Food Security Group Receives 4 5 Million Dollar USDA Grant for Agricultural Policy Project msu.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msu.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
MSU gets approval to build aquatic food research center in Jackson County
The Northern Gulf Aquatic Food Research Center is designed to help rebuild and strengthen the regionâs seafood industry and economy.
MSU get approve to build aquatic food research center in Jackson County By WLOX Staff | February 17, 2021 at 6:59 AM CST - Updated February 17 at 9:06 AM
JACKSON COUNTY, Miss. (WLOX) - Mississippi State has received formal approval to build the Northern Gulf Aquatic Food Research Center, a multimillion dollar facility in Ocean Springs and the first of its kind on the Mississippi Coast.
The Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning, Jackson County Board of Supervisors and Jackson County Port Authority have formally approved siting the center on four acres in the Sunplex Light Industrial Park, located on Mississippi Highway 57, approximately one mile from Interstate 10 and U.S. Hwy 90.
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New Research in Kenya Tests Digital Advisories to Promote Resilience in Farming Communities
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Farmers disproportionately bear the burden of climate change and the extreme unpredictable weather it brings. This is particularly true in Sub-Saharan Africa, where in the past year alone farmers in some areas have faced severe drought while others experienced heavy, unseasonal rains. Timely and actionable information could help farmers to maintain their main source of food and income in a changing climate.
With support from USAID, a research team from the Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development at Egerton University, Kenya, has launched new research to evaluate the impacts of a government program that provides farmers weather and market information to their phones. This US $449,255 (KSH 49,597,752) three-year study is testing how access to weather and market advisories could help farmers adapt to climate change while increasing their overall productivity and resilie
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From my grass-roots work in Western India with “marginal” farmers, who own or are sharecroppers for land under 1 hectare or 2.5 acres in area, where I helped to establish micro-finance societies enabling these farmers to fund asset purchases, to my supervision of a 12-year infrastructure project for the largest dairy in Asia processing about 1.5 million kilograms of milk daily, procured from 4.5 million milk producers my background and interests help me to enable millions of farmers to be successful.