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	<title>AgriLife Today » World Agriculture</title>
	
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		<title>Borlaug Institute receives Program Partner of the Year Award</title>
		<link>http://today.agrilife.org/2012/05/11/borlaug-institute-jmg-partner-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 15:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Honor presented for Junior Master Gardener program efforts in Central America SAN ANTONIO &#8212; The Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture, part of the Texas A&#38;M University System, has been presented the Program Partner of the Year Award by the Junior Master Gardener program for its work in Central America. The award was presented during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former AgriLife Extension agent takes on new role in South Africa</title>
		<link>http://today.agrilife.org/2012/04/20/agrilife-agent-south-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ALMA, South Africa – A former Texas AgriLife Extension Service county agent is now farm manager for the Ukulima Farm Research Center in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. Bob Whitney, who retired as an AgriLife Extension agent for agriculture for Williamson County and had previous agency positions in different counties, has been at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas A&amp;M administrator takes on new role in world’s newest country</title>
		<link>http://today.agrilife.org/2012/04/03/texas-am-administrator-takes-on-new-role-in-worlds-newest-country/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 3, 2012 By: Paul Schattenberg, 210-467-6575, paschattenberg@ag.tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION &#8212; Dr. Steve Whisenant, who for the past nine years has served as head of the ecosystem science and management department at Texas A&#38;M University in College Station, has recently taken on a new position in the world’s newest nation – South Sudan. Whisenant recently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ag official: Future global food security, supplies depend on agriculture researchers, educators</title>
		<link>http://today.agrilife.org/2012/03/28/ag-official-future-global-food-security-supplies-depend-on-agriculture-researchers-educators/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ka-phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writer: Kathleen Phillips, 979-845-2872, ka-phillips@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – With 9 billion people expected on Earth within 40 years and the resulting pressure on food supplies and natural resources, agricultural researchers and educators will play a vital role in finding solutions, according to a top U.S. Department of Agriculture official. “Food and agriculture are universal – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Howard G. Buffett Foundation, Borlaug Institute collaborate to advance African agriculture, fight hunger</title>
		<link>http://today.agrilife.org/2012/01/17/buffett-borlaug-collaborate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; JOHANNESBURG &#8212;  The Howard G. Buffett Foundation today announced a partnership with the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture of the Texas A&#38;M University System to promote African agricultural research, extension, and education. The partnership will be based at the Ukulima Farm Research Center in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. It will support [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Ambassadors Cousin, Chacón visit Borlaug Institute program site in Guatemala</title>
		<link>http://today.agrilife.org/2011/12/22/u-s-ambassadors-bi-guatemala/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; CHIMALTENANGO &#8212; Ambassador Ertharin Cousin, U.S. Representative to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, recently visited the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture&#8217;s training center in Guatemala. For years the Borlaug Institute, part of the Texas A&#38;M University System, has spearheaded multiple agricultural improvement efforts in Guatemala through a U.S Department of Agriculture-funded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Major associations voice support for World Coffee Research</title>
		<link>http://today.agrilife.org/2011/12/19/world-coffee-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paschattenberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; COLLEGE STATION &#8212; The National Coffee Association and Specialty Coffee Association of America have publicly expressed their support for the work of World Coffee Research. World Coffee Research is the non-profit agricultural organization created by the Global Coffee Quality Research Initiative, or GCCQRI, to implement a global coffee quality research program, according to program [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Borlaug Institute assisting South Sudan through on-site agricultural support</title>
		<link>http://today.agrilife.org/2011/11/23/borlaug-institute-support-south-sudan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paschattenberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; BOR, South Sudan &#8212; From the freshly paved roads of Juba to muddy rural paths clogged with bighorn cattle, the people of South Sudan are busy building a new country with help from a new agricultural development partnership. Through a recent agreement with the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Norman Borlaug Institute for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media Advisory: Texas A&amp;M University key part of global effort aimed at saving Earth’s endangered species</title>
		<link>http://today.agrilife.org/2011/11/10/media-advisory-texas-am-university-key-part-of-global-effort-aimed-at-saving-earths-endangered-species/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Byrns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WHAT: Texas A&#38;M University is a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List Partnership. The partnership provides general oversight and guidance to the Red List, a process which lists the world’s endangered species. Ten entities worldwide take part in the effort, and Texas A&#38;M is the only American university involved. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas A&amp;M System researchers sought for Agent Orange remediation</title>
		<link>http://today.agrilife.org/2011/10/14/texas-am-system-researchers-sought-for-agent-orange-remediation/</link>
		<comments>http://today.agrilife.org/2011/10/14/texas-am-system-researchers-sought-for-agent-orange-remediation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>skledbetter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COLLEGE STATION – It’s been almost 50 years since Agent Orange was spread as a jungle defoliant across parts of Vietnam in a conflict that has since healed, but the same may not be true for the land, according to Texas A&#38;M University and Texas AgriLife Research officials who are being sought out for some [...]]]></description>
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