News

• PMIL’s Haiti Research Trips featured in Georgia FACES

  June 26, 2015

  College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences administrators visit peanut production facilities in Haiti with Feed the Future PMIL Published June 24, 2015, Georgia FACES By Christy Fricks & Merritt Melancon, University of Georgia While the University of Georgia is known as a hub for peanut research, sometimes the most impactful research is conducted on the…

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• USAID announces the appointment of Chapotin as the Bureau for Food Security’s third Deputy Assistant Administrator

  June 2, 2015

  USAID announces the appointment of Saharah Moon Chapotin as the Bureau for Food Security's third Deputy Assistant Administrator.

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• Q&A with Rick Brandenburg: Southern Africa Value Chain Interventions

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  May 30, 2015

  Rick Brandenburg is Lead Scientist on PMIL’s Southern Africa Value Chain Interventions project and a collaborator on both the Ghana and Haiti Value Chain projects. In addition to his work with PMIL, he is a Wm. Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Turfgrass Environmental Research and Education at North Carolina State University.

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• PMIL to conduct peanut and mycotoxin meetings in Haiti June 11-19

  May 29, 2015

  The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Peanut Productivity and Mycotoxin Control (Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab, PMIL) will be conducting several events in Haiti this summer.

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• Feed the Future’s Soybean Innovation Lab announces Tropical Soybean Information Portal (TSIP)

  May 28, 2015

  Feed the Future’s Soybean Innovation Lab announces the availability of a new Tropical Soybean Information Portal (TSIP).  The new website is a one-stop data and information shop for the global community of researchers, extentionists, and private sector managers working in the soybean value chain.  The site is highly interactive and all materials are downloadable.  Contributions are…

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• PMIL collaborator Agnes Mwangwela publishes article evaluating the quality of oil from groundnuts

  May 28, 2015

  PMIL collaborator, Agnes Mwangwela, co-authored a paper, “Quality evaluation of sunflower and groundnut oil produced by two cooperatives under the one village one product programme in central Malawi,” published in the March 2015 issue of the African Journal of Agricultural Research. The article about local cooperatives producing quality oil from groundnuts (peanuts) provides evidence that…

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• PMIL participates in Innovation Labs partners meeting in Malawi

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  April 30, 2015

  PMIL scientists, Dave Hoisington, Jamie Rhoads, Rick Brandenburg and Patrick Okori participated in the Feed the Future Innovation Labs Partners Meetings recently held in Lilongwe, Malawi. Fifteen of the twenty-four Innovation Labs were represented, along with several staff from USAID (Washington and regional missions) and many regional partners. The four-day event discussed current research progress…

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