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Mark Green, a former Republican Congressman from Wisconsin and ambassador to Tanzania has been confirmed as administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Green was endorsed by lawmakers from both parties and many nonprofit aid groups. USAID administers more than $20 billion in foreign assistance each year, including assistance in health, education, environment,…
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Alice Mutiti Mweetwa, a collaborating scientist with the Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab, has won the 2017 Young African Researchers Award for her contributions to agriculture and food sciences. Mweetwa is a senior lecturer and the assistant director of the Directorate of Research and Graduate Studies at the University of Zambia. She was nominated by…
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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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Trade and partnership development can make all the difference for a young agribusiness. That’s why the Global African Agribusiness Accelerator Platform (GAAAP) is holding a workshop that introduces key resources that youth involved in agriculture and agribusiness can access to become active in new or existing value chains and through development of trade linkages and…
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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…