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  • USAID Online Training: Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Programming

    USAID’s online training course on nutrition-sensitive agricultural programming, designed for USAID staff and external partners. It introduces the principles of nutrition-sensitive agriculture and how those principles can be applied to existing and future agriculture and food security programs. The course is intended for individuals that do not have a nutrition or health background who are…

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  • Q&A with Nick Magnan: Interventions to Decrease Mycotoxin Risks in Ghana

    Dr. Nick Magnan is the Lead Scientist on PMIL’s, “Producer and Consumer Interventions to Decrease Peanut Mycotoxin Risks” in Ghana project. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in international development. Nick’s…

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  • 2016 Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM Travel Award

    The Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Education and Human Resources Programs (EHR) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Human Resource Development (HRD), within the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR). The conference is aimed…

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  • Dr. Rick Brandenburg to Host Southern Africa Peanut Value Chain Meeting in Malawi

    Dr. Rick Brandenburg from North Carolina State University, PMIL Lead Scientist for the Southern Africa Peanut Value Chain Intervention, is hosting a project meeting on the 28-29th of September in Lilongwe, Malawi. Over 50 project partners including researchers, students, and private sector actors from the target countries, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, plus collaborators from the…

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  • Visiting Scientist Conducts Research on Peanut Pathogen at UGA Griffin

    Visiting scientist conducts research on peanut pathogen at UGA Griffin Published August 26th, 2015 in Georgia FACES Writers Sharon Dowdy and Christy Fricks Photographer Christy Fricks A native of Ghana, Maxwell Lamptey is visiting the University of Georgia in the hopes of learning new methods of fighting aflatoxin—a carcinogen produced by soil fungus that can…

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  • Georgia Peanut Tour to be held September 15-17

    The 2015 Georgia Peanut Tour will be held September 15th through 17th in Thomasville, GA USA. The Peanut Tour includes on-farm demonstrations, peanut harvest clinics, production research, and tours of peanut handling facilities. Register online or download a registration form to mail in.

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  • UGA Cotton & Peanut Research Field Day Set for Sept. 9, 2015

    The Georgia Cotton Commission, Georgia Peanut Commission and the University of Georgia Extension Cotton and Peanut Teams, will co-sponsor a joint research field day on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, in Tifton, Georgia.

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