In the Media
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Feed the Future’s annual progress report is out and provides a thought-provoking snapshot of how the program has touched the lives of people in partner countries. While the report includes statistics worth celebrating – nearly half of partner counties had a reduction in childhood stunting over the past few years – it also details areas…
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The Full Belly Project, a nonprofit that builds small-scale shellers for nuts, has renewed plans to distribute 105 machines in Zambia. The Wilmington, N.C.-based group announced recently that it plans to build and deploy 105 its Universal Nut Shellers to farmers in villages surrounding Chipata to help increase the food supply and farmers’ incomes. The…
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The 48th Annual Meeting of the American Peanut Research and Education Society ended with awards and recognition for outstanding achievement in research and dedication to the industry. Among those recognized were: Tim Brenneman, who received the Coyt T. Wilson Distinguished Service Award. Brenneman is a professor of plant pathology at the University of Georgia and…
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Making use of the training he received through the Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab, Ethiopian graduate student Abdi Hassen recently taught the aflatoxin detection technique he learned in the U.S. to supervisors and colleagues in his home country.
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A new report by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) found that aflatoxin likely is causing widespread stunting in children throughout Africa and Asia. The results and analysis of possible interventions are published in the report Mycotoxin Control in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, which is…
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Dr. Peggy Ozias-Akins, PMIL Lead Scientist and a professor in the Department of Horticulture and director of the University of Georgia (UGA) Institute for the Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics, has won the D.W. Brooks Distinguished Professor Award. The award recognizes her 30-year career at UGA developing new breeding techniques for peanuts.
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Director Dr. Dave Hoisington, Lead Scientist Dr. Peggy Ozias-Akins and Collaborator Dr. David Okello of the Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab are featured in the University of Georgia Research Magazine Fall 2015 issue for their research contributions to alleviate hunger and malnutrition worldwide. Read the full article.
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