The MOIST Group at Cornell University
Management of Organic Inputs in Soils of the Tropics

Affiliated with the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD)


MOIST / CAWG Seminar Series
- Cover Crops, Agroforesty and Managed Fallows-
2000 Spring and Fall Semesters

Sponsored by MOIST and the Cornell Agroforesty Working Group

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•November 29
Facilitating agroforestry: The co-evolution of practice and institutions in New York State and northeastern North America
—Louise Buck, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University

•November 15
Mechanism involved in the suppression of the northern root-knot nematode with a green manure of sudangrass
—George Abawi, Professer, Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University

•November 8
Lessons from the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme's watershed management initiatives in India
-Apoorva Oza, Aga Khan Rural support Programme, India

•November 1
Population, conservation and fallow management in Honduras
—Max Pfeffer; Professor, Department of Rural Sociology, Cornell University

•Oct 25
Fallows, agroforestry systems and food security in Mali
—Rainer Asse, graduate student in the Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University

•Oct 18
Vegetative propagation strategies of tropical agroforestry trees in Madagascar
—Ben Neimark, graduate student, Department of Horticulture, Cornell Univeristy

•Oct 11
The roles of livestock, ethnoveterinarian medicinal plants and climate in managing fallows in South Africa
—Janet Getchell, MPS student, International Agriculture and Rural Development, Cornell University

•Oct 4
Fallow management issues in Guatemala
—Hannah Wittman, graduate student, Department of Rural Sociology, Cornell University
and Mark Johnson, graduate student, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Cornell University

•Sept 27
Measuring the impact of agroforestry development projects in eastern Indonesia
—Stefan Wodicka, World Neighbors Southeast Asia Representative

•Sept 20
"Frijol tapado", a traditional slash-mulch system in the Americas
—HD Thurston, Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University

•Sept 13
Farmer experimentation with green manure cover crops in the Dominican Republic
-Sheryl Swink, Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development

•Sept 6
Agroforestry for mulch-based systems for rehabiitation of degraded lands in the Amazon
—Erick Fernandes, Assistant Professor, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University

April 26
The Effect of Government Policies on Forest Farming in Riung, Flores, Indonesia
—Ilya Moeliono, MPS student in international development, Cornell University

• April 19
A Survey of Agroforestry and Green Manure/Cover Crops in Paraguay
—Hannah Wittman, coordinator of the Committee on United States/Latin American Relations
—Mark Johnson, MS/PhD student in theDepartment of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Cornell University

April 12
Soil Conservation Practices Promoted by NGOs and Used by Producers in Copan, Honduras
—John Debiec, MPS student in international agriculture and rural development, Cornell University

March 29
Rattan Gardens: A Fallow Management System of the Dayak Benuaq of East Kalimantan, Indonesia
—Crissy Guerrero, MPS student in international development, Cornell University

March 29
Beyond Participatory Technology Development, Farmer Field Schools, and Participatory Plant Breeding: Stretching the Scale, Widening the Stakeholder Group
—Janice Jiggins, professor, Human Ecology, Department of Rural Development Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; and Distinguished Lecturer, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University

March 15
Water and Energy Partitioning in Silvopastoral Systems
—Charles Feldhake, soil scientist with the USDA's Agriculture Research Service

• March 8
Green Manure/Cover Crops in West Africa: Constraints and Research Needs
—Jean Sogbedji, postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University

• March 1
Designing a Marketing and Domestication Framework for Indigenous Priority Medicinal Trees in the Miombo Ecozone of Tanzania
—Garry Ford, visiting scientist in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University

February 16
Adoption of No-Till by Small Farmers in Paraguay
—Eduardo Tessari, master's candidate in the Department of Agricultural, Resource and Managerial Economics, Cornell University

• February 9
From Extension Forester to Agroforester: The Development of Agroforestry at Cornell
—Jim Lassoie, professor of forest science and chair of the Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University

February 2
Evaluation of Mucuna and Dolichos as Sources of Green Manures, Cover Crops and Forages in a Semiarid Tropical Region of Mexico
—Luis Fregoso-Tirado, PhD candidate in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University

January 26
Shifting Cultivation in Northern Democratic Republic of Congo:Traditional Crop and Fallow Management Practices
—Doug Brown, MS/PhD student in the Department of Agricultural, Resource and Managerial Economics, Cornell University


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