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AMITSA, a regional agricultural input market information system in Africa, has merged with AfricaFertilizer.org (AFO) which launched a new monthly fertilizer information bulletin (Fertinews East and Southern Africa) in collaboration with the East and Southern Africa Trade Platform. The merger will allow AMITSA readers to get the best of information in the fertilizer industry, the…
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The Partnership for Aflatoxin Control in Africa (PACA) has documented the proceedings from a two-day workshop in Senegal held to review the progress of aflatoxin-control programs and to continue to work toward aflatoxin control across the continent. “Revamping the Groundnut Value Chain of West Africa through Aflatoxin Mitigation” was held September 1-2, 2015, in Dakar,…
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The Biosciences eastern and central Africa – International Livestock Research Institute (BecA-ILRI) Hub, located in Nairobi, Kenya, is soliciting fellowship applications from scientists affiliated (through employment) with an African National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) or university, and conducting research in the areas of food and nutritional security or food safety in Africa. BecA-ILRI Hub’s mission is…
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The International Fertilizer Development Center is holding a week-long training on DSSAT (the Decision Support System for Agro-technology Transfer, a software application program made up of crop simulation models for over 42 crops) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from March 2-9, 2016. The training is held in partnership with the DSSAT Foundation and Washington State University.…
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The proceedings from the American Peanut Research and Education Society’s 2015 annual meeting in Charleston, S.C. are now available online. The document is searchable, bookmarked by section, and the author index, which starts on page 256, makes it easy to locate the pages of the abstracts for which you are listed as an author. Check…
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This month’s Research Spotlight within the Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab is Dr. Boris Bravo-Ureta, a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Connecticut and a Visiting Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Talca in Chile. He is currently leading a project with the Peanut & Mycotoxin…
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The scientists in East and Southern Africa involved in breeding groundnut in the PMIL met Thursday and Friday, Oct. 29 and 30, at the Ufulu Gardens Hotel in Lilongwe, Malawi. The participants included Amade Muitia (IIAM, Nampula, Mozambique); Justus Chintu (DARS, Chitedze, Malawi); Patrick Okori, Anitha Seetha and Harvey Charlie (ICRISAT, Lilongwe, Malawi); Lutangu Makweti…
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