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SANREM CRSP promotes stakeholder empowerment and improved livelihoods through knowledge-based sustainable agriculture and natural resource management systems. The program is managed by the Office of International Research, Education, and Development at Virginia Tech.

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Reaching out with a teaching tool

Stripe rust on wheat
Teaching modules help researchers track progress of plant disease.

Not even the best teacher can reach students effectively without good course materials, a limitation at universities in parts of the developing world. Online training modules developed by SANREM CRSP Researcher Karen Garrett are addressing this need in the area of plant disease.

The modules are available free to anyone with internet access. Published in December and January, they are designed to teach principles of modeling: for instance, predicting the course of plant disease epidemics such as stripe rust in wheat (right). Such models could help policymakers determine how climate change is likely to affect a particular disease.

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