December
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Philip Pardey is appointed to the National Academy of Sciences Committee on a Review of the USDA Agricultural and Food Research Initiative. |
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Terry Hurley and Philip Pardey discuss potential research collaboration and data sharing options between Syngenta and HarvestChoice-UMN regarding global crop pest modeling with Ray Riley, Shefala Mehta, Daniel Dyer and Jon Blasing. |
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Darren Kriticos, Frikkie Liebenberg and Ross Darnell (CSIRO) travel to Kenya to work with Jagger Harvey (BecA) and other aflatoxin project collaborators to pilot the aflatoxin one-time survey instrument and plan survey logistics with Kenya and Tanzania collaborators. The CAAREA Pilot Afatoxin Farm Survey-Kenya meetings were held in the Maanzoni Resort, Kenya. |
November
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Jason Beddow meets with HarvestChoice collaborators and others at CSIRO, Canberra. During this visit Jason 1) continued work on joint CSIRO - HarvestChoice-UMN assessment of key climate datasets 2) finalization of a survey instrument, survey logistics, sampling strategy and modeling plans for a HarvestChoice-CSIRO-ILRI aflatoxin project in Kenya and Tanzania 3) collaboration with key CSIRO partners to begin a proposal to be submitted to USAID jointly with CSIRO. |
October
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Philip Pardey presents the keynote speech "R&D and Productivity: New Thinking for Local and Global Agriculture in the 21st Century" at the Frontiers in Applied Plant Sciences Borlaug Memorial Lecture. The Borlaug Memorial Lecture commemorates the contributions University of Minnesota alumnus Norman Borlaug made to fighting world hunger and highlights the work being done, both locally and worldwide, to keep Dr. Borlaug's legacy alive. |
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Terry Hurley presents "Biotic Constraints to Agricultural Production: Assessing the Global Risk of Pests & Diseases" during the 39th Session of the Committee on World Food Security Side Event— A Changing Climate: Action Needed for Adaptation to Pests and Diseases in Crops and Livestock, Rome, Italy, |
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Philip Pardey, Terry Hurley and Jason Beddow drive to DuPont-Pioneer headquarters in Johnston, IA, to discuss potential collaboration with and technical support from DuPont Pioneer for HarvestChoice-UMN crop modeling and mapping work with Bill Dolezal and senior Pioneer management. |
September
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Frikkie Liebenberg travels to Nairobi to train Kenyan personnel to implement HarvestChoice-UMN Aflatoxin survey in Kenya and Tanzania. |
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Philip Pardey participates in the Technical Consultation on: “Family Farming for Sustainable Food Security, Agriculture and Rural Development” at FAO Headquarters, Rome, a FAO State of Food and Agriculture Report 2014 planning meeting to discuss potential HarvestChoice input. |
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Philip Pardey presents "Informational Innovations Linking (African) Farms to Markets" to the North American Advisory Board of Rabobank describing HarvestChoice research that helps target investments in agricultural innovation to enhance productivity growth in African agriculture held in Amsterdam. |
August
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Frikkie Liebenberg visits the HarvestChoice-UMN team at University of Minnesota, St. Paul, to plan HarvestChoice aflatoxin survey in Kenya and Tanzania. Jason Beddow, Philip Pardey and Frikkie Liebenberg also initiated the development of a jointly listed and jointly taught MSc course (University of Pretoria and University of Minnesota) designed to help build regional analytical capacity in productivity assessment, research evaluation and science policy. |
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Darren Kriticos led a five-day training course "Ecological Niche Modeling using CLIMEX" at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul. This is the second in a series of pest modeling courses offered by the CSIRO - HarvestChoice-UMN team. The first course was held in Pretoria July 2012. |
