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Dec 8, 2020
IICA has for over 75 years sought to "encourage, promote and support the efforts of the Member States [stretching from Canada to Argentina] to achieve their agricultural development and rural welfare by means of international technical cooperation of excellence." Objectives include:
1.To approach for monitoring, managing and sequestrating soil organic carbon (SOC)
2. To serve as a bridge between science, policy and development work on soil health restoration in the Americas, building capacity and using resourcesmart approaches to achieve multiple development goals:
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Dec 4, 2020
CFAES and Kazakh National Agrarian Research University (KazNARU) are working together in many areas including having submitted four research proposals more than a dozen peer-reviewed journal articles.
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Nov 24, 2020
Despite having to scale back due to COVID-19 restrictions, The East African Vegetable Crop Integrated Pest Management Innovation Lab (EAVCIPM-IL) continues to develop, implement, and scale-up IPM technologies for tomato, onion, African eggplant, cabbage, chilies, and beans. The overall goal of EAVCIPM-IL, now in its sixth year of funding, is to build the capacity of institutions in the host countries of Tanzania, Ethiopia and Kenya, to implement effective IPM research and locally-adapted, gender-appropriate technology transfer programs that increase environmental benefits, farm productivi
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Nov 24, 2020
With Hurricanes Eta and Iota having hit Honduras fewer than two weeks apart and flooding to this day, two members of the Entomology Department at OSU Wooster, graduate student Ana Trabanino Pino and visiting scholar Erick Martinez Rodriguez put out a call for donations. In less than a week, they rented a 20-foot truck (after receiving too much bedding, tents, clothing, medicine etc.
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Nov 16, 2020
Dr. Barbara Kowalcyk and the Center for Foodborne Illness Research and Prevention (housed in CFAES’s Department of Food Science and Technology) recently received almost $700,000 from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Purdue University’s Food Safety Innovation Lab (FSIL) toward improving food safety in Kenya. The team includes her department mates Kara Morgan and Ahmed Yousef as well as Sanja Ilic and Robert Scharff from OSU, three Kenyans, and two from The University of Florida.
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Nov 9, 2020
Rafael Quijada Landaverde, a Ph.D. student in the lab of Dr. Mary Rodriguez, is one of seven students combatting food insecurity in the US and Mexico. These Kirchner Food Fellows began meeting virtually in September and decided they would concentrate on using the $50,000 that the program enables them to invest in companies working on water: from water governance to irrigation or drinking water.
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Oct 7, 2020
The Office of International Affairs (OIA) has released its 2019 annual report on International Partnerships and CFAES played an integral role in contributing to the success by maintaining and establishing relationships with partner institutions in many different countries.
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Aug 10, 2020
COVID-19 has had an unparalleled effect on K-12 education. Join the College of Education and Human Ecology Aug. 11 6:30-7:30 p.m. for a conversation about keeping students, educators and staff safe. Featured are Sanja Ilic, associate professor, Department of Human Sciences, and Charlie Keenan, Maple Heights City Schools superintendent and president of the EHE Alumni Society Board of Governors.
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Aug 3, 2020
The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) bestowed the dual titles of IICA Chair in Soil Science and IICA Goodwill Ambassador for Sustainable Development Issues on Dr. Rattan Lal during a virtual ceremony held Friday, July 17.
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Apr 10, 2020
The Ohio State University has ranked No. 6 among large schools on the Peace Corps’ list of top volunteer-producing colleges and universities in 2020. There are 62 Buckeyes currently volunteering in countries around the world.
The university held strong at its No. 6 spot from last year’s ranking on the annual list. Consistently ranked in the top 10 for the last eight years, Buckeyes have shown their commitment to helping people in interested countries meet their need for trained men and women. The university is among three Ohio schools on the list this year.
