AGIN Goat Stories Around the Web
Branching Out Newsletter (US Forest Service): Visitor & Co-Host Spotlight: Keabetswe Tebogo Ncube from South Africa, and Co-Hosts Curt Van Tassell and Ben Rosen, USDA ARS Beltsville MD , November 2017
Sowetan,South Africa: Special Goats to Boost Local Farmers , November 2017
USDA Blog: The Benefits of Studying a Domestic Goat with an Interesting History , April 2017
Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC): Govt, LUANAR for Conservation of Indigenous Genetic Materials for Breeding , June 2016
ARS International: African Goat Improvement Network (AGIN) Fourth International Meeting Held at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome , February 2016
ARS International: Joint ARS and South Africa Agricultural Research Council (ARC) Delegation Visits Malawi Community Based Breeding Program Research Sites , February 2016
ARS International: ARS Units Collaborate to Develop Novel Genome Assembly Method , January 2015
ARS International: Jennifer Woodward-Greene Invited as One Health Panelist to Discuss Data Collection via Mobile Technology on the Goat Project , August 2014
USAID Feed the Future News: Clet Wandui Masiga, Biologist for ASARECA, featured AGIN partner in the Feed the Future Newsletter , August 2014
Golden Helix: Former USDA Post Doc Heather Huson, and Golden Helix Abstract Winner, Gives Golden Helix Webinar on AGIN , (video link, AGIN content starts at 18:13), July 2014
ARS International: African Goat Improvement Project (AGIN) III Workshop, Ethiopia , June 2014
Live Science: Papadum the Goat and His Model Genome (Gallery) , June 2014
YouTube: USDA Video 'Researching Goats to Address World Hunger' , May, 2014
YouTube: USDA Video Featuring Tad Sonstegard in the lab with ARS Administrator , April 2014
USAID Feed the Future News: Scaling Up Community-Based Breeding Programs Through Local Capacity Development , February 27, 2014
iCommunity Newsletter: One of the Least Studied Ruminants Finally Gets Its Time in the Genomics Spotlight (pdf) , October 2013
World Bank: Dr. Tad Sonstegard gives a "Lightning Presentation" at the G8 Open Data for Agriculture Conference - see him at 2:41:21 in this video , May 2013
Modern Farmer: This Will Be the World's First Global Goat Database , May 3, 2013
USDA Science Blog: Using Data to Change The World One Goat at a Time , April 30, 2013
ARS International: African Goat Improvement Project (AGIN) II Workshop, Ethiopia , March 2013
George Mason University News: Mason is Pioneering Research: Student Seeks Sustainable Solution to Hunger , May 14, 2012
USAID Feed the Future News: FtF Launches New African Goat Production Project , March 29, 2012
USDA Science Blog: In Support of Feed the Future and Global Food Security , March 27, 2012
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