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Flexibility, Communication, and an Enthusiastic Approach to Overcoming Challenges in Guinea
September 12, 2017|volunteer
My assignment was a five-day training for extension agents on the safe use of pesticides and integrated pest management strategies for mitigating pests of horticultural crops. Initially, my assignment was to take place in the Kindia region but was relocated to Conakry to accommodate beneficiaries experiencing budget changes. Because of the last-minute change, I was […]
Water and Ecosystems: The Importance of Environmental Flows
September 12, 2017|post
Water is an essential resource that underpins human societies and is a requirement for ecosystem health. Availability of clean and reliable supplies of water is central to many, if not all, development challenges. Through water management infrastructure, including dams and reservoirs, irrigated areas, levees and canals, we secure water supplies and manage risks to communities […]
From ADC Scholar to a Lifetime of Service in Nepal
September 7, 2017|post
By Chris Warren Although he had always been a top student, there was one test Hari Upadhyaya desperately wanted to fail. As a young civil servant working for Nepal’s Department of Agriculture in the 1980s, Upadhyaya plotted out a career path that he hoped would include earning an advanced degree in agricultural science that he […]
SAFETI January 2017 – September 2021
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SAFETI’s vision is that by 2021, the project will have supported efforts to significantly increase farmed shrimp and prawn productivity and national exports and production; an increase in the income of all value chain participants – particularly farmers but also input suppliers and others, and an improvement in the quality of exported shrimp and prawn.
One Assignment. Two Volunteer Perspectives.
September 7, 2017|volunteer
Dr. Usha Palaniswamy and Dr. Grant Jackson recently volunteered in Bangladesh, assisting the International University of Business Agriculture and Technology (IUBAT): College of Agriculture Science to develop curriculum for their new Master of Science in Agriculture programs in Agronomy and Horticulture. Below are their reflections of their assignment. Dr. Jackson is a retired Professor of […]
Creative Minds Working Together on Labor Day
September 2, 2017|volunteer
On this Labor Day weekend, Farmer-to-Farmer volunteers share their experience working with entrepreneurs in Nigeria. The Farmer-to-Farmer (F2F) team is comprised of Craig Pearson, Fungai Mandaza, and Rachel An, who are all Masters of Global Management students at Thunderbird School of Global Management. Our team was honored with the task of developing a strategy for […]
Former Volunteer Tells All
August 30, 2017|post
For the last 26 years, Winrock has facilitated more than 5,000 volunteer assignments in 58 countries as part of the USAID John Ogonowski and Doug Bereuter Farmer-to-Farmer (F2F) program – but what does volunteering mean in a development context? Who typically volunteers with Winrock, and what do they do? Jen Snow, Winrock’s associate director of […]
Innovative Pay-For-Performance Program Rewards Farmers For Improving Water Quality
August 29, 2017|post
Winrock International is pleased to announce the publication of Pay-For-Performance Conservation: A How-To Guide, a free comprehensive guide to implementing and managing Pay-For-Performance (PFP) conservation programs. The guide is based on Winrock’s decade of experience pioneering PFP conservation, including the Milwaukee River Pay-For-Performance Project, which reduced phosphorus losses by as much as 40 percent from […]
Pay-for-Performance Conservation: A How-To Guide
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Authors: Kristin A. Fisher, PhD, Jonathan R. Winsten, PhD, Elisabeth Spratt (all of Winrock International), Ryan Anderson (Delta Institute), Ryan Smith (Delta Institute) Water quality impairments resulting, in part, from agricultural nutrient runoff have remained stubbornly difficult to solve in the United States. Pay-for-Performance conservation capitalizes on scientific and technological advances to identify cost-effective land […]
Using Wisconsin’s SnapPlus Planning Tool in Pay-for-Performance Projects
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SnapPlus is a nutrient management (NM) planning application, developed by scientists at University of Wisconsin-Madison, designed to assist farmers in the creation of NM plans and estimate phosphorus (P) loss in accordance with statewide agricultural performance standards and resource management policies. SnapPlus also incorporates the latest planning criteria and guidelines from the Wisconsin Natural Resources […]