Events
-
The International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) has set its calendar of trainings for the year. The events generally offer a discounted rate for early registration. Here are the trainings for 2017: May 8-12, Linking Farmers to Markets in Africa (English Edition), Accra, Ghana June 5-9, Developing Private Sector Agro-Input Markets: Designing and Implementing Targeted Input…
-
The American Peanut Research and Education Society has started accepting abstracts to present at the 49th Annual Meeting scheduled for July 11-13 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. APRES members who wish to present original papers or posters at the 2017 APRES Annual Meeting, which will be held at the Hotel Albuquerque, should submit an abstract online…
-
Feed the Future and USAID is soliciting feedback from the research community about opportunities to accelerate progress in breeding programs for important crops such as peanut, common beans, cassava, and banana. Advancement may take advantage of opportunities offered by genomics tools and other cutting-edge technologies that could be applied to accelerating breeding. “Through Feed the…
-
USAID’s Innovation for Agricultural Training and Education (innovATE) program has scheduled a two-day symposium in June to bring together educators, international development practitioners, government representatives, private sector players and USAID officers and staff to share expertise and experiences. The conversation will focus on insights about policies that help to develop or strengthen agricultural education and…
-
Feed the Future Innovation Labs’ Regional Partners Meeting has been scheduled for 6-9 February 2017 in Dakar, Senegal. The Bureau for Food Security, Office of Agricultural Research and Policy, invites Mission agriculture, food security and nutrition staff to participate in the meeting, which will be held at the King Fahd Palace Hotel. The meeting will…
-
The deadline is approaching to submit an abstract for the IV International Symposium on Postharvest Pathology, which will be held in South Africa in May 2017. The conference is organised by the University of Pretoria, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences under the auspices of ISHS (International Society for Horticultural Science) and ISPP (International Society…
Posted in: Events -
As agriculture leaders from around the world gather in Iowa to celebrate this year’s World Food Prize laureates and discuss challenges and opportunities related to food security, many of the meetings will be live-streamed and webcast for people who could not attend. Keep up with what’s going on via Twitter — #WorldFoodPrize – or log…