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  • Q&A with Rick Brandenburg: Southern Africa Value Chain Interventions

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    Rick Brandenburg is Lead Scientist on PMIL’s Southern Africa Value Chain Interventions project and a collaborator on both the Ghana and Haiti Value Chain projects. In addition to his work with PMIL, he is a Wm. Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Turfgrass Environmental Research and Education at North Carolina State University.

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  • PMIL participates in Innovation Labs partners meeting in Malawi

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    PMIL scientists, Dave Hoisington, Jamie Rhoads, Rick Brandenburg and Patrick Okori participated in the Feed the Future Innovation Labs Partners Meetings recently held in Lilongwe, Malawi. Fifteen of the twenty-four Innovation Labs were represented, along with several staff from USAID (Washington and regional missions) and many regional partners. The four-day event discussed current research progress…

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  • Feed the Future Innovation Labs partners meeting continues in Malawi

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    Follow the presentations and discussions from the Feed the Future Innovation Labs Partners Meeting in Malawi 20-23 April 2015. Throughout the conference Agrilinks will be keeping us up to date with blog posts, presentation takeaways and meeting content.

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  • Call for Concept Notes: Integrated Pest Management Strategies for Rice Pests in Cambodia

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    The USAID Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Integrated Pest Management at Virginia Tech invites the submission of concept notes from U.S. universities, CGIAR institutions, other International Agricultural Research Institutions, and host country institutions to compete to lead the Innovative scientific research and technology transfer to develop and implement integrated pest management strategies for rice pests in…

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  • PMIL’s Mark Manary making progress with Malnutrition Interventions project

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    March Project Notes  “Treating Pregnant Women with Moderate Malnutrition in Malawi.” Lead Researcher: Mark Manary, Washington University, St Louis, MO  Each month PMIL features updates on one or more of our research projects in our monthly newsletter and on our website and blog. Study Updates: Mark Manary returned from a trip in February of 2015…

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  • Lauren Singh: Malnutrition Interventions

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    Notes from the Field: Lauren Singh  Lauren Singh, research coordinator at Washington University working with Dr. Mark Manary, traveled to Blantyre, Malawi in January. Upon her return, she shared some of her experiences and photos from her first trip to Malawi to work on the study. “One of the most rewarding things was meeting the…

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  • APRES Nominations for Dow AgroSciences Awards in Excellence and Education

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    APRES is now accepting nominations for the Dow AgroSciences Awards in Excellence and Education. The award guidelines and nomination form are attached. Nominations will be made on the Nomination Form for Dow AgroSciences Awards. A nominator’s submittal letter summarizing the significant professional achievements and their impact on the peanut industry must be submitted with the…

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