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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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  • 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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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