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  • Gifted high-schoolers visit PMIL to learn about food security

    A group of academically gifted high school students visited the Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab offices this week to learn about peanut research. The students, part of the Duke University Talent Identification Program (TIP), are nearing the end of a course focused on developing new varieties of crops via marker-assisted selection, transgenic and gene-editing approaches,…

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  • MasterCard commits $27.1 million to ag education in Africa

    The MasterCard Foundation and the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) have announced a collaboration that will make $27.1 million available for agricultural education in Africa. The eight-year commitment from MasterCard will focus on smallholder farmers, connecting university education to the needs of rural communities, and support the training of 220 economically disadvantaged…

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  • U of Mauritius to host conference on ag development in Africa

    The faculty of Agriculture at the University of Mauritius will host an International Conference on Agribusiness in collaboration with the AFMA (Africa Farm Management Association) from 20-24 November 2016 under the main theme “Sustainable Agricultural Development: Innovation Systems Approach for Agricultural Transformation in Africa.” The conference will cover:

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  • President Obama signs Feed the Future bill into law

    President Obama received a standing ovation when he announced on Wednesday that he had signed the Global Food Security Act, a bill that codifies Feed the Future into federal law. “You’re not surprised I signed it, right?” the president joked with a crowd gathered for a White House Summit for Global Development, a day of…

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  • Groundnut research highlighted on Ugandan TV

    NBS Television, a national network in Uganda, recently highlighted the groundnut breeding work of the National Semi-Arid Resources Research Institute (NaSARRI) and PMIL collaborator Kalule David Okello, who is working to create drought- and disease-resistant varieties for the region. Ugandan scientists have developed a new variety of groundnuts that is resistant to drought and the deadly…

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  • Global Development Summit will be shown online

    Leaders of government and non-profit international development agencies will spend the day Wednesday celebrating programs like Feed the Future in a daylong event that will conclude with remarks from President Obama. The Summit on Global Development will run from 9 to 4:30 and will be streamed live online here. In addition to the president, two…

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  • White House recognizes work of innovation labs

    National leaders will celebrate the accomplishments of international development programs including the Feed the Future innovation labs this week at the White House Summit on Global Development. President Obama and other government officials will welcome representatives of Feed the Future, Power Africa, Global Health, the Open Government Partnership, PEPFAR 2.0 and 3.0, the Young African…

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