In February, the USAID-funded Feed the Future Soybean Innovation Lab (SIL) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign was told to shut down, ending 12 years of work developing a global soybean value chain spanning Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America and Australia. SIL director Pete Goldsmith scraped together short-term funding from the university to keep the lab running through April 15, what was expected to be its final day.Read More
Last-Minute Gift Saves Global Soybean Research Lab
