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In its third year, PMIL scientists in the U.S. and partner countries made significant progress in their work to boost peanut productivity, fight mycotoxin and make farming both profitable and sustainable peanut growers. But, perhaps the most rewarding part of the past year’s work was seeing the next generation of innovators – graduate students doing…
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The Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance (VEGA) has announced a Request for Applications (RFA) for Farmer-to-Farmer Special Program Support Project Small Grants. The full RFA is available at the Farmer-toFarmer website. The F2F Small Grant projects are meant to test innovative approaches to use U.S. based volunteers overseas in the food and agriculture sector, to…
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USAID’s American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA) Program Agency for International Development is accepting grant applications for schools, libraries, and hospitals founded or sponsored by U.S. agencies or organizations, but located outside the country.
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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 AflaSTOP: Storage and Drying for Aflatoxin Prevention project has a new monthly newsletter to keep everyone up to date on the progress of the month. AflaSTOP is a ACDI/VOCA project in Kenya, working to find storage options that impede the growth of aflatoxin and give smallholder farmers a way to dry their grain and…
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The Supervisory Agricultural Research Specialist: Serves as the agency expert and coordinator in agricultural research for development activities, providing intellectual leadership; generating policy recommendations, interventions, and agency mechanisms; and initiating new research partnerships within the international agricultural and food security development area, to include research on crop and animal improvement, agronomy, farming systems, sustainable intensification,…
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USAID’s online training course on nutrition-sensitive agricultural programming, designed for USAID staff and external partners. It introduces the principles of nutrition-sensitive agriculture and how those principles can be applied to existing and future agriculture and food security programs. The course is intended for individuals that do not have a nutrition or health background who are…
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