leads the Southern Africa Value Chain project for PMIL, recently was recognized by North Carolina State University International Affairs at the Global Engagement Exposition. The event recognizes individuals across the university in four categories and includes presentations focused on global research and scholarly programs. Congratulations to Dr. Brandenburg, seen here with Provost…
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USAID’s East Africa Resilience Learning Project (RLP) is looking for a senior manager to work out of its headquarters at Tufts University. The center’s goal is to develop and promote operational and policy responses to protect and strengthen the livelihoods of people living in marginalized communities or who are impacted by crisis and violence, malnutrition…
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Ethiopian plant pathologist Abdi Hassen (left) and fellow graduate student Solomon Debele recently trained an additional 15 colleagues in a new system to detect aflatoxin contamination in food grains. The students all are masters or PhD students in plant pathology or seed science at Haramaya University in eastern Ethiopia. Hassen, who is expected to receive…
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