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One of the emerging lessons from COVID-19 is that we may not always be able to relay information through in-person meetings and trainings. That is one of the reasons the Peanut Innovation Lab is working to create animations to relay important production information, the type of information smallholder farmers might receive through in-person training with…
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The World Food Prize Foundation is hosting a Digital Dialogue on how the coronavirus pandemic has affected the global food system. Moderator Barbara Stinson, the president of the foundation, will lead a panel including former food prize laureates Catherine Bertini and David Nabarro, as well as Shenggen Fan, who is a member of the World…
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The Peanut Innovation Lab’s gender specialist, Jessica Marter-Kenyon, presented lab-funded research from Malawi this week at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) annual meeting, which was held online due the Covid-19 travel and gathering restrictions. Marter-Kenyon’s paper, “Gender and the Transition from Tobacco to Groundnut in Malawi,” reviewed the results of qualitative fieldwork she conducted…
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The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety (FSIL) is taking applications for research subawards. The FSIL is a five-year collaborative research program led by Purdue University and Cornell University and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Each 3.5-year project must be led by a U.S. academic institution and include at least one host-country partner (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Senegal or Kenya). Proposals…
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Peanut buyers and researchers in southern Africa have welcomed a small-scale, mechanized peanut shelling system produced by the Peanut Innovation Lab that allows them to shell and sort nuts in a fraction of the time it takes to do the tasks by hand. The system includes several prototype models of precise, but small-scale shellers, aspirators…
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The Ghana Groundnut Working Group, a gathering of scientists, aggregators, farmers and others involved in the peanut value chain across Ghana met this month for the second annual conference. The two-day meeting convened in Tamale, Ghana, 11-12 March at the Modern City Hotel. The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut and David Jordan of…
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Mark Green, who directed USAID for two and a half years, is resigning and returning to private- sector work. Green, a former Republican congressman, drew bipartisan support in the Senate when he was confirmed USAID administrator in 2017. He led USAID with a philosophy that foreign aid programs should create independent systems so that aid…
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