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To accompany the release of its sixth annual Global Agricultural Productivity Report (GAP Report) on October 14th, Global Harvest Initiative has invited experts in agriculture, conservation, food security, and nutrition to contribute perspectives and insights for a special Harvest 2050 blog series. This week’s focus is “Fighting Hunger from the Ground Up” and “(Bio)Fueling the…
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We are pleased to announce the second round of IMMANA Fellowships, for which we will award six 12-month Fellowships to early career researchers using, developing, or adapting new methodological approaches in low- and middle-income countries. Recruitment and support for IMMANA Fellowships is led by the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University,…
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Join us for an exciting symposium entitled “Little Beans, Big Opportunities: Realizing the Potential of Pulses to Meet Today’s Global Health Challenges” to be held at the Sackler Institute for Nutritional Science. This is an inaugural event to celebrate the “2016 International Year of Pulses” as declared by the United Nations. For more information on…
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The Bureau for Food Security, Office of Agricultural Research and Policy, would like to invite Mission agriculture, food security and nutrition staff to participate in the Feed the Future Innovation Labs Regional Partners Meeting. 1-3 February 2016 – Port-au-Prince, Haiti
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The Supervisory Agricultural Research Specialist: Serves as the agency expert and coordinator in agricultural research for development activities, providing intellectual leadership; generating policy recommendations, interventions, and agency mechanisms; and initiating new research partnerships within the international agricultural and food security development area, to include research on crop and animal improvement, agronomy, farming systems, sustainable intensification,…
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Every night, nearly 800 million people go to bed hungry. We can do better. This week the Feed the Future Innovation Labs are meeting in Washington DC USA to discuss their direct impact on food security. Read about their impact in the Feed the Future 2015 Results Summary, and get involved through the Feed the…
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What is the best way to help people in developing countries build food security? That’s the question at the center of University of Georgia agricultural economist Nick Magnan’s research. Read the full article about Nick on Georgia FACES. Read about Nick’s research in more detail.
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