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The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) of South Africa funds the development of competitive processed food, beverage, fiber, forestry and derivative industry that optimally utilizes and develops local and regional resources to supply domestic demand and increase participation in international trade. This will be achieved by expanding production capacity and promoting value adding expansionary agro processing…
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Dr. Peggy Ozias-Akins, PMIL Lead Scientist and a professor in the Department of Horticulture and director of the University of Georgia (UGA) Institute for the Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics, has won the D.W. Brooks Distinguished Professor Award. The award recognizes her 30-year career at UGA developing new breeding techniques for peanuts.
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The Trellis Fund will offer 15 grants, up to $2,000 each, to local organizations for six-month projects that address horticultural challenges in the region. Organizations in Feed the Future countries — including Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Rwanda, Senegal, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia — are eligible…
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Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) requests Expressions of Interest (EOI) for consultancy services to develop the COMESA Aflatoxin Regional Action Plan. COMESA has received funding from the Partnership for Aflatoxin Control in Africa (PACA) towards the cost of Regional Workshop on the Aflatoxin Challenge in Eastern and Southern Africa (conducted in March…
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Director Dr. Dave Hoisington, Lead Scientist Dr. Peggy Ozias-Akins and Collaborator Dr. David Okello of the Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab are featured in the University of Georgia Research Magazine Fall 2015 issue for their research contributions to alleviate hunger and malnutrition worldwide. Read the full article.
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Esther Akoto is an MSc student from Ghana mentored by Dr. Jinru Chen in the Department of Food Science & Technology at the University of Georgia, Griffin campus. She has been working on control of Aflatoxin contamination in peanuts using composting as part of the Ghana Peanut Value Chain Interventions project for the past year.…
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Dr. Jia-Sheng Wang is a UGA Athletic Association Professor in Public Health, and Department Head at the University of Georgia in the Department of Environmental Health Science. He is currently leading the Mycotoxin Detection in Dried Blood project supported by the Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab, which support urgent needs in nutritional and intervention studies…
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