MEAS hosted a symposium on “Strengthening Extension and Advisory Services for Lasting Impacts” in Washington D.C. For more information visit their website.
Read Dr. Keith M. Moore’s paper based on his presentation at the MEAS Symposium on the “AET Challenge.”
The theme of the Association for International Agricultural Extension Education’s 2015 annual conference is Competence and Excellence in Extension and Education. This 4-day conference will combine abstract presentations, professional development seminars, and two keynote speakers. Participants will have the option of tours of the Netherlands on the final day. Posters have also been accepted for display, to create a forum for the exchange of best practices and research findings in the pursuit of educational excellence.
AIARD is hosting their 51st annual conference in Washington D.C. on “Fostering Innovation in International Agriculture and Rural Development.” For more information and registration visit their website.
InnovATE and the Agriculture and Forestry University (AFU) teamed up to organize and conduct a workshop with support from WINROCK’s Farmer-to-Farmer Program, Principia College, Virginia Tech, and iDE Nepal. Agriculture and natural resource faculty from several institutions across Nepal gathered to learn transformative teaching skills and identify the current issues impacting Nepal’s agriculture and natural resource sectors. Continue reading
InnovATE hosted a symposium at the University of Florida in Gainesville that was centered on preparing successful students, faculty and institutions. Speakers from USAID, Higher Education for Development, World Bank, and various Universities both domestic and in Africa contributed to panels on these three areas, as well as a panel specifically on ensuring re-entry success for African faculty studying in the U.S. Continue reading
A group of experts was sequestered for a two-day workshop to set up a TAP framework for assessing the needs for and develop ways to meet needs for agriculture innovations systems capacity development.
See the TAP Workshop Agenda here.
See key concepts and definitions used at the workshop here.
By: Laina Schneider
Landlocked high in the Pamir mountain range of Central Asia is a country which often appears on lists of the least visited places on earth. Tajikistan is wedged between western China and Afghanistan, and was the poorest republic of the Soviet Union. Following independence in 1991, while former Soviet neighbors made great economic strides, the country was engaged in a civil war which lasted through the 1990s. Continue reading
