Collaboration with Uruguay will provide the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) at North Carolina State University (NCSU) opportunities to strengthen the global competence of its faculty, students, and staff and improve service to the state's growing Latino population. The goal of this project is to build a partnership between NCSU-CALS and two institutions in Uruguay, the Batoví Instituto Orgánico International and Universidad de la Empresa, that will promote internationalization of research, extension, and education.
The objectives of the project are:
(1) to enhance NCSU faculty, student, and extension agent knowledge of international organic production technologies, marketing, and food safety
(2) to involve NCSU faculty and students in international collaborative research on organic agriculture in Uruguay
(3) to internationalize the outlook of extension programs in North Carolina
(4) to integrate international themes and examples into food and agriculture courses at NCSU.
Our approach to is to form an interdisciplinary team of faculty, extension agents, and students to implement research, extension, and education programs in Uruguay focused on increasing the scientific knowledge base of organic agriculture and improving Spanish language proficiency and cultural understanding. Project activities will include team training, partnership development with Uruguayan institutions, a short course on Organic Agriculture and Culture in Uruguay, application of lessons learned, and dissemination of results.
Through project activities, faculty will enhance international and organic agriculture programs, extension agents will have a greater capacity to provide organic agriculture training and work effectively with Latino constituents, and students will have a deeper understanding of international agriculture.
The Project Team consists of six working groups, each with a designated area of focus (see listing below). Each working group is led by a project leader and will include students, extension agents, and additional faculty members interested in developing research, extension, and education programs relevant to the group's area of focus. |
Project Leaders:
Dr. Paul Mueller, Dept of Crop Science
Organic Crop Production
Gary Bullen, Dept of Ag & Resource Economics
Marketing & Economics of Organic Crops
Dr. Nancy Creamer, Dept of Horticultural Science
Organic Horticulture
Dr. Sophia Kathariou, Dept of Food Science
Food Safety & Organic Production
Dr. Jean-Marie Luginbuhl, Depts of Crop & Animal Science
Organic Livestock Production
Dr. Michelle Schroeder, Dept of Crop Science
International & Organic Agriculture Education
|
