Field Notes
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PMIL partner Meds & Food for Kids is taking on an interesting project with the University of Haiti to plant model gardens that incorporate poultry into production. Sponsored by EU-affiliated Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), the Faculty of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine of the University of Haiti (FAMV-UEH) is establishing five community…
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A well-made video about aflatoxin — where it comes from, how it increases and how to discourage it — has been translated into eight African languages and made available for download in several formats depending on the technology needs of the viewer. The McKnight Foundation funded the video, which was filmed in South America and…
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Feed the Future’s Gender, Climate Change and Nutrition Integration Initiative (GCAN) is looking for up to four students (advanced MA or PhD level) who are interested in working on the intersection of climate, gender and nutrition using Feed-the-Future datasets. Through the GCAN Student Challenge, these students will explore how climate, gender and nutrition intersect to…
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The National Peanut Board has compiled onto one webpage several interesting and attractive graphics the organization commissioned to explain how sustainable groundnuts can be. The graphics – which you can access here – stress how peanuts consume relatively little water, improve soil quality and can produce a crop even in irregular weather because of the…
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Agrilinks is holding a webinar showcasing the applied research of three Feed the Future Innovation Labs and their contributions to on-the-ground development impact. Leaders from the Feed the Future Innovation Labs for Nutrition, Soybean and Reduction of Post-Harvest Loss will present examples of how U.S. universities are leading the development of tools and innovations that…
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Join in the discussion beginning Wednesday, July 12 about youth engagement in agriculture in Africa. The forum, which will last a month, is sponsored by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), CGIAR Research Program on Livestock, the Climate Smart Agriculture Youth Network (CSAYN), AgriProFocus, and ICCO Cooperation. Discussion will…
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USAID/BFS’s Division for Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) is looking for researchers interested in an opportunity to support research through analyses on Feed the Future (FTF) and other food security data sets that have been collected over the life of the initiative. The agency is looking for recent master’s or PhD graduates from a social…