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The Partnership for Aflatoxin Control in Africa (PACA) will hold a workshop, Engaging the Health and Nutrition Sectors in Aflatoxin Control in Africa, in collaboration with the Amref Health Africa, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Health Organization (WHO) – International Agency for Research on Cancer…
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Feed the Future Innovation Lab on Sustainable Intensification is looking for an assistant or associate director for the management entity, which is within the College of Agriculture at Kansas State University.
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In its third year, PMIL scientists in the U.S. and partner countries made significant progress in their work to boost peanut productivity, fight mycotoxin and make farming both profitable and sustainable peanut growers. But, perhaps the most rewarding part of the past year’s work was seeing the next generation of innovators – graduate students doing…
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APRES (the American Peanut Research and Education Society) has put out a call for original papers or posters to be presented at the 2016 APRES Annual Meeting this July. Candidates should submit an abstract online at www.apresinc.com by March 31, 2016. Authors of both oral presentations and posters will be notified by May 1 if…
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A video of a recent round-table discussion titled “Building a multi-stakeholder approach to mitigate aflatoxin contamination of food and feed” held in Brussels on 25 January is now online. Dozens of experts from Europe, Africa and the U.S., representing the public agencies, the private sector and NGOs attended the one-day session Go to the Management…
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A regional partners meeting of Feed the Future Innovation Labs planned for early next month in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, has been postponed. Originally set for Feb. 1 and 2, the meeting was called by the Bureau for Food Security, Office of Agricultural Research and Policy, to bring together mission agriculture, food security and nutrition staff from…
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SEED (Sow and Encourage Economic Development) Foundation is taking 2016 grant proposals for pilot projects that are based on an innovative agricultural development in one of the program’s target countries in Africa. The call for proposal aims at financing the pilot phase of an innovative project. Therefore, SEED Foundation takes the role of an incubator…
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