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A U.S. Agency for International Development-funded project is seeking a chief of party to work with the West Africa Trade and Investment Hub, which is run by Abt Associates. The job is based in Accra, requires frequent travel in West Africa and starts July 1 or sooner. The project is in the second year and…
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The Partnership for Aflatoxin Control in Africa will hold its second biennial partnership platform meeting on 11-13 October in Kampala, Uganda. The meeting will provide an opportunity for stakeholders to share lessons and information, engage and deepen partnerships to create synergies, and alignment around current and future aflatoxin-control efforts on the continent. Under the auspices…
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The University of Johannesburg (UJ) in collaboration with the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST) South Africa will hold the 2016 Autumn International Scientific Conference on Food Security and Safety 16 to 18 May. Food security revolves around four major aspects: Availability, access, stability and utilization. In the…
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Feed the Future will host a webinar Thursday recapping the Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) project, an effort to promote smart regulations and efficient regulatory processes to support agribusiness. In a recently released report, EBA compared policies in 40 countries in six regions on the topics of seed, fertilizer, machinery, finance, transport, and markets.…
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MIT’s Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation (CITE), is taking proposals for technical projects that could use a comprehensive evaluation. In the upcoming fiscal year, CITE will be conducting several evaluations, but since this is the final year of the current round of funding from USAID, CITE will place particular emphasis on projects that can be completed…
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Rick Brandenburg, who leads the Southern Africa Value Chain project for PMIL, recently was recognized by North Carolina State University International Affairs at the Global Engagement Exposition. The event recognizes individuals across the university in four categories and includes presentations focused on global research and scholarly programs. Congratulations to Dr. Brandenburg, seen here with Provost…
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USAID’s East Africa Resilience Learning Project (RLP) is looking for a senior manager to work out of its headquarters at Tufts University. The center’s goal is to develop and promote operational and policy responses to protect and strengthen the livelihoods of people living in marginalized communities or who are impacted by crisis and violence, malnutrition…
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