Grain elevators in the central United States are experiencing shortages after this year’s unusual weather patterns. Early harvests are causing demand for storage to occur in ways elevator managers do not normally plan for. Temporary storage capacities are being utilized but numbers of grain piles on the ground continue to increase. Each pile loses an […]
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Wasted: How America Is Losing Up to 40 Percent of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill
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Wasted: How America Is Losing Up to 40 Percent of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill (PDF) was recently issued by the NRDC. http://www.nrdc.org/food/files/wasted-food-IP.pdf
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CEE Team Works to Minimize Postharvest Food Loss
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University of Illinois Civil and Environmental Engineering researchers work across departments and share expertise to tackle PHL in grains, as part of their work with the ADM Institute for the Prevention of Postharvest Loss. http://cee.illinois.edu/postharvest_food_loss
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Powering Energy to Face the Challenges of World Hunger
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USAID is partnered with the Swedish government, Duke Energy, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the African Development Bank, and the U.S. Department of Agriculuture in the creation of a program called Powering Agriculture: An Energy Grand Challenge for Development, which addresses the barriers in development, particularly at the intersection of agriculture and energy. The program will […]
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Internships to Improveoperational Efficiency in Development Organizationsare
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Internships to improveoperational efficiency in development organizationsare available through the ILC Africa Internship Program on behalf of USAID and Africa Lead. Applications are due by June 21st.
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Rwanda: G8 to Help 50 Million Africans Out of Poverty
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The recent G8 meeting resulted in pledges of promotions for investments in Food Security and Nutrition as a means to lift millions of Africans out of poverty. “The Rome Principle highlighted the need to invest in comprehensive country-led food security and agriculture development plans, also known as Country Investment Plans (CIPs).” The USA has been […]
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Tennessee Agricultural Enhancement Program
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The Tennessee Agricultural Enhancement Program is awarding financial assistance to state producers conducting qualifying projects in genetics, hay storage, feed storage, grain storage, and producer diversification opportunities. Proposals for funding should be turned in between June 1-7. http://www.tn.gov/agriculture/enhancement/
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UC Riverside Receives Grant for Global Health and Development Research
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A UC Riverside professor was awarded $100,000 in Grand Challenges Explorations grant money from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to research methods of identifying diseased corn in Third World countries. The professor plans to create a “biotic stress sensor printed on maize leaves.” The research team will be looking at low-cost methods of placing […]
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Doing Business Differently: Fighting Global Hunger Through a Whole-of-Government Approach
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Feed the Future, the U.S. government’s food security initiative, has helped to improve market access for smallholder women farmers in Guatemala, taught agricultural techniques to Senegalese farmers, improved grain storage practices and lowered PHL for Ghanaian farmers, and aided Bangladeshi agriculture workers to have access to research about plant pests and diseases of their crops, […]
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The Importance of Cooperatives by Jack Wilkinson
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Former President of the International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP) Jack Wilkinson, a farmer from Canada, outlines the importance of cooperatives in both developed and developing countries. He highlighted the potential for community cooperatives to aid in grain-producing areas of Africa where individual farmers do not have the resources to purchase adequate cleaning and storage […]
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