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  • Q&A with Nick Magnan: Interventions to Decrease Mycotoxin Risks in Ghana

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    Dr. Nick Magnan is the Lead Scientist on PMIL’s, “Producer and Consumer Interventions to Decrease Peanut Mycotoxin Risks” in Ghana project. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in international development. Nick’s…

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  • Visiting Scientist Conducts Research on Peanut Pathogen at UGA Griffin

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    Visiting scientist conducts research on peanut pathogen at UGA Griffin Published August 26th, 2015 in Georgia FACES Writers Sharon Dowdy and Christy Fricks Photographer Christy Fricks A native of Ghana, Maxwell Lamptey is visiting the University of Georgia in the hopes of learning new methods of fighting aflatoxin—a carcinogen produced by soil fungus that can…

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  • 2015 APRES meeting materials released to public

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    APRES announces that the 2015 APRES Annual Meeting was one of the most well attended meetings in recent memory. Highlights of the meeting can be found on the APRES website home page.  Presentations are available from the General Session and Peanut Post Harvest Quality Symposium.    

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  • Q&A with Kumar Mallikarjunan: Mycotoxin Detection Options

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    Kumar Mallikarjunan is a Professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA. Kumar has been involved with the USAID funded peanut projects for almost 20 years – formerly with the Peanut CRSP and now with the Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab. He is currently the Lead Scientist on the Mycotoxin Detection Options…

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  • Q&A with PMIL Student Maxwell Lamptey: Solar Drying to Control Aflatoxin Contamination in Peanut

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    Maxwell Lamptey is participating in a short-term training program supported by the Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab from March to September 2015. As a Senior Technical Officer working on legumes at the Crops Research Institute (CRI) in Kumasi, Ghana, Maxwell was nominated for the program by CRI Deputy Director Emmanuel Otoo. During his time in…

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  • International collaborators attend events in USA

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    A group of International PMIL Collaborators from Africa and Haiti were joined by partners from the USA, during 2 weeks in July of 2015, to tour the USDA core germplasm collection planted at the University of Florida’s Plant Science Research and Education Unit in Citra, Florida USA. Most of the partners then traveled to Charleston, South Carolina…

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  • Agrilinks Training: An Introduction to Resilience at USAID and Beyond

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    Chronic poverty and recurrent shocks—like droughts, floods, and conflict—are driving many of the same communities into crisis year after year. In partnership with host governments, regional institutions, and other humanitarian and development partners, USAID is helping the global community pivot from being reactive in the wake of disaster to driving evidence-based investments that enable people,…

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