Haiti Peanut Value Chain Interventions
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The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation has published a book of the most effective interventions impacting smallholder farmers across Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific, including the work of PMIL partner Meds and Food for Kids (MFK). “CTA Top 20 Innovations” is available online for free (click here) or in print form soon.…
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TOPIC: Mycotoxin Threats to the Food Chain and How to End Those Threats SPEAKER: Professor Dan Brown, Department of Animal Science. Cornell University Dan Brown is a nutritionist seeking to remove constraints to the sustainable delivery of high quality nutrients to vulnerable members of the world`s population through improvement of animal agricultural systems. Of particular…
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Researching 1,500 Peanuts, One Variety at a Time Published Tuesday, July 14th, 2015 – Growing Georgia By Allison Floyd In the late 1990s, tomato spotted wilt virus took a bite out of peanuts in the Southeast, claiming half of some farmers’ crop and about 10% of the overall yield in 1997. One of the most…
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July 9-10th, 2015 University of Florida Professor Greg MacDonald is hosting over 40 visitors from different countries including: Ghana, Israel, Malawi, Uganda, Zambia, Senegal, Mozambique, and Burkina Faso, as well as representatives from the U.S. peanut research and commercial sectors; for a field tour of peanut germplasm. MacDonald has approximately 1500 different cultivars from the…
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Contaminated peanut butter in the supermarket shelves Writer and Photographer Jeanty Gérard Junior Published June 12, 2015 Le Nouvelliste “There’s peanut butter (mamba) sold in supermarkets in Port-au-Prince that has a very high level of aflatoxin contamination” reveals a study by a Cell Research and reflection in the context of a research project funded by…
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PMIL’s Cap Haitien meetings began this morning with administrative updates and discussions.
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On June 12, PMIL hosted a successful workshop in Port au Prince, “Priorities for Addressing Mycotoxins in Haiti.” The workshop involved the PMIL team and a number of local stakeholders. There were several presentations on the health and economic development risks associated with mycotoxins, with an update on research findings in Haiti. Following these presentations,…
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