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The U.S. Borlaug Fellows in Global Food Security Program will hold its fifth annual Summer Institute on Global Food Security Sunday, June 5 to Saturday, June 18, 2016 on the campus of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. This two-week learning program is for graduate students who are interested in developing a holistic understanding of…
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A new World Health Organization report paints the most complete picture yet of the worldwide cost of foodborne diseases, which kill 420,000 people a year. Those most at risk are children 5 and under, and the regions most affected are Africa and Southeast Asia, the report found. The report includes estimates of the burden of…
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On Dec. 10 at noon GMT (7 a.m. EST), the Africa South of the Sahara Food Security Portal (https://ssa.foodsecurityportal.org/regional-sub-portal/sub-saharan-africa) will host a virtual dialogue on fertilizer use in Africa. This event will bring together regional experts to engage with online participants in order to share information, discuss progress and constraints, and brainstorm new ideas to…
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AMITSA, a regional agricultural input market information system in Africa, has merged with AfricaFertilizer.org (AFO) which launched a new monthly fertilizer information bulletin (Fertinews East and Southern Africa) in collaboration with the East and Southern Africa Trade Platform. The merger will allow AMITSA readers to get the best of information in the fertilizer industry, the…
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The Partnership for Aflatoxin Control in Africa (PACA) has documented the proceedings from a two-day workshop in Senegal held to review the progress of aflatoxin-control programs and to continue to work toward aflatoxin control across the continent. “Revamping the Groundnut Value Chain of West Africa through Aflatoxin Mitigation” was held September 1-2, 2015, in Dakar,…
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The Biosciences eastern and central Africa – International Livestock Research Institute (BecA-ILRI) Hub, located in Nairobi, Kenya, is soliciting fellowship applications from scientists affiliated (through employment) with an African National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) or university, and conducting research in the areas of food and nutritional security or food safety in Africa. BecA-ILRI Hub’s mission is…
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The International Fertilizer Development Center is holding a week-long training on DSSAT (the Decision Support System for Agro-technology Transfer, a software application program made up of crop simulation models for over 42 crops) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from March 2-9, 2016. The training is held in partnership with the DSSAT Foundation and Washington State University.…