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  • Agricultural Fellowship Opportunity with MFK: Sorghum Value Chain

    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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  • Growing Indiana: UGA Lab Helps Farmers Around the Globe Fight Mycotoxin

    Jamie Rhoads, assistant director of the USAID-funded PMIL, which is housed in UGA’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, was featured in Growing Indiana, an Agriculture Business publication on 24 October, 2014. The article focuses on how he helped to create a poster, brochure and guidebook that will help smallholder farmers worldwide decrease aflatoxin contamination…

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  • II International Symposium on Mycotoxins in Nuts and Dried Fruits

    Call for Abstracts: II International Symposium on Mycotoxins in Nuts and Dried Fruits hosted by the International Society for Horticulture Science. 19 March 2015 – Submissions Due 8-12 September 2015 – Abuja, Nigeria  

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  • Call For Abstracts: Global Food Security Conference October 2015

    The 2nd International Conference on Global Food Security aims to deliver state-of-the-art analysis, inspiring visions and innovative research methods arising from research in any of a wide range of disciplines. Join us in this exciting opportunity to ensure that the best science is garnered to support the emergence of the Sustainable Development Goals. 8 May…

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  • PMIL Assistant Director helps develop international extension materials on aflatoxin control in smallholder peanut production

    Jamie Rhoads, Assistant Director of the USAID funded Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab (PMIL) housed at the University of Georgia’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, is participating in a writing workshop at the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation’s (CTA) International Forum, October 13th through 17th 2014, in Arnhem, Netherlands. He is helping…

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  • Muniappan receives 2014 BIFAD Award for Scientific Excellence

    Dr. Rangaswamy (Muni) Muniappan, Director of the Integrated Pest Management Lab and a Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab Collaborator, has been awarded the 2014 BIFAD Award for Scientific Excellence in the Researcher Category. Muniappan received the BIFAD Award for Scientific Excellence today in Des Moines, Iowa. It is presented each year by the presidentially appointed…

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  • Higher Education Solutions Network TechCon 2014

    HESN’s TechCon 2014 will be a unique convening of entrepreneurs, academics, students, development experts, field practitioners and the private sector focused on innovative approaches to solution creation, testing, and scaling and international development. TechCon 2014 will showcase the innovations and innovators coming out of HESN’s Development Labs and the broader social innovation community. The Higher Education Solutions…

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