IPM CRSP Training Programs:
Long-Term Training
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Long-term training refers to supporting host country nationals in getting graduate degrees in areas related to IPM. These areas include: agricultural economics, crop science, entomology, horticulture, plant biotechnology, plant pathology, plant science, and plant virology. Investing in people in this way means that IPM becomes integrated into a country on a large scale at a variety of levels: The people that the IPM CRSP supports in this fashion become government officials responsible for setting and implementing agricultural policy; they become professors themselves who teach and perform research; and they serve on international agricultural bodies. In this way, IPM CRSP carries out its charge to effect lasting change for the long haul. |
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Graduate student Atanu Rakshit interviews farmers in Bangladesh. |
Since 2004, the IPM CRSP has trained 37 graduate students from 17 countries. Since 1993, over Phases I and II of the IPM CRSP, the program has trained 100 grad students.
All IPM CRSP degree training is closely linked to research activities and aligned with project objectives. It engages long term degree training to strengthen the technical skills of research, teaching and extension faculty from U.S. and host country universities, national agricultural research institutions, NGOs and other relevant organizations. While developing a global knowledge base in U.S. universities, it also addresses specific host country IPM questions, opportunities and constraints. The strength of IPM CRSP’s training program is the integration of training with long-term research carried out by the researchers based at the U.S. and host country universities.
Since long-term training is an integral part of the research program, an IPM CRSP researcher usually finds other sources of leveraged funds to partially support trainees.
During Year Two (2005-2006) of
Phase III of the IPM CRSP:
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Six U.S. universities and 9 host country universities provided long-term training for 37 graduate students (18 Ph.D. and 19 M.S.) and 5 undergraduate students associated with IPM CRSP activities.
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Of these 42 students, 37 are from developing countries and 5 from the United States.
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Twenty-eight are men and 14 are women.
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Their specializations in the graduate program are Agricultural Economics - 12, Crop Science/ Crop Protection - 5, Entomology - 5, Horticulture - 4, Plant Breeding -1, Plant Biotechnology -1, Plant Pathology -6, Plant Science - 2, and Plant Virology - 1.
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The number of trainees trained by regions is: Southeast Asia – 5, South Asia – 10, East Africa – 14, West Africa – 1, Eastern Europe – 1, Latin America and the Caribbean – 6 and USA – 5.
The list of long term training participants can be
downloaded here:
Long-Term Degree Training Participants, FY 2007 (pdf) |
