Events
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The U.S. Agency for International Development will bring together experts in food safety next week for a webinar on the topic of enormous importance to farmers in developing countries. Meeting food safety standards is an increasing constraint to market access for farmers in developing countries. Recent studies show that the global health burden of foodborne disease…
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The U.S. Agency for International Development will hold a session at next week’s meeting of the American Peanut Research and Education Society meeting in Clearwater, Fla., on peanut in the international arena. “The Role and Future of USAID in Peanuts,” will be held Monday, July 11 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the Water’s Edge…
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Visitors can listen in online to a session of the 2016 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) meeting, which will talk about different economic aspects of scaling up production of soybean – and agricultural intensification in general – in the tropics on Aug. 2 at 7:45 a.m. Eastern Time. The session, Soybean Expansion in the…
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The Geospatial and Farming Systems Research Consortium, funded by the Feed the Future Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab and in partnership with the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, will host a five-day hands-on workshop on data science for agricultural development 15-19 August in Arusha, Tanzania. All Feed the Future Innovation Lab partners working in Tanzania and…
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Feed the Future has scheduled a 24-hour online discussion about the future of peanut research and asks people from around the world to share their questions, thoughts and opinions about the direction research should take in coming years. The discussion will span 14-15 June and give participants a chance to learn about current research and…
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The Second International Legume Society Conference, held by the International Legume Society and the Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, will be held 12-14 October, 2016 at Tróia resort near Lisbon, Portugal. The conference will address:
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The Partnership for Aflatoxin Control in Africa will hold its second biennial partnership platform meeting on 11-13 October in Kampala, Uganda. The meeting will provide an opportunity for stakeholders to share lessons and information, engage and deepen partnerships to create synergies, and alignment around current and future aflatoxin-control efforts on the continent. Under the auspices…