Feeding the World Through Agricultural Science
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The Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture at Texas A&M University has the mission of using agricultural science to fight hunger and promote economic growth and mutual respect. It began in 1984 and was redesignated in 2006 as the Borlaug Institute. The Institute leads major agricultural projects across the developing world and has expertise in all areas of agriculture production, processing, marketing, nutrition and the environment. It can offer training and develop agricultural capacity due to its resources at Texas A&M and experience working in diverse climates worldwide.
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Feeding the World Through Agricultural Science
- 1. • • Mission To employ agricultural science to feed the hungry and to support equity, economic growth, quality of life and mutual respect among people • Began in 1984 as Office of International Agriculture Programs Board of Regents 2006 re-designates office as the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture Borlaug Institute continues expansion, leading major projects across the developing world
- 4. Agricultural Expertise United States’ largest agricultural program: the gamut of agriculture from production to consumption • • • • • Production Processing Marketing Nutrition Environment
- 5. Institutional Expertise • • • • • • • United States’ largest agricultural program Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory School of Rural Public Health The Bush School of Government and Public Service Texas Transportation Institute TAMU School of Law Office of the State Chemist
- 6. Climatic Zones Texas’ large and diverse landscape replicates nearly every climatic zone found on Earth
- 7. Development Capacity Value Chain Intervention • Rwanda Pyrethrum Program (Pyramid II GDA) • Rwanda Coffee Program (SPREAD) • Guatemala Coffee Program • Ethiopia Meat Production Program (SPS-LMM) Sustainable Intensification | Crop Production • Small Scale Irrigation Project in Ghana, Ethiopia and Tanzania • Iraq Agricultural Extension Revitalization Program (IAER) • Afghanistan Livestock Forage Program (PEACE) Capacity Building • Indonesia Tropical Plant Curriculum Program (TPC) • Borlaug Institute International Training Program
- 8. International Training Select Training Capabilities • • • • • • • • Food safety Land and water management Ecosystems management Livestock production systems Renewable energy Crop improvement Irrigation Custom training courses
- 9. International Training | Select Examples Sustainable land and water management: Water use Efficiency and Water Capture training | Spring 2014 | 3 trainees Crop improvement for ag production systems intensification: Biotechnology for Crop Development and Production Improvement training | Fall 2013 | 1 trainee Sustainable control of major insect pests: Cotton Boll Weevil training for Borlaug Fellows from Egypt | 2010 | 3 trainees Improvement of food safety and food control systems: Meat and Poultry Inspection training. Trainees from: • Latin America, 2013 | 12 trainees • Brazil, 2013 | 4 trainees • Indonesia, 2013 | 3 trainees • Ukraine , 2014 | 4 trainees
- 13. Texas Ecoregions
- 15. Organization
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- Enhancing DRC Military Agriculture Infrastructure: • Trains soldiers to be sustainable farmers and provide food for the base. DRC often faces food shortages in which even the military can’t feed its own men. • Soldiers learn to farm, keeping them from resorting to violence to secure food, but also allowing them to take their skills home to teach their neighbors.South Sudan:• Trains SPLA soldiers to be sustainable farmers and provide food for the base. DRC often faces food shortages in which even the military can’t feed its own men. • Soldiers learn to farm, keeping them from resorting to violence to secure food, but also allowing them to take their skills home to teach their neighbors.Rwanda SPREAD Program: • Borlaug flagship program• Work organizing and setting up coffee cooperatives in Rwanda • Much work along the coffee value chain in country, creating income for more than 40 Rwandans• Village of Butare now has a coffee-processing station, two restaurants, a pharmacy, a bank, six hair salons, and the village’s first internet cafe. Rwanda Pyrethrum Program (Pyramid II):• Work setting up Pyrethrum co-ops in Rwanda• Value chain interventions apply models from SPREAD coffee project• Work with smallholder farmers, pyrethrum refiners and buyers to boost pyrethrum production and use it as a rotation crop to enhance potato production (Rwanda’s most prevalent food/cash crop.) Afghanistan PEACE: Pastoral Engagement, Adaptation and Capacity Enhancement:• Promote development of the extensive livestock sector by supporting policy planning, pastoral land tenure conflict resolution, introduction of new technologies to improve rangeland management, and livestock production and marketing. • Helps Afghan government personnel plan and implement livestock development and rangeland resource management.SPS-LMM: Ethiopia Sanitary & Phytosanitary Standards and Livestock & Meat Marketing Program:• funded by USAID to serve a national mandate for increasing exports from cattle, sheep, and goats from crop-livestock systems in the highlands as well as from pastoral systems in the lowlands.Indonesia Tropical Plant Curriculum• Seek new uses for tropical plant species, many of which are exclusive to the islands of Indonesia.• A planned, government-funded Electron beam installation (unrelated to the TPC) could open new opportunities for fruit and vegetable sales to other countries as a new technology for decontaminating fruits and vegetables. • Improve science curriculum for 3 universities in-country (Bogor Agricultural University, Udayana University, Sam Ratulangi University• Community education activities related to tropical plant production and utilization are ongoing at all three locations. A total of about 750 community members have received training thus far. • Over 500 public school students have received training thus far through this program.• Course modules have already enriched 12 university-level courses with a cumulative enrollment of about 650 students, about 50% female.USAID Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small-Scale Irrigation• Identifying promising, context-appropriate, small-scale irrigation interventions, management and practices for poverty reduction and improved nutrition outcomes• Evaluating production, environmental, economic, nutritional, and gender impacts, trade-offs, and synergies of small scale irrigation technologies and practices• Identifying key constraints and opportunities to improve access to small scale irrigation technologies and practices• Capacity Development and Stakeholder Engagement• $12.5 million award