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  • World Food Prize picks ADB’s Adesina for 2017 honor

    The World Food Prize announced this week that African Development Bank president Akinwumi Adesina has won the prestigious World Food Prize for his work to boost yields and farm incomes. Recognizing how important, yet inaccessible, inputs are to African farmers, Adesina and the ADB launched a system of agro-dealerships that has spread across the continent.…

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  • Kemerait explains work in Haiti for Southeast Farm Press

    PMIL scientist Bob Kemerait, a plant pathologist at the University of Georgia, recently wrote a personal column for Southeast Farm Press, explaining why he does work in Haiti. Anyone who knows Bob knows how much he likes to share stories and photos. But, he does a particularly good job in this piece introducing two children…

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  • Feed the Future looking for data analysts

    USAID/BFS’s Division for Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) is looking for researchers interested in an opportunity to support research through analyses on Feed the Future (FTF) and other food security data sets that have been collected over the life of the initiative. The agency is looking for recent master’s or PhD graduates from a social…

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  • Share comments on food safety with USAID

    USAID is holding a two-day online discussion – an AgExchange – on food safety beginning June 20 at 10 a.m. Eastern time. The online exchange will provide a forum where the international research community, Title XII institutions and USAID Missions can discuss key constraints and research priorities in food safety and overarching food safety needs, concerns…

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  • North Carolina State hiring for Peanut Breeder position

    North Carolina State University has announced an opening in their Department of Crop and Soil Sciences for a peanut breeder.  The 12-month, tenure-track position is for an Assistant/Associate Professor of Plant Breeding and will be 75 percent research, 25 percent teaching. Salary is commensurate with training and experience. The position comes open as Dr. Tom…

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  • National Peanut Board, industry funding partners, NIFA accelerate peanut research

    The National Peanut Board has announced three opportunities totaling $1.3 million for production and peanut nutrition research that is funded jointly with USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). Collaborating with three peanut industry funding partners, Southeastern Peanut Research Initiative (SPRI), The Peanut Foundation and The Peanut Institute (TPI), the National Peanut Board is…

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  • Borlaug Award comes with cash prize for young scientist

    It’s time to nominate young scientists for the Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, a $10,000 prize that recognizes exceptional, science-based achievement in international agriculture and food production by an individual under 40. The award, endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation, goes to someone who “has clearly demonstrated intellectual courage, stamina, and determination in…

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