• The Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab has a new website at https://pmil.caes.uga.edu. The new site actually went live late last year, as the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, which hosts the PMIL’s management offices, launched a revamped version of its website. It had been more than a decade since CAES had…

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  • The 2017 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Mycotoxins and Phycotoxins, will be held June 18-23 at Stonehill College in Easton, Mass. The conference will bring together senior and early-career scientists, as well as students, to address the very practical task of ensuring the safety of food and water supplies. Podium presentations will include a mixture…

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  • SPRING (Strengthening Partnerships, Results and Innovation in Nutrition Globally) will hold a webinar on April 5 on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), a tool designed and tested by IFPRI, that is used to measure women’s empowerment SPRING used the tool in projects in Bangladesh, where women are relatively less empowered in comparison to…

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  • The International Fertilizer Development Center will hold its seventh Linking Farmers to Markets workshop in Accra from 15-19 May. The cost of the program is $1,650 until 17 April and $1,800 afterward.  The successful training program has been conducted in both English and French in the past. Who should attend?

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  • Auburn University has released a new high-oleic variety of peanuts, a runner-type that is drawing attention to the university’s young peanut breeding program. It’s the first new variety for the new program, but won’t be the last, according to John Beasley, the head of Auburn’s Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, who was a…

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  • The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) will release “2017 Global Food Policy Report” on March 23 in a Washington, D.C. event streamed on the internet. The report  takes an in-depth look at the challenges and opportunities of urbanization for food security and nutrition. At the event, a panel will discuss: What we know about…

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  • Today is the last day to apply for the 2017 AWARD AgTech Innovation Challenge for West and North Africa. Institutions or enterprises interested in applying may do so by submitting the online application form. Gender Agribusiness Investments for Africa (GAIA), a program launched by African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD), is accepting applications…

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