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  • PMIL collaborator Agnes Mwangwela publishes article evaluating the quality of oil from groundnuts

    PMIL collaborator, Agnes Mwangwela, co-authored a paper, “Quality evaluation of sunflower and groundnut oil produced by two cooperatives under the one village one product programme in central Malawi,” published in the March 2015 issue of the African Journal of Agricultural Research. The article about local cooperatives producing quality oil from groundnuts (peanuts) provides evidence that…

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  • PMIL participates in Innovation Labs partners meeting in Malawi

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    PMIL scientists, Dave Hoisington, Jamie Rhoads, Rick Brandenburg and Patrick Okori participated in the Feed the Future Innovation Labs Partners Meetings recently held in Lilongwe, Malawi. Fifteen of the twenty-four Innovation Labs were represented, along with several staff from USAID (Washington and regional missions) and many regional partners. The four-day event discussed current research progress…

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  • Feed the Future Innovation Labs Partners Meeting

    Feed the Future Innovation Labs Partners Meeting to discuss current research and progress. 20-23 April 2015 – Lilongwe, Malawi

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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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  • Interview with Mark Manary: Malnutrition Interventions

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    An interview with Lead Scientist Mark Manary about how his current research with PMIL impacts the world.

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  • PMIL director attends project meetings in Malawi, Ghana, Kenya

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    Photo of the participants of the Ghana planning meeting held at the Engineering Guest House at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)

    Dave Hoisington, Director of Feed the Future's Peanut and Mycotoxin Innovation Lab (PMIL), recently returned from a 3-country tour of Malawi, Ghana and Kenya where he attended PMIL Value Chain Project planning meetings in both, Kumasi, Ghana and Lilongwe, Malawi.

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  • Malawi/Zambia/Mozambique Value Chain Planning Meeting

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    To discuss with partners and stakeholders the proposed value chain research targeting Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia, finalizing the work plans for 2014. 23-24 January 2014 – Lilongwe, Malawi

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