• Kansas State University and K-State Research and Extension are seeking a tenure-track assistant professor to conduct, collect, analyze, and synthesize research relating to global food systems, nutrition, and health. The position is housed in the USAID Feed the Future Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab (SIIL) hosted at K-State and will have a tenure home in either…

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  • The Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellows Program is a unique two-year international fellowship administered by the Congressional Hunger Center (CHC). Its mission is to develop leaders committed to finding lasting solutions to hunger and poverty worldwide through both direct programming and good policies. Leland Fellows are given the opportunity to develop new skills while actively…

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  • The Chicago Council on Global Affairs is now accepting applications from students to participate in the Global Food Security Symposium 2015 Next Generation Delegation. 15 January 2015 – Submissions Due 15-15 April 2015 – Washington, D.C. USA  

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  • Legume Scholars Program Launched Submissions Due By December 19, 2014 By 2050 the world will need to feed two billion additional people. A challenge this serious requires the best and brightest ideas in agricultural science. Want to help feed the future? Consider applying for a Graduate Fellowship from the Legume Scholars Program. Announcing a new…

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  • Over 100 international scientists and stakeholders attended the 7th International Conference on Advances in Arachis though Genomics and Biotechnology (AAGB) last week, November 11-14, in Savannah, Georgia USA—including a large contingent of collaborators from the Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab. The AAGB conference, first held in Guangzhou, China in 2006, brings together a diverse group…

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  • Abdi Mohammad Hassen

    Abdi Mohammed Hassen is a short-term Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab (PMIL) trainee working with PMIL Lead Scientist Renee Arias at the United States Department of Agriculture National Peanut Research Laboratory (USDA NPL) in Dawson, Georgia. Abdi worked with Arias from August 5th until October 27th of 2014. He has returned home to complete his PhD…

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  • Fellowship Opportunity: Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab’s in-coutnry partners, Meds and Food for Kids, has created a new fellowship position which will ideally be filled by someone with knowledge  and experience in international agricultural development and the agricultural value chain. This person will be working specifically on sorghum production and the development of new sorghum…

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