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Floods followed by drought have led to a 30 per cent reduction in Malawi’s maize harvest and left the country facing its most severe food crisis for over ten years. Between now and March, more than two million Malawians will struggle to find enough food, the UN’s World Food Programme forecasts. Read more on the […]
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To accompany the release of its sixth annual Global Agricultural Productivity Report (GAP Report) on October 14th, Global Harvest Initiative has invited experts in agriculture, conservation, food security, and nutrition to contribute perspectives and insights for a special Harvest 2050 blog series. This week’s focus is “Fighting Hunger from the Ground Up” and “(Bio)Fueling the […]
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It is not chips or rolex that I am writing about. It is rather maize flour, your favorite ground nut paste and off-the-shelf baby foods that are increasingly conquering our food menus in Uganda. As David Okello, a researcher with the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) and Peanut and Mycotoxin Innovation Lab (PMIL), discovered along […]
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The future of food: from jellyfish salad to lab-grown meat Published September 13, 2015 in the UK Guardian Writer Nicola Davis ALLERGY-FREE PEANUTS If there’s one commodity the food industry could be expected to shell out for, it’s hypoallergenic peanuts. An estimated 1.4-3.0% of children in western countries are allergic to them, putting the kibosh on the consumption of a host of comestibles. But if a small startup has its way, that could all change.
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Visiting scientist conducts research on peanut pathogen at UGA Griffin Published August 26th, 2015 in Georgia FACES Writers Sharon Dowdy and Christy Fricks Photographer Christy Fricks A native of Ghana, Maxwell Lamptey is visiting the University of Georgia in the hopes of learning new methods of fighting aflatoxin—a carcinogen produced by soil fungus that can grow on peanuts. Lamprey is working alongside UGA food scientist Jinru Chen on the university's campus in Griffin, Ga. He is studying different methods of solar drying peanuts.
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UGA Pathologist Works to Help Farmers Abroad Published July 2015 – Tifton Scene Magazine Writer Clint Thompson
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Researching 1,500 Peanuts, One Variety at a Time Published Tuesday, July 14th, 2015 – Growing Georgia By Allison Floyd In the late 1990s, tomato spotted wilt virus took a bite out of peanuts in the Southeast, claiming half of some farmers’ crop and about 10% of the overall yield in 1997. One of the most important factors in the battle against TSWV was lurking in a peanut variety from South America, which had natural resistance to the virus. “We were seeing 30 to 40 percent reductions in yield,” said Greg MacDonald, a weed scientist and agronomist who is working to evaluate and chronicle the traits of hundreds of varieties of peanuts stored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “Most all the runners now can be traced back to that one line, which is one of the reasons we maintain the collection.”
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