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  • PMIL Director Hosington travels to Haiti June 27th-July 3rd

    PMIL Director Dave Hoisington and Communications Specialist Christy Fricks travel to Haiti Jun 27th-July 3rd to meet with members of the Clinton Foundation, USAID and Med & Food for Kids. For daily travelogue photos and news follow us on Twitter.

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  • Scott Jackson Listed as Top Medical Researcher

    PMIL Collaborator Scott Jackson is listed as one of Georgia’s top medical researchers in the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Jackson works with other PMIL scientists on a translational genomics project to reduce pre-harvest aflatoxin contamination of the peanut plant.  

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  • 40 Chances Fellows Program

    Opportunities: The 40 Chances Fellows program is a global fellowship in partnership with Tony Blair’s Africa Governance Initiative, the World Food Prize, and the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. The program will fund four 40 Chances Fellows with plans that seek to address issues of hunger, conflict, or poverty and may be established in any one…

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  • Partnership for Aflatoxin Control Biennial Platform Meeting

    The Partnership for Aflatoxin Control (PACA) invites all stakeholders involved in mitigating and managing the aflatoxin problem in Africa to join the first PACA Biennial Partnership Platform meeting. 7-9 October 2014 – Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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  • Interview with Yaa Klu: Probiotic Peanut Butter

    Yaa Asantewaa Kafui Klu, is a PhD candidate in Food Science at the University of Georgia (UGA). Born and raised in Cape Coast, Ghana, she began studying at UGA in 2009 and will graduate in August 2014. Yaa has already won awards for her graduate studies and presented papers across the U.S. on her research.…

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  • Open Forum in Grain and Legumes

    Science in Grain and Legumes Poster from 2014

    Attend an open forum on science in grain and legumes will be held at the Saskatoon's Arts and Convention Centre in Saskatoon Canada. 6 July 2014 – Saskatoon, Canada

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  • The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Agricultural Research Connections Workshop

    Opportunities: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announces the Agricultural Research Connections Workshops to encourage new research partnerships among scientists who could then compete for funding through calls for proposals; specifically the upcoming Program for Emerging Agricultural Research Leaders (PEARL). 22-28 June 2014 – Nairobi, Kenya 15-21 June 2014 – Nairobi, Kenya 18 April 2014…

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