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  • SciDev.Net: Malawi’s toxic harvest

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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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  • Global Harvest Initiative Blog Series: Building Sustainable Breadbaskets

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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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  • Your favorite dish could be the source of cancer

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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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  • PMIL Lead Scientist Peggy Ozias-Akins Quoted in UK Guardian Article on Future of Food

    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…

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  • Visiting Scientist Conducts Research on Peanut Pathogen at UGA Griffin

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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…

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  • UGA pathologist works to help peanut farmers abroad

    UGA Pathologist Works to Help Farmers Abroad Published July 2015 – Tifton Scene Magazine Writer Clint Thompson

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  • PMIL Lead Scientist Greg MacDonald in Growing Georgia: Researching 1,500 Peanuts, One Variety at a Time

    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…

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