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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will allow peanuts to be called “healthy,” the National Peanut Board announced. This week, FDA started the public process to redefine what foods can claim on their label to have healthy nutrient content. In the interim, FDA has issued guidelines that allows industry to refer to peanuts as healthy,…
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The Global Forum for Agricultural Research’s Gender in Agriculture Partnership (GAP) has organized a webinar for 4 October on three on-going initiatives to mainstream sex-disaggregated data and gender indicators in national agricultural censuses and surveys, and in agricultural development projects. As the first of a series developed by the GAP group this webinar will discuss…
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Agribusiness investor AgDevCo will put $1.5 million into a Malawian peanut processor that aims to make the country an exporter again. The company, Afri-Oils Limited, is building a new processing facility to handle locally grown peanuts, and estimates that the company will provide higher incomes for 18,000 Malawian smallholder farmers by marketing nuts in regional…
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The fifth Plant Genomics and Gene Editing Congress is coming up in March and two grants are available to help offset expenses for early career researchers to present their work. The presentations will be given as part of the main program, providing a 15-minute platform to share research with a diverse and engaged audience. Selected…
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Delta Airlines is testing out other snacks and might replace the iconic bag of peanuts with cashews. Delta is based in Atlanta, the capital of the biggest peanut-growing state in the U.S. and has been serving peanuts to passengers since the 1940s. The Georgia Peanut Commission has argued that Delta should continue to serve peanuts…
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The African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development has put out 12-peer reviewed scientific articles in a special issue about aflatoxin. The main corresponding author for the issue, which is sponsored by the International Livestock Research Institute, is Dr. Johanna Lindahl (J.Lindahl@cgiar.org). The editor of AJFAND recently sent out a notice about the special…
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Partisan politics can make it tough to get legislation passed in a Presidential election year, but lawmakers from both parties came together to support the Global Food Security Act, which passed last month and made Feed the Future federal law. In the past, the effort was a presidential initiative, so President Obama was clearly happy…
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