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A video of a recent round-table discussion titled “Building a multi-stakeholder approach to mitigate aflatoxin contamination of food and feed” held in Brussels on 25 January is now online. Dozens of experts from Europe, Africa and the U.S., representing the public agencies, the private sector and NGOs attended the one-day session Go to the Management…
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A regional partners meeting of Feed the Future Innovation Labs planned for early next month in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, has been postponed. Originally set for Feb. 1 and 2, the meeting was called by the Bureau for Food Security, Office of Agricultural Research and Policy, to bring together mission agriculture, food security and nutrition staff from…
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The online course “Leaders of change: Helping African policymakers develop their capacity to promote the use of knowledge in policy” is starting on March 28. The deadline to submit applications is March 2. Politics & Ideas, the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP ) and INASP will support, with full scholarships, the involvement of those…
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SEED (Sow and Encourage Economic Development) Foundation is taking 2016 grant proposals for pilot projects that are based on an innovative agricultural development in one of the program’s target countries in Africa. The call for proposal aims at financing the pilot phase of an innovative project. Therefore, SEED Foundation takes the role of an incubator…
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A representative from the Syngenta Foundation will present information about Farmforce, a software and mobile app that provides electronic traceability on the farm and improves overall information management for outgrowers, in a webinar on Tuesday, Jan. 26 at 10 a.m. Eastern Time. Farmforce was developed by the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Development and is being…
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Mars has made another partnership to work on aflatoxin control, this time in India. The company announced a collaboration Wednesday, Jan. 6 with the Tata Trusts, one of the oldest and most influential philanthropic organizations in India, to work to find solutions to malnutrition and improving food safety. Mars will draw on the Global Food…
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Aflatoxins are dangerous substances that can kill livestock and people. They can destroy trade and steal the hope for a little cash that a smallholder farmer has in his crop. So, why not give up on crops like groundnuts and maize? Why fight for a crop that might turn bitter? Because peanuts also save lives.…
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