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  • Q & A with Sylvia Baah-Tuahene: Assessment & Safety of Peanut Based By-Products from Peanut Oil Processing

    Sylvia Baah-Tuahene is a PMIL supported student at the University of Ghana as part of a capacity building effort through the Ghana Peanut Value Chain Interventions project. She recently completed her MSc research on surveying peanut and peanut based products that are produced by women processors in three different regions in Ghana. Her research thesis,…

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  • Q&A with Nick Magnan: Interventions to Decrease Mycotoxin Risks in Ghana

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    Dr. Nick Magnan is the Lead Scientist on PMIL’s, “Producer and Consumer Interventions to Decrease Peanut Mycotoxin Risks” in Ghana project. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in international development. Nick’s…

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  • Dr. Rick Brandenburg to Host Southern Africa Peanut Value Chain Meeting in Malawi

    Dr. Rick Brandenburg from North Carolina State University, PMIL Lead Scientist for the Southern Africa Peanut Value Chain Intervention, is hosting a project meeting on the 28-29th of September in Lilongwe, Malawi. Over 50 project partners including researchers, students, and private sector actors from the target countries, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, plus collaborators from the…

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  • Agrilinks: Exploring storage and drying solutions for aflatoxin prevention

    We sat down with Sophie Walker, Chief of Party of the AflaSTOP project. Based in Kenya, AflaSTOP is investigating storage devices that will prevent the growth of aflatoxin-producing mold during storage and exploring drying technologies that will help farmers reduce grain moisture from current levels at 15-18 percent to a safer 13.5 percent. AflaSTOP intends to commercialize…

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  • 2015 APRES meeting materials released to public

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    APRES announces that the 2015 APRES Annual Meeting was one of the most well attended meetings in recent memory. Highlights of the meeting can be found on the APRES website home page.  Presentations are available from the General Session and Peanut Post Harvest Quality Symposium.    

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  • Q&A with Kumar Mallikarjunan: Mycotoxin Detection Options

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    Kumar Mallikarjunan is a Professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA. Kumar has been involved with the USAID funded peanut projects for almost 20 years – formerly with the Peanut CRSP and now with the Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab. He is currently the Lead Scientist on the Mycotoxin Detection Options…

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  • Q&A with PMIL Student Maxwell Lamptey: Solar Drying to Control Aflatoxin Contamination in Peanut

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    Maxwell Lamptey is participating in a short-term training program supported by the Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab from March to September 2015. As a Senior Technical Officer working on legumes at the Crops Research Institute (CRI) in Kumasi, Ghana, Maxwell was nominated for the program by CRI Deputy Director Emmanuel Otoo. During his time in…

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