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  • With private sector, USAID helping farmers weather shocks

    The U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Food Security (USAID’s BFS) is partnering with private sector businesses to empower smallholder farmers with tools and technologies they need to face the wide range of emerging threats and shocks. These shared-value partnerships through the Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation will leverage business growth for development…

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  • FAO asks for feedback from young people in agriculture in Africa

    The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Government of Rwanda and the African Union, are holding a regional conference, Youth Employment in Agriculture as a Solid Solution to ending Hunger and Poverty in Africa: Engaging through Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Entrepreneurship, on 20 and 21 August 2018. For more information…

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  • Peanut seed germination at 88% this year. It’s certified.

    Peanut seed tested for certification by the Georgia Crop Improvement Association showed an 88 percent germination rate this year. … Eighty-eight percent! Georgia Seed Development recently published an article explaining how the Georgia Department of Agriculture tests samples from Georgia and other states to ensure the seed will germinate and grow. It’s a big job,…

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  • Program matches young African nutrition businesses with investors

    The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) in partnership with Royal DSM and the SUN Business Network is organizing a Nutrition Dealroom for companies working in the agri-food value chain. The first-of-its-kind program will be part of the Nutrition Africa Investor Forum scheduled 16 and 17 October 2018 in Nairobi. The forum will give an…

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  • Leal-Bertioli wins grant to breed ancient traits into modern peanut

    Soraya Leal-Bertioli, a senior research scientist at the University of Georgia and part of the team that traced peanut back to its wild ancestors, has landed a $445,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study the resilience found in the genes of those ancient species. The National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant…

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  • Peanut Innovation Lab holds webinar on gender

    The Peanut Innovation Lab held a webinar on July 24 to discuss gender in peanut research. If you missed it, you can watch the webinar on YouTube. Check out background materials at the link in the description or through the comments.

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  • Leaders inducted into the Peanut Hall of Fame

    The American Peanut Council Hall of Fame recently inducted retired Birdsong Peanut executive Jeff Johnson into its ranks.  Johnson, who serves on the Peanut Innovation Lab’s External Advisory Panel, joined Birdsong Peanuts in 1974 and has been active in the American Peanut Council throughout his career, serving as chairman of the APC as well as…

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