Africa
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Join in the discussion beginning Wednesday, July 12 about youth engagement in agriculture in Africa. The forum, which will last a month, is sponsored by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), CGIAR Research Program on Livestock, the Climate Smart Agriculture Youth Network (CSAYN), AgriProFocus, and ICCO Cooperation. Discussion will…
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A video of a recent round-table discussion titled “Building a multi-stakeholder approach to mitigate aflatoxin contamination of food and feed” held in Brussels on 25 January is now online. Dozens of experts from Europe, Africa and the U.S., representing the public agencies, the private sector and NGOs attended the one-day session Go to the Management…
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SEED (Sow and Encourage Economic Development) Foundation is taking 2016 grant proposals for pilot projects that are based on an innovative agricultural development in one of the program’s target countries in Africa. The call for proposal aims at financing the pilot phase of an innovative project. Therefore, SEED Foundation takes the role of an incubator…
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The International Fertilizer Development Center has set its training schedule for 2016, beginning with Advanced Application of DSSAT in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from March 2-9. Other dates for 2016 include:
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On Dec. 10 at noon GMT (7 a.m. EST), the Africa South of the Sahara Food Security Portal (https://ssa.foodsecurityportal.org/regional-sub-portal/sub-saharan-africa) will host a virtual dialogue on fertilizer use in Africa. This event will bring together regional experts to engage with online participants in order to share information, discuss progress and constraints, and brainstorm new ideas to…
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This month’s Research Spotlight within the Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab is Dr. Boris Bravo-Ureta, a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Connecticut and a Visiting Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Talca in Chile. He is currently leading a project with the Peanut & Mycotoxin…
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The scientists in East and Southern Africa involved in breeding groundnut in the PMIL met Thursday and Friday, Oct. 29 and 30, at the Ufulu Gardens Hotel in Lilongwe, Malawi. The participants included Amade Muitia (IIAM, Nampula, Mozambique); Justus Chintu (DARS, Chitedze, Malawi); Patrick Okori, Anitha Seetha and Harvey Charlie (ICRISAT, Lilongwe, Malawi); Lutangu Makweti…
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