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Legume Scholars Program Launched Submissions Due By December 19, 2014 By 2050 the world will need to feed two billion additional people. A challenge this serious requires the best and brightest ideas in agricultural science. Want to help feed the future? Consider applying for a Graduate Fellowship from the Legume Scholars Program. Announcing a new…
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Dr. Rangaswamy (Muni) Muniappan, Director of the Integrated Pest Management Lab and a Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab Collaborator, has been awarded the 2014 BIFAD Award for Scientific Excellence in the Researcher Category. Muniappan received the BIFAD Award for Scientific Excellence today in Des Moines, Iowa. It is presented each year by the presidentially appointed…
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Feeding the World in 2050: How Human and Institutional Capacity Development Can Support Agricultural Innovation Systems The Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD) and USAID with support from the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) will host an online discussion on how human and institutional capacity development can support agricultural innovation systems. 18-20…
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Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance (VEGA) announces a Request for Applications, for the Farmer-to-Farmer Special Program Support Project Small Grants Program. 27 October 2014 – Concept Papers Due
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The Peanut and Mycotoxin Innovation Lab (PMIL) participated in a meeting with some of the key staffers of the United States Senate Agriculture Committee, followed by a reception, in Washington D.C. on Wednesday September 17th, 2014. The importance of the Innovation Labs and the Feed the Future Initiative was the main topic of the presentation and…
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USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah acknowledged the accomplishments of the Feed the Future Innovation labs, during the keynote address of the two–day USAID Frontiers in Development Forum. The keynote address also featured speakers Imam Mohamed Magid, President of the Islamic Society of North America and Khalifa Ababacar Sall, Mayor of Dakar, Senegal. Members of several Innovation…
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Dave Hoisington, Director of the Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab, was elected the next President of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab Council on Thursday, September 18th. The Innovation Lab Council is a consortium of Directors and Assistant Directors of the 24 USAID Feed the Future Innovation Labs.
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