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Tanzanian farmers learn to store their maize in PICS bags
CASH-Tz: improving access to safe grain storage in Tanzania

Fighting food insecurity isn’t as simple as growing more food. One of the biggest hurdles for countries on the path to alleviating hunger is actually what to do with surplus grain after harvest. Grain that is not sold or eaten immediately, nor stored properly, is vulnerable to insects and fungi that reduce the quality of the food and can even release dangerous toxins.

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Plant pressings, photo albums and portals into our past

“When people have a fire or natural disasters in their homes, the first things they’ll grab are the photo albums. We need to appreciate that our herbaria are our photo albums of natural biodiversity. These samples are essentially our snapshots of Indiana across time.” -Rabern Simmons, curator of fungi at Purdue University Herbaria

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Purdue geomatics professor debuts open-source platform at upcoming NAPPN meeting

When someone wants to watch or share a video, they likely go to the free video sharing website YouTube, says Jinha Jung, associate professor of civil engineering. “Everybody knows about YouTube, and they use it. In return, what YouTube gets is centralized big video data,” he adds.

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