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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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The Trellis Fund will offer 15 grants, up to $2,000 each, to local organizations for six-month projects that address horticultural challenges in the region. Organizations in Feed the Future countries — including Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Rwanda, Senegal, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia — are eligible…
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Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) requests Expressions of Interest (EOI) for consultancy services to develop the COMESA Aflatoxin Regional Action Plan. COMESA has received funding from the Partnership for Aflatoxin Control in Africa (PACA) towards the cost of Regional Workshop on the Aflatoxin Challenge in Eastern and Southern Africa (conducted in March…
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C. Michael (Mike) Deom, is a Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. He is Lead Scientist on PMIL’s Peanut Varietal Development: An Integrated Global Breeding and Genomics Approach to Intensifying Peanut Production and Quality project. Mike is also a collaborator on PMIL’s Southern…
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Intercropping two legumes with different growth habits is a relatively new practice in Malawi, but it could hold the key to sustainably intensifying smallholder agriculture in the country. Through research by Africa RISING on the doubled-up legume technology, farmers in the country are getting double benefits (increased land productivity and soil fertility) by adopting this…
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Dr. Rick Brandenburg from North Carolina State University, PMIL Lead Scientist for the Southern Africa Peanut Value Chain Intervention, is hosting a project meeting on the 28-29th of September in Lilongwe, Malawi. Over 50 project partners including researchers, students, and private sector actors from the target countries, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, plus collaborators from the…
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PMIL Researchers Kumar Mallikarjunan & Agnes Mwangwela were recently featured in Malawi Publication The Nation Online. Both Scientists are part of the Southern Africa Peanut Value Chain Interventions project. Read the full text of the publication online.
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