Session #22 Ticket Out Responses

What are you curious about?

1.Would ECHO be interested in partnering with Agripreneurs of Haiti?

•  Contact and speak personally to our Guest Speaker

2.What is the different between International Ag and International Horticulture?

• Contact our Guest Speaker and learn more about his work

3.Technologies use at the resource center for seed saving?

•  More information -check this link

4.How well have small farm resource centers worked in various situations?

• Stories of different project around the world-ECHO Blog
• Refer reading assign for session #22-MEAS

5.The diverse environment in India and the variety of crops they can grow

• Agriculture in India-Check this link

6.Extension program in India

•  Refer readings assign by guest speaker for session #22

What did you learn?
1. Different approaches to teach in developing nations
2. Farmers use same seeds repetitively
3.Agriculture extension in poor areas
4.The importance of leaders role in getting people to adapt new ideas
5.About India and SFRC model
6.USAID project limitation: Time & Relationship
7.Pro & Cons of the Green Revolution in India
8.The brilliant idea of the resource center
9. The SFRC extension model focuses on the local farmers and teaching through on and off center demonstration and building relationship in the community

What do you want to learn more about?

1.Female farmers and extension program for women farmers in India

•   Article 1: MEAS Case Study in India-link
•  Article 2: Improving women farmers' access to extension services- Link

2. How to get involve in seed saving or micro finance career

• ECHO career opportunities-check this link

3.In what region are the resource center created in future

• learn more about ECHO center -link

4.MESA

• MEAS USAID- Website

5. Website presented in the presentation

• echonet.org
• http://www.meas-extension.org/

Session #9 Ticket Out Responses

What are you curious about?

1. What about the smallholder Farmers in more developed country?

• Agriculture in develop countries -1) Article  2) Article

2. "Rice Advice"

• Rice Advise Videos

3. About different success stories from MEAS projects

• MEAS Case Studies

4.Some of the incentives programs use to get enough volunteers

• INCENTIVE SYSTEMS:  INCENTIVES, MOTIVATION, AND DEVELOPMENT PERFORMANCE- Article

5.Farmers to Farmers program

•  Class session # 12 (Feb 20)

6.  Large farm is not reduce poverty as effectively?

• Interesting article about Urban Bias:  Article

What did you learn?

1. Small holder subsistence farms are more and/or just as effective and efficient as large farms

2.Barriers to smallholders are common across borders

3.Smallholder farmers and barriers to develop agriculture

4. Women Farmers use cell phone in Kenya

5.There are a lot of variables that arise when trying to assist developing countries with agriculture

6. Diverse case studies of program working to achieve food security in developing countries

7.Even when people have access to certain resources (ie. good infrastructure) thre are so many other factors that can make developing agriculture difficult

8.More about the different MEAS case studies that exist

9. What smallholders farmers is actually is

10.Farmers to farmers is a program with a good idea but brings lots questions about how well it works

11. Water need and how people in developing nations get water


What do you want to learn more about?

1. Issues developing nations are facing with other agriculture area( livestock)?

•  MEAS Case Studies has a lot of good examples

2. How barriers to smallholders farmers be overcome

• No # 1- Education

3.Role of peace corp volunteers

•  Peace corp volunteers Stories

4. Are there anything other than MEAS project that accomplish similar goal

• innoVATE

5. Are program such as the one in the case study impacting countries as a whole? hunger , poverty?

• Yes

6.How to develop nations economically

• Millennium Development Goals

7.Data on smallholders who gained more access thing such as credit/land?

    Examples of organization actively involve is helping smallholder farmers:  

• Land O’Lakes, Inc. is a national, farmer-owned food and agricultural cooperative with annual sales of nearly $13 billion.  Land O'Lakes International Development has improved the quality of life for millions of people in 76 nations through more than 275 projects worldwide that are generating economic growth, improving health and nutrition, and alleviate poverty by facilitating market-driven business solutions.
•  Unilever Global: Our goal is to engage with at least 500,000 smallholder farmers in our supply network. We will help them improve their agricultural practices and thus enable them to become more competitive. By doing so we will improve the quality of their livelihoods.

Questions to think about as you read Pingali's speech

As part of your reading for Tuesday's class  we ask you to read a speech by Prabhu Pingali titled "Who is the Smallholder Farmer?" from the 2010 Borlaug Dialogue hosted by the World Food Prize.  You can either read the speech, or watch this video of it on Youtube (it isn't the best quality). 

Here are a few questions to think about as you read:

1. Pingali mentions several misconceptions about the role of smallholder famers.  What are they?   Are there others you can think of?
2. What are the conditions to enhancing smallholder productivity that Pingali notes in his speech.  Can you think of others?               
3. Based on what we’ve studied previously in this class, why is it important to care about smallholder farmers? 

Reading #11b is optional, but I encourage you to at least page through this publication.  It highlights many current key issues related to smallholder farmers.  Finally, we ask you to read one MEAS case study (reading #12).

The World Food Prize hosts an annual event called the Borlaug Dialogue, presented in honor and memory of Norman Borlaug.  This is an event that brings together stakeholders from all walks of life from CEOs of multi-national companies to smallholder farmers from Africa to discuss issues related to food security and international development.  I mention this event specifically because each year two scholarships to attend the event are offered to students enrolled in the INTAG minor.  If you'd like to learn more about the event, I refer you to your classmate Jenna, who has attended in the past and worked with the World Food Prize organization.  I'm also happy to let you know more details about the event and the INTAG scholarship.