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Program Training Activities
Graduate Training Opportunities
Grantee:
Cornell University
Principal
Investigator: Margaret Smith
Country:
New York
Grant No:
2004 FS 063
Amount:
$194,620
Grantee:
Iowa State University
Principal
Investigator: David Acker
Country:
Iowa
Grant No:
2004 FS 060
Amount:
$165,806
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Renewal of fellowship for advanced training in soil science leading to
the M.S. degree at the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences Michigan
State University, East Lansing renewal of fellowship for advanced
training in soil science leading to the M.S. degree at the Department of
Crop and Soil Sciences Michigan State University, East Lansing
Grantee:
Soil Productivity Research Laboratory, Chemistry & Soil Research
Institute
Principal
Investigator: Michael Andrew Nyika
Country:
Marondera, Zimbabwe
Grant No:
2004 FS 305
Amount:
$6,600
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Renewal of fellowship for advanced training in plant genetics leading to
the Ph.D degrees at the Australian National University and the centre
for the Application of Molecular Biology to international Agriculture,
Canberra, Australia
Grantee:
Tran Ngoc Thach
Country:
Omon, Cantho, Vietnam
Grant No:
2004 FS 302
Amount:
$9,650
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For
use by its African center for Crop Improvement to enable the first
cohort of African students to carry out Ph.D. research in their home
countries: Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zimbabwe
Grantee:
University of Kwazulu-Natal
Country:
Durban, South Africa
Grant No:
2004 FS 018
Amount:
$365,000
Grantee:
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Principal
Investigator: Walter A.J. de Milliano
Country:
Pietemaritzburg, South Africa
Grant No:
2003 FS127
Amount:
$75,000
Other Training Activities
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Consulting and technical assistance to enhance the quality of Ph.D.
training for plant breeders at the African Center for Crop Improvement,
University of Natal.
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Marker Assisted Selection (MAS) Course
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Training farmers and local entrepreneurs in new techniques for the
production, storage and distribution of improved varieties of maize,
rice and other crops in Mozambique
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Developing an
integrated set of recommendations for achieving the Millennium
Development Goals for food security, poverty, environmental
sustainability and water and sanitation by 2015
Grantee:
Colombia University
Country:
New York, New York
Grant No:
2003 FS 142
Amount:
$35,000
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To
assess the extent to which the Essential Electronic Agricultural Library
has succeed in improving developing-country researchers’ and educators’
access to scientific literature and whether such access has had an
impact on research and teaching, and to identify the conditions that
promote the most effective use of the library
Grantee:
Cornell University
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Albert R. Mann Library
Country:
Ithaca, New York
Grant No:
2003 FS 120
Amount:
$70,684
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To enable
scientists from Africa and Asia to attend the Gordon Research Conference
on Salt And water stress in Plants, to be held at the Hong Kong
University of science And Technology, June 13-18, 2004
Grantee:
Gordon Research Conferences
Country:
West Kingston, Rhode Island
Grant No:
2004 FS 021
Amount:
$10,000
Grantee:
International Center for Tropical Agricultural
Country:
Cali, Colombia
Grant No:
2004 FS 016
Amount:
$75,000
Grantee:
International Livestock Research Institute
Country:
Nairobi, Kenya
Grant No.
2003FS 111
Amount:
$45,000
Grantee:
International Plant Genetic Resources Institute
Country:
Rome, Italy
Grant No:
2003 FS 123
Amount:
$71,773
Grantee:
Kasetsart University
Country:
Bangkok, Thailand
Grant No:
2003 FS 113
Amount:
$50,000
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workshop for scientists from Cambodia, China, India, Laos and Thailand,
working on rice genetic improvement, held in Khon Kaen, Thailand,
December 2003
Grantee:
Khon Kaen University
Country:
Khon kaen, Thailand
Grant No:
2003 fs129
Amount:
$40,000
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To
enable African scientists to attend the Maize Genetics, Genomics and
Bioinformatics Workshop and the 46th. Annual Maize Genetic
conference, held in Mexico, March 7-14,2004
Grantee:
University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign
Country:
Urbana, Illinois
Grant No:
2004 FS 001
Amount:
$34,020
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To
support participation of Asian scientists in the combined 4th
International Crop Science Congress and 5th Asian Crop Science Congress,
to be held in Brisbane, Australia, September 2004
Grantee:
University of Queensland
Principal
Investigator: Kenneth Fischer
Country:
Australia
Grant No:
2004 FS 080
Amount:
$12,000
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In
support of travel to enable five scientists from developing countries to
participate in a workshop entitled “Crop Ferality and Volunteerism: A
Threat to Food Security in the Transgenic Era,” to be held at the
Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Italy, May 24-29,2004
Grantee:
Weizmann Institute of Science
Country:
Rehovot, Israel
Grant No:
2004 FS 025
Amount:
$8,400
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