Developing Leaders and Improving Lives in the World's Developing Countries
The Professional Development unit of International Programs plans and manages short- and long-term learning experiences for hundreds of international visitors each year in plant breeding and pathology, food marketing and processing, animal sciences, research management, farmer-led research, and other sciences. It also coordinates the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program at Cornell, which brings up to 15 mid-career professionals from around the world to Cornell each year to expand their professional skills through course work, independent projects, special seminars, and interaction with faculty and off-campus experts in their field.
Your participation in a professional development or training program with Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences International Programs office will put you in touch with some of the latest developments in research, teaching and extension. The resources to support international activities at Cornell University are numerous.
Cornell University is the land grant university for New York state, there are extension educators in every county, agribusiness, industries and public agencies alike have developed good relations with our faculty for field trips and additional references for our visitors. More than half of the 365 faculty members within the College of Agriculture have worked on international projects in other countries. Take a look at some of the other country based and thematic programs within CIIFAD to get an idea of our current/past activities.
In addition to the 745 acre campus the university's extended campus includes an agricultural and experiment station in Geneva, a vineyard research laboratory in Fredonia, and animal science teaching and research center in Harford, a teaching and research forest in two counties, and urban programs in New York City and Washington D.C. You are not limited to the short courses described in this section. If you are a sponsoring organization and have a request for a group of people, please contact us to find out if we can tailor a program to meet your needs, both within the U.S. or within another country.
Norman E. Borlaug Fellowship Program for Serbia
sponsored by USDA/FAS/Research and Scientific Exchanges
September 19-October 25, 2009
Ksenija Nesic, Researcher with the Scientific Institute of Veterinary Medicine of Serbia
will work with CU Prof. Dan Brown to learn more about animal nutrition and different feed inspection laboratory techniques. Her research interests are based on mycotoxicological inspection of eed, and clinical manifestations of diseases caused by mycotoxins.
Sanja Seratlic, Teaching Assistant, Institute for Food Technology and Biochemistry, Department of Animal Products Technology, University of Belgrade
will work with CU Prof. Carmen Moraru, Department of Food Science for investigation of technology, and quality control of autochthonous dairy products
NY Youth Institute Leadership Development Day at Cornell University
September 19, 2009
A program for high school students and their mentors
This program is affiliated with the World Food Prize Global Youth Institute and Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
and sponsored by the Emerson Foundation and the American Agriculturist Foundation
More information and an application can be found at this link http://www.worldfoodprize.org/youth/
USDA Borlaug Fellowship Program for Cameroun in Food Security
Dates to Be Announced
2010 Rice Research to Production
Application for Participation [Word]
USDA Cochran Fellows from West Africa September 21 — 25, 2009
Visit to Cornell University and Fingerlakes Region
A team of 6 mid-level officials from the ministries of agriculture of Ghana, Liberia and Nigeria will be led by Dr. John Lee, former administrator for USDA's Economic Research Service and Professor Emeritus, Mississippi State University. The team members are mostly mid-level officials from the ministries of agriculture of Ghana, Liberia and Nigeria.
Purpose of visit: Learn to develop improved markets for their products.
Rice Research to Production Shortcourse
This 3 wk course at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines is supported through a NSF grant, coordinated by CU Prof. Susan McCouch. Ten U.S. participants are selected to attend the course through a competitive application, managed by CU'sInternational Programs Professional Development office. The U.S. students are part of a 28 participants from other rice growing countries in the world. The purpose of the course is to create a new generation of plant scientists that are well networked into the international community and understand the importance of innovative plant science in addressing global problems. The course provided the participants with the following:
http://www.ricediversity.org/outreach/researchtoproduction
Chongqiing Forestry delegation May 2009
Mr. Ren Luo, President, Chongqing Forestry Society
Mr. Yanghui Geng, Vice Director, Chongqing Forestry Research Institute
Ms. Lihua Lou, Director, Horticulture Center, Chongqing Forestry Research Institute
Purpose: a research team working on the ecorestoration and rehabilitation of the water-fluctuation zone of the Three Gorges Reservoir Region to learn and share experiences and techniques adopted in the U.S. to manage water fluctuation zones in China.
Dr. Frans Swanepoel, a Fulbright Fellow from South Africa from August 08 to May 09
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Horticulture Department
Dr. Selvaraj Nanjaiah and Dr. Devasenapathy July - August 2008
Training in organic production and marketing.
USDA Foreign Agriculture Service's Division of Scientific Exchanges and Cooperation sent two training delegations from China
WANG, Daolong, Deputy Director, Agri-Regional Division Institute of China Academy of Agricultural Sciences
WANG, Zhuyun, Director, Department of Science, Technology & Education, MOA
ZHANG, Xinming, Director, Center of Scientific &Technologic Development, MOA
LU, Xinxiong, Researcher, Crop Science Institute of China Academy of Agricultural Sciences
LI, Shaokun, Deputy Director, Crop Science Institute of China Academy of Agricultural Sciences
SUN, Hongwu, Deputy Director, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jiangsu Province
Lin, Luogeng, Associate Adviser, Center of International Cooperation and Service , MOA Interpreter
Objectives:
ZHU, Enlin, Director, National Agro-technical Extension & Service Center,
Ministry of Agriculture
LI, Ping, Senior Agronomist, National Agro-technical Extension &Service Center, Ministry of Agriculture
WANG, Shengqiao, Director, General Plant Protection Station, Hubei Province
Zhang, Yanxuan, Researcher, Plant Protection Station, Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences
XU, Yan, Interpreter, Center for International Cooperation and Service, Ministry of Agriculture
Objectives:
Visit American agricultural bio-control technology research institutes and extension agents: to learn the new development of bio-control research and its extension and application. To learn regulations, standard and financial supports in research and extension of biological control technology in U.S. To learn new philosophy and method of biological control research and extension, and legislation, policy, working system of American agricultural extension. Visit USDA, universities, local extension stations and grassroots extension stations: to learn the linkage among American agricultural research, education and extension. Visit American agricultural biological pesticides enterprises: to learn the biological pesticides development and marketing. Visit some farms: to learn the situation of biological control technology use and how American farmers get agricultural extension services.
Keegan Kautzky, Director of Outreach for World Food Prize Youth Institute visited Cornell University in January to help IP/CALS establish a New York Youth Institute for high school students
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Agency for International Development and U.S. Department of State are sponsoring fellowships to provide training and collaborative
research opportunities for scientists, faculty and policy makers for 4-10 weeks from the following countries
Fellowships now available for participants from the following countries:
| Afghanistan Algeria Armenia Bangladesh Belize Bulgaria Burkina Faso Cameroon China Costa Rica El Salvador Ecuador Ethiopia |
Egypt Ghana Guyana Georgia Guatemala Honduras India Morocco Nicaragua Nigeria Oman |
Panama Peru Philippines Romania Senegal Serbia-Montenegro Sri Lanka Tunisia Uruguay Vietnam Yeman |
Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has trained 25 young scientists from
Serbia and Montenegro, Bulgaria and Uruguay in the fields of plant breeding, plant pathology, dairy management and biotechnology.
The Cornell University Agricultural Research and Experiment Station for New York State in Geneva faculty have mentored many Borlaug Fellows.
Notable is the ongoing projects and research with Dr. Courtney Weber in the development of raspberry and strawberry varieties for temperate climates with the Fruit and Grape Research Center in Serbia. Also Dr. Jay Freer and Dr. Terrence Robinson's work in sweet and tart cherries. Cornell has the largest set of plum rootstock experiments in N. America
Borlaug Fellows have found Cornell University to have excellent ties to agribusiness in the region, and the resources on campus from the libraries to the diagnostic tools that faculty have developed for the public to be extremely valuable to their work.
Educational tool for fruit growers and homeowners
Good Agricultural Practices for Food Safety
Milk Quality Improvement Program
For more information about the Borlaug Fellowship Program contact the Coordinator
Francine Wilson Jasper
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