International Research
Research and projects surrounding global food supply and environmental issues and resulting cultural implications.
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If research and innovation are to improve in Sub-Saharan Africa, graduate students must learn how to conduct quality research, data analysis, and research writing. This is the subject of the paper authored by Dr. Millicent Oyugi, Dr. Mathew Baker, Dr. Alexa Lamm, and Dr. Kevan Lamm recently published in the Journal of International Agricultural Extension…
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Research capacity is crucial to successfully completing a thesis or dissertation and obtaining a graduate degree. Unfortunately, in Sub-Saharan Africa, many students abandon or delay their degrees due to limited research and writing skills. Seeing this problem first hand when she was an instructor in Kenya, Dr. Millicent Oyugi aimed to identify the most critical…
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Many think that technology adoption, especially when it is designed to solve with the same problem, would be adopted at the same rate. Dr. Alexa Lamm and her colleagues found this wasn’t true in the case of nursery and greenhouse growers as part of the WateR3 project, funded by the USDA SCRI. In fact, growers…
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An aspiring triple Dawg at the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES), Allison Fortner was thrilled to be featured on their new digital storytelling platform, Cultivate. In this feature, Fortner shares a bit about herself and her long background and love for the University of Georgia and CAES. In the interview, Allison describes…
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Allison Fortner, a doctoral student in the Lamm Lab, just completed an eight-week international internship in Paris and on France’s Brittany Coast, where she worked as a science communicator with the Safe Seaweed Coalition, a global partnership established in 2021 to support a safe and sustainable seaweed industry. The internship fulfilled the requirements of Fortner’s International Agriculture…
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A collaborative study conducted with the African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS), researchers at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and ALEC faculty, graduate students and post docs led to being recognized for their innovative work. The study used a single instrumental case study to assess the career preparedness of youth participating in a…
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Sanders presents research using poetic analysis to communicate the social impacts of a community-based health initiative.