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  • Mastercard announced this week that the financial service company has developed a mobile technology specifically for farmers in East Africa. The platform, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will help farmers buy inputs and sell crop more efficiently, as well as create a credit history for future borrowing. The platform works from mobile…

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  • Indepth Research Services (IRES), a Nairobi-based training and consultancy organization, is hiring seven employees to offer technical training and education services to individuals and organizations working in the agriculture, climate change and environment; disaster management; and other areas. The seven Learning Advisor positions are for experts in: Research, Data Management and Statistics Institute Project Management,…

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  • The American Peanut Research and Education Society has started accepting abstracts to present at the 49th Annual Meeting scheduled for July 11-13 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. APRES members who wish to present original papers or posters at the 2017 APRES Annual Meeting, which will be held at the Hotel Albuquerque, should submit an abstract online…

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  • Feed the Future and USAID is soliciting feedback from the research community about opportunities to accelerate progress in breeding programs for important crops such as peanut, common beans, cassava, and banana. Advancement may take advantage of opportunities offered by genomics tools and other cutting-edge technologies that could be applied to accelerating breeding. “Through Feed the…

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  • Do you have a winning photograph in your camera? Feed the Future is taking entries through this month for its annual global photo contest. Photos help tell the story of how Feed the Future is helping millions of farmers and their families build a better life through improved food security and nutrition. You can enter…

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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 proceedings from the 2016 meeting of the American Peanut Research and Education Society in Clearwater, Fla., has been posted. The document is searchable, bookmarked by section; the author index, starting on page 274, makes it easy to locate information by author name.  A quick summary of the meeting can be found on page 270.…

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