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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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Universities in Africa and African-born academics in the United States and Canada can now apply for funding to take part in joint projects as part of the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP). Carnegie Corporation of New York has announced a renewal grant to the Institute of International Education that aims to support 140 collaborative…
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Floods followed by drought have led to a 30 per cent reduction in Malawi’s maize harvest and left the country facing its most severe food crisis for over ten years. Between now and March, more than two million Malawians will struggle to find enough food, the UN’s World Food Programme forecasts. Read more on the…
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