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From: Thoric Cederstrom <Thoric@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU>
Subject: Farmer-to-Farmer Program Needs Volunteers
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Dear Colleague,

I enjoyed your website and wanted to ask your help in getting
this notice out to potentially interested plant scientists.  The
Farmer-to-Farmer Program is recruiting volunteers for its program
activities in Ethiopia. The following announcement summarizes our
program.  I would appreciate your suggestions on how we can
publicize our activities and our volunteer needs. We are
particularly interested in reaching retired and semi-retired
people who tend to have more time for volunteer activities.  Your
help is most appreciated!

Thoric Cederstrom


**  U.S. Agricultural Experts Required  **

The Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University
of Arizona is recruiting a team of five volunteers to visit
Ethiopia for 8 weeks beginning June 1 of this year.  The team
will be working under the auspices of the Farmer-to-Farmer
Program administered in Ethiopia by Volunteers in Overseas
Cooperative Assistance (VOCA).  The team is to include the
following 5 speciality areas:  Agricultural University
Eucator/Team Leader; Agricultural Economist;  Animal Science
Specialist;  Agricultural Statistician;  and Plant Science
Specialist.

Volunteers are preferred who have a PhD with significant field
experience. They also need to be in excellent health, able to
travel extensively under rugged rural conditions.  The team will
be responsible for the following activities:

(1)  Conducting an assessment of agricultural training needs for
men and women in major food producing areas in Ethiopia;

(2)  Developing a general outline of curricula for the Faculty of
Agriculture at Alemaya University of Agriculture in Ethiopia,
based on results of the training needs assessment;

(3)  Preparing a project proposal for donor funding to improve
the teaching and research facilities of Alemaya University
including upgrading of the teaching and research staff.

In accordance with the provisions of the Farmer-to-Farmer (FtF)
Program, no salaries will be offered, but sponsors will cover all
trip and project related expenses.

While the above assignments are priority for us, the project will
be on-going in Ethiopia and in Eritrea, and we are interested in
building up our data bank of potential volunteers.  Over the next
5 years, we will need experts in sustainable land management,
cooperative and agribusiness development, watershed and rangeland
management, dryland forestry, irrigation technology and water
catchment systems.  Scopes of work, and expected qualifications,
will be developed for these specialty areas as they are
identified by in-country personnel.

The FtF Program has been a winner of the Presidential Hunger
Award, and has a  widespread reputation among members of Capitol
Hill, previous volunteers, and projects who have received
assistance as being a highly efficient and cost effective form of
foreign assistance.

If you are interested or know of someone who may be interested,
please contact:

Kathleen Mac. Thompson
Farmer-to-Farmer Program
800 E. University Blvd, Suite 110
The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona  85721
Phone:  (520) 622-5546
FAX:  (520) 798-3066
email:  kathleet@ccit.arizona.edu




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