Congratulations to the 2020 winners of awards from the American Peanut Research and Education Society. APRES held its 52nd annual meeting online earlier this month. Tim Grey, University of Georgia, was named a Fellow of the Society. Kelly Chamberlin, USDA-ARS, won the Coyt T. Wilson Distinguished Service Award. Ye Chu, University of Georgia, took the Corteva™Agriscience…

Researchers in Uganda recently met to tour peanut research plots after a months-long lockdown to control the spread of Covid-19. A team working on a project to document young people’s experiences, challenges and views on the peanut value chain – the Photovoice team – recently visited the director of research at NaSARRI in Serere on…

USAID Advancing Nutrition is holding a webinar to discuss the different strategies experts have to address gaps in nutrition services. Packages to address the gaps — planning and implementation guidance, training materials, and job aids – exist, but often are fragmented. USAID Advancing Nutrition conducted a review of the most-used packages, to help governments and…

Feed the Future is holding a discussion among stakeholders on July 30to explore how we can mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 on global food, nutrition and water security, including through improved coordination between humanitarian and development actors and actions.   Country-specific data and examples from implementing partners, ACDI/VOCA, DAI, CORUS International, Helen Keller International, as well…

The Feed the Future Advancing Local Leadership, Innovation and Networks (ALL-IN) program, a collaborative research grant program between the Markets, Risk and Resilience Innovation Lab and the International Center for Evaluation and Development (ICED) is seeking research proposals from African institutions to advance host-country leadership in defining and implementing research projects. ALL-IN calls for researchers…

Organizers have cancelled this year’s Georgia Peanut Tour in response to coronavirus concerns. The annual tour draws around 200 people from around the world to spend three days visiting sites along the peanut value chain in Georgia. The Peanut Innovation Lab regularly hosts visitors from partner countries to attend the tour and see first-hand the…

Peanut Innovation Lab Director Dave Hoisington and North Carolina State University Professor David Jordan are editing a special issue of “Agronomy” (ISSN 2073-4395) entitled “Peanut : A promising star to feed the future.” This special issue belongs to the section “Crop Breeding and Genetics“. “Peanut (groundnut) is an important legume grown widely around the world,” the…