Participating CG Centers

• IFPRI (6)
• ILRI (7)
• CIAT (4)
• ICRAF (4)
• ICRISAT (3)
• CIMMYT (2)
• IITA (5)
• TSBF-CIAT (4)
• CIFOR
• INIBAP
• IPGRI
• WARDA
• World Fish (2)
  

Participating US Institutions

• Cornell University (8)
• Michigan State University (4)
• University of Hawaii (3)
• Iowa State University (3)
• Penn State University (2)
• Texas A&M University (2)
• University of Florida (2)
• University of Illinois (2)
• George Mason University (2)
  
• Oklahoma State University
• Purdue University (3)
  
• University of California, Davis (2)
• University of Connecticut
• University of Georgia
  
• University of Iowa
• University of Minnesota
• University of Vermont
• University of Arizona
• North Carolina State University
  

Countries Represented

• Burundi
• Cape Verde
• Dem. Rep. of the Congo
  
• Ethiopia
• Ghana (2)
  
• Ivory Coast (2)
• Kenya (10)
• Malawi
• Mali (2)
• Namibia
• Niger
• Nigeria (4)
  
• Sierra Leone
• South Africa
• Tanzania (3)
  
• Thailand
  
• Uganda (4)
• Zimbabwe (2)
• Philippines
• Mexico
  

Nikki Kohly

South African, Nikki Kohly is a postgraduate student in the Department of Education at Rhodes University in South Africa. Through the fellowship, Ms. Kohly is integrating the community-based agricultural research and development work by the World Agroforestry Centre and other CGIAR centers with the environmental education work being conducted at Rhodes and Cornell Universities. The objectives of her research are to 1) explore the role of agriculturally based school-community links in facilitating environmental learning and action in southern Africa and the US, and 2) develop guidelines to support agriculturally-based environmental learning that promotes social change and sustainability. Dr. Marianne Krasny at Cornell University and Dr. Festus Akinnifesi at the World Agroforestry Centre, SADC-ICRAF in Malawi are mentoring Ms. Kohly. During her fellowship, she also spent a semester at Cornell University and visited the World Agroforestry Centre. Ms. Kohly also conducted fieldwork in New York City, Malawi and Zambia.

Maction Katundu Komwa

Malawian, Maction Katundu Komwa is enrolled in the PhD program at George Mason University for Environmental Science and Policy. His research will develop a multi-agent based model in order to understand the effects of mortality and morbidity from HIV/AIDS on farm households, cropping patterns, and agricultural production in southeast Uganda. The model is designed to address a series of questions: 1) Can labor shortages at the household level be mitigated through interactions with other households and communities? 2) How do land tenure patterns and land ownership dynamics associated with HIV/AIDS affect the welfare of individual households and the distribution of wealth between households? 3) What are the effects of an individual living with HIV/AIDS on the health and nutritional status of the person with AIDS and other members of HIV/AIDS affected rural households? Dr. Dawn Parker at George Mason University and Dr. Todd Benson at International Food Policy and Research Insitute are mentoring Mr. Komwa. During his fellowship he will be conducting fieldwork in Uganda and Malawi under the supervision of his IFPRI mentor.

Pauline Nhamo

Zimbabwean, Pauline Nhamo, is enrolled in the PhD program at University of California, Davis in the department of Plant Sciences. Ms. Nhamo is researching the combination of organic and mineral nutrient resource results in improved synchrony and carbon sequestration by affecting carbon and nitrogen stabilization through aggregate formation, followed by carbon and nitrogen release during aggregate breakdown. The objectives of her research are to determine 1) how organic resource (OR) plus mineral resource combinations alter aggregate turnover and mineralization-immobilization patterns of nitrogen; 2) the influence of the quality of the OR on these processes; and 3) the role of soil texture, mineralogy and climate on these processes. Dr. Johan Six at University of California, Davis and Dr. Bernard Vanlauwe at TSBF-CIAT are mentoring Ms. Nhamo. During her fellowship she will be conducting her fieldwork in Kenya under the supervision of her TSBF-CIAT mentor.