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News. USAID has appointed UC Davis as the management entity for the $15 million 5-year Horticulture CRSP.
UC Davis faculty are world leaders in many areas of agricultural and environmental research. As a consequence, UC Davis provides research collaboration, training and technical support to a range of projects and countries. IP presently has projects working in countries including:
- Afghanistan, Chile, China, Egypt, India, Iraq and Vietnam
IP, primarily through its extensive collaboration with the USDA FAS Cochran program, has supported activities in over forty countries.
See below to learn more about some of our Project, Training, and Fellowship opportunities and activities. In addition to those listed below, there are numerous collaborations between UC Davis faculty and researchers around the globe.
Projects
Country collaborations
UC Davis is active in a number of countries providing technical support, extension system and material development. See examples listed below. To work with UC Davis faculty, provide a brief one page concept proposal and send to International Programs identifying the source of funding to support such collaboration.
International Programs has on-going projects in:
Curriculum development. A curriculum development project partnering with Purdue to strengthen agricultural curricula at 4 Agricultural universities in Afghanistan. Contacts. Tom Rost, Nick Madden and Mark BellChile
Extension development. UC Davis is leading a consortia of universities (Cornell and Purdue) to strengthen the Ministry extension efforts - with as focus on horticultural crops. The USDA FAS funded project has involved in-country training and workshops. Contacts. Jim Hill and Mark Bell
Almond Nursery development. A project with Roots of Peace to enhance marketing opportunities and to enable Afghan nurserymen to produce better quality Almond trees. Contacts. Mark Bell and Corky Lovin
UC Davis is developing initiatives on Rice (Contact Randall Mutters) and presently engaged in helping Chile develop extension models to better reach small scale farmers. Contacts. Jim Hill and Mark BellChina
Regular exchanges of visiting experts Contact. Minghua ZhangEgypt - Horticulture and extension development projects
Irrigation and Extension. UC Davis delivered a 4-week course on irrigation and Extension at UC Davis (August 2009). Contacts. Steve Grattan, Rick Snyder and Mark BellIraq
Horticulture and Extension. UC Davis was a partner in the recently completed (2008) multi-year El Shams project - partnering with CARE - to deliver technical support and training on horticulture and extension. Contacts. Paul Marcotte and Mark Bell
Horticulture and Extension. UC Davis is a participant in the USDA funded project Iraq Agricultural Extension Revitalization (IAER). UC Davis has provided training in horticulture, IPM and post harvest in-region plus a ten-week course at UC Davis with a focus on horticulture and extension. Contacts. Ron Voss and Louise FergusonIndia
Post Harvest Center for Food Safety. UC Davis worked with Indian counterparts to develop a post harvest training center (Project finished 2008) Contacts. Paul MarcotteVietnam
Curricula development UC Davis has curricula development projects with Hanoi Agricultural university and Nong Lam University. Contacts. Richard Plant and Glenn YoungFor information on the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, and its academic and research activities, see: http://caes.ucdavis.edu
Training
IP delivers a number of short courses, workshops and seminars in response to country requests (often as part of collaborative projects - see below). Topics cover themes such as horticulture, extension, livestock, and irrigation.
If you need support, please send us a brief one page summary of your areas of interest, numbers to be trained, length of training desired and the source of funding to support such collaboration.
International Programs offers its own range of on-demand courses through the International Learning Center in:
- Planning and project and people management
- Train-the-trainer, extension and communication methodologies,
- Monitoring and evaluation,
- Knowledge and learning asset management, and
- Basic agronomy
Fellowships
There are a number of programs that support international collaborators to visit UC Davis and/or other USA universities:
- Borlaug. USDA provides funding to support short-term scientific training and collaborative research opportunities at US Universities. See Borlaug
- Cochran. UC Davis is one of the major hosts for providing short-term training and industry visits on the USDA-supported Cochran program. See Cochran
Corky Lovin has led UC Davis programs for Afghanistan, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Georgia, Grenada, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Madagascar, Malaysia, Moldova, Mozambique, Namibia, Oman, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Senegal, Singapore, Sri Lanaka, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen and Zambia - Fulbright. Each year, fulbright fellows from around the world come to UC Davis to study for extended periods. See Fulbright
- Humphrey Fellowship Program. UC Davis is one of a limited number of US campuses hosting a Humphrey Fellow program. The fellows who come for 9 months focus on Agriculture and/or the Environment. See Humphrey
Dr Paul Marcotte and Dr Mark Bell are the co-directors of the program - which has most recently hosted fellows from Armenia, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Djibouti, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Myanmar, Nepal, Panama, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Zambia,
