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-Project: Small Ruminant Health Problems-CRSP
Location: Kenya
Dates: 1990 - 1995
Total Budget: $201,570
Contract: USAID/subcontract w/ U of CA, DAN-1328-G-00-0046-00
Provide pathology support to overall CRSP effort with specific study site in Kenya. This USAID project involves ten U.S. institutions working together with partner institutions overseas. The focus of CSU's effort has been on animal health. Work on this project will be directed toward using biotechnology to make new vaccines for sheep and goats
utilizing information from SR-CRSP research in Kenya, Peru and Brazil.
Project: Egypt Water Research Center Location: Cairo, Egypt
Dates: 1988 - 1994
Contractor: USAID Project No. 263-0132 Budget: $26,200,000
The Water Research Center (WRC) Project is part of a comprehensive effort by Egypt to increase agricultural production, reduce the food production-consumption gap, and
improve the social and economic welfare of the people of Egypt. Technological,
management and research advances in irrigation will enable the Ministry of Public Works and Water Resources (PWWR) to further contribute to the increases in agricultural and food production in Egypt.
Project: Ecology of Subsistence Pastoralism Project
Location: Kenya
Dates: 1982 - 1992
Contractor: NSF; #BSR 8612109 & 8506480
Total Budget: $964,647; Follow on, $1,200,000
This project is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the South Turkana Ecosystem Project is a multidisciplinary effort of scientists from the NREL, the State University of New York at Binghampton and the University of Nairobi in Kenya.
Subsistence pastoralism is an important method of resource exploitation in many arid and semiarid regions characterized by people's dependence on their livestock products for subsistence needs. It traditionally is associated with overgrazing, resource degradation and desertification. The researchers hope to understand subsistence pastoralism's
biological productivity and the factors that control it and to document how people and their animals modify the production and stability of anecosystem.
Project: Botswana Cowpea
Location: Botswana
Dates: 1982-1989
Contractor: USAID; AID/DSAN/Xll-G-0261
Total Budget: $730,633 original; 214,913 additional
Colorado State University was a participating university in this project led by Michigan State University and was the lead university for the Botswana subproject. Project objectives included evaluation of cowpea varieties, tillage/planting practices, cultural practices, harvesting techniques, and pest control. The project also involved plant breeding improvement efforts. A germplasm collection has grown to 700 lines, about one-half of which have been evaluated in the field.
Training included two M.S. degree programs, one B.Sc., two graduate assistantships for U.S. students and four non-degree programs.
Project: Nigerian Agricultural Education, Research, and Extension
Location: Nigeria
Dates: *1964 - 1967
USAID Contract; *195,000 (if project had been completed) *2,050,600 through 1967
*Note: The total amount budgeted was 7.3 million for the duration of project
( 1964-1972) if war had not interrupted project activities.
Colorado State University's institutional development program in Nigeria began under AID sponsorship in 1964. The project in agricultural education, research, and extension was designed to provide sub-degree academic instruction. The project was prematurely terminated by the Biafran civil war. A total of 34 U.S. specialists were provided in
instruction, extension and research across a broad spectrum of animal and plant sciences, as well as social sciences.
Project: Kenya Program of Assistance at the Faculty of Veterinary Science
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Dates: 1965 - 1978
USAID Contract; 68.5 Long-term Person Years; $3,939,500
CSU and USAID officially cooperated in assisting the University of Nairobi in developing higher teaching and research capabilities in the Faculty of Veterinary Science.
Professional educators and scientists from CSU and other American universities having schools of Veterinary Medicine were assigned and dispatched to the University of Nairobi. A total of 68.5 professional man years were used as a field staff. These people assisted with planning and executing a curriculum in undergraduate Veterinary medicine and with identifying and training graduate students.
Project: Lesotho Agricultural Sector Analysis Project
Location: Maseru, Lesotho
Dates: 1976 - 1981
USAID Contract; 14 Long-term Person Years; $1,409,000
This five-year effort had as its principal objective building a functional Planning Division within the Ministry of Agriculture, Kingdom of Lesotho. Institutional development efforts
concen-trated on staff training, organizational change, and upgrading internal procedures for administration, work load planning, delegation of responsibility, personnel evaluation, etc. The three-person Planning Unit grew to a full division of 22 persons effectively planning the agricultural development of the country. In addition to the establishment of the Planning Division, the project conducted a research program which thoroughly revised the direction and strategy of long-term agricultural growth programs, as well as national policy on employment generation. CSU fielded a team of six for the effort, drawn from the disciplines of agricultural economics and development geography.
Project: Egypt Water Use and Management
Location: Cairo, Egypt Dates: 1977 - 1984
USAID Contract; 49.6 Long-term Person Years; $13,000,000
The goal of the Egypt Water Use and Management Project was to improve the social and economic well-being of the small farmer in Egypt through the development and
implementation of improved irrigation management in conjunction with improved
agronomic practices. This goal was to be met by utilizing the CSU developed on-farm water management improvement program of 1) identifying irrigation methods, agronomic practices and delivery system maintenance and operation constraints to increase crop production; 2) research to determine farmer and government acceptable solutions to the identified problems; and 3) field test a package of improvements that could be
implemented on a large scale. The project was to accomplish its goals by working
on-farm with small farmers in three rural areas of Egypt that were representative of three different cropping and social economic conditions in the "old lands."
The major constraints were identified. Management and optimal delivery of water to the farmer was developed through field testing of numerous alternative technologies. Optimal irrigation practices were developed and successfully introduced to the farmers in each of the areas. These practices included improved crop management, irrigation scheduling, the design and use of improved basin, border and furrow irrigation with precision land leveling. The project made four general recommendations for irrigation improvement of the "old lands" of Egypt. These four recommendations have been adopted by the Ministry of Irrigation and the Government of Egypt to be implemented in a National Irrigation
Improvement Program. AID is funding a 130,000 acre project for this program to test the finding of this project.
advanced graduate work in their disciplines of sociology, economics, agronomy and engineering. In addition, 30 other professionals were given one semester of short course training in their discipline. As a result of this, four Egyptian professionals obtained their Ph.D. degrees during the life of the project and seven Egyptian professionals received their M.S. degrees. All told, about 105 Egyptian professionals were given training either in the United States or in Egypt in on-farm water management and irrigation delivery system improvement. In addition, as a result of the project, two Americans received Ph.D.
degrees and three non-Egyptians received M.S. degrees. Also nine American students received valuable field experience working in Egypt on the project.
Project: Gambian Mixed Farming and Resource Management Project
Location: Banjul, The Gambia
Dates: 1981 - 1986
Long-term Person Years: 52.75
Contractor: USAID - Contract # AID-635-0203
Total Budget: $4,987,653
The project purpose was to assist the cooperating country to develop research, extension and training programs leading to better integration of crop and livestock enterprises within the Gambian agricultural sector, thus resulting in increased incomes to rural farm families. Emphasis was on maintaining ecologically sound resource management technologies which would result in sustained long-run yield and productivity increases. The team consisted of 8 long-term faculty members. In addition to technical assistance to the government in designing and constructing facilities, procurement of commodities, and training of host-country personnel in both long-term and short-term instructional programs.
Project: Egypt Irrigation Improvement Project
Location: Egypt
Dates: July 1985 - 1991
Contractor: CI DI Al D contract 263-0132-C-5060-00
Total Budget: $6,000,000
The purpose of the project was to improve the operating efficiency of the total irrigation system and strengthen the Ministry of Irrigation's (MO!) operation, maintenance, research and planning capabilities.
The project also helped the Ministry of Irrigation (MO!) implement the Egyptian Cabinet approved National Irrigation Improvement Program (NllP) by developing an
implementation process to improve utilization of water for agriculture on a large scale; and by developing the staff for implementation of this National Irrigation Improvement Program.
The project increased the institutional capacity of the Water Research Center (MO!) to conduct research and development to increase the knowledge base needed to improve
the operating efficiency of the total irrigation system.
Operating efficiency means controlling the flow of irrigation water in a way to assure that water for crop production reaches farmers when it is needed, at the time it is needed and in the amounts required. It means that no water is wasted by unproductive flows from the irrigation systems into the drainage system, that no excess availability encourages farmers to over-irrigate and thus contribute to the deterioration of the land through water logging and salinity associated with rising watertables, and that no fields are short of the water they need.
Project: Malawi Agricultural Research & Extension (MARE)
Dates: 1986 - 1990
Contractor: USAID/Oregon State Subcontract through CID 612-0215-C-00-6006-00
Total Budget: $558,986
Assisted Oregon State University through CID by providing technical assistance in extension communications and agronomy.
Project: Personal Services of Hansen
Location: Makindu, Kenya
Dates: 1983 - 1984
Winrock International Contract; $151,109
Richard Hansen, range science, directed and conducted research primarily on diet and competition of domestic and wild animals. He served at the Koboko Range Research Station in Makindu, Kenya, from January to December 1984. Hansen was named deputy chief of party of the Winrock International team at Koboko and was involved with research projects at Marsabit in Northern Kenya.
Others from CSU who worked on the project are Joe Trlica, range science; Dave Swift, Christine Proctor-Gregg and Paul Bovitz of the NREL; and Elizabeth Migongo, a Kenyan graduate student.
Project: Egypt National Agricultural Research Project (NARP) Dates: 1987 - 1992
Contractor: USAID, U. of AZ subcontract through CID AID 263-0152
Total Budget: $545,000
Provided training coordinator (Coleen Brown) and TDY assistance to Ministry of Agriculture.
