Field Notes
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A webinar will be conducted on Friday, March 23, from 2-3 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time to answer any questions related to two solicitations to work with the Peanut Innovation Lab. Concept notes for the projects on varietal development and value-added gains are due April 20. Meeting ID: 249 715 287 Join the webinar from PC,…
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The NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency (NEPAD Agency’s Skills and Employment for Youth Programme (SEFY) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) – Decent Rural Employment team in the Social Policies and Rural Institutions Division (ESP)) are holding a series of webinars on rural employment and child labour in agriculture. The webinars will showcase…
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The Mwalimu Nyerere African Union Scholarship is accepting applications for women pursuing a master’s degree or Ph.D in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) field. The closing date to apply is 30 April 2018. The scholarship covers tuition, living stipend, books, travel and other expenses. Applicants must:
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The deadline is Feb. 15 to register for the two-week GREAT Gender-Responsive Legume Breeding Course, which will be held in Kampala, Uganda in two sessions, from July 23 to Aug. 1, 2018 and Jan. 14-18, 2019. GREAT courses are intensive, cohort-based trainings for small interdisciplinary teams of researchers from leading agricultural research institutions across sub-Saharan…
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The University of Georgia has received a $14 million grant from the U.S. Agency of International Development to manage the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut Research, known as the “Peanut Lab,” a global peanut research program that works to alleviate hunger by helping farmers in developing countries grow healthy crops. The agreement builds…
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The American Peanut Research and Education Society is accepting abstracts for original papers or posters to be presented at the 2018 APRES Annual Meeting this summer. The July 10-12 gathering, the 50th annual meeting, will be held at the Doubletree Hotel in Williamsburg, Virginia. Early bird registration is $250 for APRES members; spouses and children…
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The deadline is approaching to register for the next International Fertilizer Development Center workshop, which will be held in Jinja, Uganda, the week of 19-23 February. “Developing Private Sector Input Markets: Lessons Learned and Emerging Perspectives on Subsidy Programs” will draw cover the successes and failures of subsidy programs, as well as strategies. Over the…