Events
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APRES (the American Peanut Research and Education Society) has put out a call for original papers or posters to be presented at the 2016 APRES Annual Meeting this July. Candidates should submit an abstract online at www.apresinc.com by March 31, 2016. Authors of both oral presentations and posters will be notified by May 1 if…
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A video of a recent round-table discussion titled “Building a multi-stakeholder approach to mitigate aflatoxin contamination of food and feed” held in Brussels on 25 January is now online. Dozens of experts from Europe, Africa and the U.S., representing the public agencies, the private sector and NGOs attended the one-day session Go to the Management…
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A representative from the Syngenta Foundation will present information about Farmforce, a software and mobile app that provides electronic traceability on the farm and improves overall information management for outgrowers, in a webinar on Tuesday, Jan. 26 at 10 a.m. Eastern Time. Farmforce was developed by the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Development and is being…
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The International Fertilizer Development Center has set its training schedule for 2016, beginning with Advanced Application of DSSAT in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from March 2-9. Other dates for 2016 include:
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The U.S. Borlaug Fellows in Global Food Security Program will hold its fifth annual Summer Institute on Global Food Security Sunday, June 5 to Saturday, June 18, 2016 on the campus of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. This two-week learning program is for graduate students who are interested in developing a holistic understanding of…
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On Dec. 10 at noon GMT (7 a.m. EST), the Africa South of the Sahara Food Security Portal (https://ssa.foodsecurityportal.org/regional-sub-portal/sub-saharan-africa) will host a virtual dialogue on fertilizer use in Africa. This event will bring together regional experts to engage with online participants in order to share information, discuss progress and constraints, and brainstorm new ideas to…
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The International Fertilizer Development Center is holding a week-long training on DSSAT (the Decision Support System for Agro-technology Transfer, a software application program made up of crop simulation models for over 42 crops) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from March 2-9, 2016. The training is held in partnership with the DSSAT Foundation and Washington State University.…