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Apr 11, 2014
It’s hard to find another international institution that the College of Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) at The Ohio State University (OSU) has been collaborating with longer than Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) in India. The relationship between the two universities, which dates back to the 1950’s when OSU worked with the USAID and the Ford Foundation to build land-grant institutions of higher agricultural education in northern India, has taken on a new role as OSU, through the Office of International Programs in Agriculture (IPA), transitions its relationship with PAU to collaboratively provide agricultural development inputs to Egerton University Faculty of Agriculture in Kenya.
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Mar 13, 2014
Scientists at The Ohio State University’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences have been working for five years in Kenya on a problem that has plagued local farmers. Mark Erbaugh, Office of International Programs in Agriculture; Sally Miller, Department of Plant Pathology; Luis Cañas, Department of Entomology, and Matt Kleinhenz, Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, all have been engaged with the Kongai Tisa Farmer Association in Kirinyaga County, Kenya, to help improve their production and manage critical pests and diseases of tomato, their most important cash crop. This project, which is conducted through the USAID-supported Integrated Pest Management Innovation Lab (IPM-IL) in East Africa, began five years ago when Kenyan farmers indicated a variety of diseases and insect pests were reducing their tomato harvest. These diseases include bacterial wilt, late blight, and Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TLCV) – a disease commonly vectored by whitefly, the American bollworm, and thrips.
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Feb 28, 2014
Dean Bruce McPheron addressed 28 members of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities’ (APLU) International Agriculture Section on February 7th during the group’s first online webinar.
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Feb 12, 2014
Getting information to and from farmers is a huge challenge in Tanzania - a nation the size of Texas and New Mexico combined. Of the country’s 45 million people, 80 % are engaged in small-holder agriculture and have limited access to new production information or knowledge of agricultural markets. Dr. Catherine Msuya, Head of the Department of Agriculture, Education, and Extension at the Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) in Morogoro, Tanzania, points out however, the number of farmers who are sufficiently informed of the aspects of agriculture can increase through improved extension services in Tanzania.
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Jan 16, 2014
Capacity building doesn’t occur spontaneously. Nor is it achieved through individuals and organizations acting independently. Two Ohio State graduate students in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) exemplified these notions with their recent selection as U.S.
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Dec 31, 2013
Dr. Yemi Akinbamijo, Executive Director of the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), visited CFAES on December 19th and 20th. FARA is the technical arm of the African Union that convenes stakeholders to improve agricultural research & productivity on the continent. Dr. Akinbamijo was also joined by his senior technical advisor, Dr. Aggrey Agumya.
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Dec 18, 2013
Laura Binkley, a graduate student in the School of Environment and Natural Resources, took part in a research mission to Ethiopia this past summer as a part of the One Health Initiative. Laura and her collegues worked with professionals at the University of Gondar to measure public perception on rabies transmission in order to discover alternative modes of transmission.
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Dec 10, 2013
Nearly 100 researchers gathered at Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) in Morogoro, Tanzania from November 13th-15th for a conference entitled “Climate Change, Sustainable Intensification and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa”. The conference was hosted by SUA , Norwegian University of Agriculture, and iAGRI - a major food security project in Tanzania funded by USAID and administered by the Office of International Programs in Agriculture (IPA) in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES). The Ohio State University leads a consortium of five other U.S. land grant universities to implement iAGRI, a project designed to strengthen the training and research capacity of Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania.
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Nov 21, 2013
Eleven faculty members and administrators from the University of Gondar (UOG) in Ethiopia visited the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) on Thursday, November 14th as a part of Ohio State’s participation in the One Health Initiative. One Health supports collaborative research recognizing the intertwined relationships between animal health, human health, and the environment. Discussions with CFAES faculty and tours of the facilities were coordinated by the College’s Office of International Programs in Agriculture (IPA), whose mission is to support the globalization efforts of the College through international research, extension, and learning.
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Nov 18, 2013
Dr. Rattan Lal, Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science and Director of the Carbon Management and Sequestration Center at The Ohio State University, shared his perspectives on a panel entitled “Resilience and Reality: The Future of a Climate Volatile Planet” on October 18th at the 2013 Borlaug Dialogue International Symposium. Dr.
