Special Project Paper

A special project requirement allows students to develop a practical project paper that can be useful to other practitioners and to candidates' future responsibilities. The project may evaluate past work experiences or could be designed as a novel program element for the candidate's current employer. The MPS special project is developed in conjunction with the Special Committee. The special project paper must be approved by the Special Committee and the CALS MPS Committee.

Special project papers of past IARD graduates have focused on specific issues and problems pertaining to agriculture, development and the developing world. Examples of these MPS IARD project papers include:

• Mastering Mystery: Learning to Manage Plant Diseases with Farmers in Honduras and Nicaragua

• Alternative Strategies of Irrigation Development in Cambodia

• Raised Field Systems of Bolivia and Peru: Past and Present

• Low Cost Feeding Strategies for Dual-purpose Cattle in Venezuela

• A Feasibility Study on Solar Water Pumping in Southern Sudan

• Gari Processing in Ghana: A Study of Entrepreneurship and Technical Change in Tropical Agrica

• Food and Nutrition Problems in Ethiopia: Strategies for the Alleviation of Malnutrition

• Grassroots Video for Community Development

• Handbook of Cookstoves for Tanzania

• A Handbook of Village Survey Methodology

• Analysis of Interaction among Four Rural Development Organizations in Southern Honduras

• Private Participation in Protected Area Management in the Dominican Republic

• The Design of Church-related Rural Development Micro-project