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Today is the last day to apply for the 2017 AWARD AgTech Innovation Challenge for West and North Africa. Institutions or enterprises interested in applying may do so by submitting the online application form. Gender Agribusiness Investments for Africa (GAIA), a program launched by African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD), is accepting applications…
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Nominations have opened for the 2017 Africa Food Prize, a prestigious award that recognizes outstanding individuals or institutions leading the effort to change the reality of farming in Africa from a struggle to survive to a business that thrives. The $100,000 prize celebrates Africans who are taking control of the agriculture agenda, highlighting initiatives and…
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The National Peanut Board created a short, fast-paced recipe video that illustrates several recommended ways to introduce peanuts to babies. Check out the video and related infographics. The recipes, including thinned peanut butter, powdered peanut butter in applesauce, and peanut butter pureed with strawberries, follow new early introduction guidelines for peanuts from the National Institute…
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International Women’s Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. Women farmers across the global are responsible for the peanut harvest. But women also conduct field research, work in seed multiplication projects, process peanut…
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The International Institute for Environment and Development has released a policy briefing detailing the trade-offs necessary to feed a growing population in Sub- Saharan Africa, while conserving forest and biodiversity. Africa is home to 25 percent of the world’s remaining rainforests, but lost an estimated 15.6 million hectares of forest between 2010 and 2015, according to IIED.…
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The new newsletter is out for Peanut Base, the Peanut Genomics Initiative’s collection of online resources for the peanut research community. Peanut Base is touting: The PeanutBase 2017 survey. Feedback will help Peanut Base improve the site. New markers and the Arachis SNP chip: 15,746 SNPs from the new Arachis SNP chip (Pandey, et al.,…
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On this year’s International Women’s Day, Feed the Future’s communications team, Agrilinks, will host “Women Without Borders: Gender and Informal Cross-Border Trade,” a live event in Washington, D.C. that you can stream online. The webinar will be March 8 from 9:30 to 11 a.m. EST. Links to register, both to participate in-person or for the…