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  • Call for Applications: U.S. Borlaug Fellows in Global Food Security Program

      The U.S. Borlaug Fellows in Global Food Security graduate research grant supports exceptional graduate students who are interested in developing a component of their graduate research in a developing country setting and in collaboration with a mentor from an International Agricultural Research Center (IARC) or a qualifying National Agricultural Research System (NARS) unit. U.S.…

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  • Agrilinks: Exploring storage and drying solutions for aflatoxin prevention

    We sat down with Sophie Walker, Chief of Party of the AflaSTOP project. Based in Kenya, AflaSTOP is investigating storage devices that will prevent the growth of aflatoxin-producing mold during storage and exploring drying technologies that will help farmers reduce grain moisture from current levels at 15-18 percent to a safer 13.5 percent. AflaSTOP intends to commercialize…

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  • Call for Articles: Women and Agroecology

    Women are strong drivers of agroecological change in farming and consumer communities. One example is the women’s movement for agrobiodiverse, pesticide-free crop production in India. In other places, women experiment with intercropping, vegetable box schemes and seed exchanges. What motivates them? And what role does agroecology play in improving the lives of women?

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  • 2015 APRES meeting materials released to public

    APRES announces that the 2015 APRES Annual Meeting was one of the most well attended meetings in recent memory. Highlights of the meeting can be found on the APRES website home page.  Presentations are available from the General Session and Peanut Post Harvest Quality Symposium.    

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  • Call for Concept Notes: Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project

    The International Food Policy Research Institute has received a second round of support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to adapt and validate a measure of women’s empowerment that agricultural development projects can use to diagnose key areas of women’s (and men’s) disempowerment, design appropriate strategies to address deficiencies, and monitor project outcomes related…

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  • APLU Webinar: Exploring USAID’s Local Solutions and the Local Systems Framework

    Join the APLU Knowledge Center for Advancing Development through Higher Education for a webinar on USAID’s Local Solutions (part of USAID Forward), which encourages sustainability through country ownership of the development agenda. During this webinar, we’ll explore the Local Systems Framework, which provides a foundation for engaging local systems in ways that support local ownership,…

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  • Q&A with Kumar Mallikarjunan: Mycotoxin Detection Options

    Kumar Mallikarjunan is a Professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA. Kumar has been involved with the USAID funded peanut projects for almost 20 years – formerly with the Peanut CRSP and now with the Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab. He is currently the Lead Scientist on the Mycotoxin Detection Options…

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