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Training Course Agricultural Biotechnology Short Course: This course was held at the Michigan State University, September 10 - 21, 2012. BRS provided an overview of APHIS regulatory policy on the first day of this two week course which was conducted in collaboration with USDA-FAS. The FAS-sponsored students, which made up about half of the class, are part of the Cochran Fellowship Program and mainly came from Latin America. The remaining students were from Sub-Sahara Africa and Southeast Asia. During the conclusion of this short course in Washington DC, BRS also represented APHIS on a panel of regulators. BRS expects to participate in this short course again in 2013.
United States - Live Bird Marketing System This course is intended to prepare its participants to properly evaluate and define LBMS stakeholder activity and compliance with applicable state laws, program standards, and licensing requirements through consistent audit and evaluation of paper records. Participants will also receive training on how to identify and evaluate biosecurity and disease risks in the auction and flea market segments of the LBMS, proper bird restraint, swabbing, and euthanasia techniques.
Administrative Cost of Food Aid under Food For Education Program Administrative Cost of Food Aid under Food For Education Program - through Catholic Relief Services
High-Containment Laboratory Practices and Techniques Seminar The High Containment Laboratory Practices and Techniques seminar at Kansas State University will equip participants from multiple countries with the fundamental background to safely participate in high containment laboratory activities and develop practices and techniques promoting biosafety, biosecurity, and biocontainment in a research laboratory or academic setting. It aims to develop hands-on techniques as well as foster participant analytical skills using problem based learning, reviewing agents and toxins, research, guidelines, and rationales that dictate high containment laboratory practices. Participants will develop an understanding of standard microbiological practices and will be introduced to principles and techniques required to work safely and securely with biohazards materials in BSL-3 laboratories. They will explore biological risk groups and agent characteristics to conduct initial and ongoing risk assessments. Based on the risk assessment they will determine which biological safety level, practice, and technique is best suited for the planned laboratory and research activities. Participants will practice hands-on skills and techniques in a training laboratory to acquire and reinforce their own positive work practices while learning to identify and encourage safe and secure practices in others. Activities will consist of lecture, classroom discussion, individual and group activities, and hands-on skills development.
SILVACARBON RESEARCH: DEGRADATION DUKE To extend Forest Service efforts to improve forest policies and practices internationally. International Technical Exchange Support
Administrative Cost of Food Aid under Food For Education Program Administrative Cost of Food Aid under Food For Education Program - through Land-O-Lakes International
Administrative Cost of Food Aid under Food For Education Program Administrative Cost of Food Aid under Food For Education Program - through Project Concern International
International Forestry Programs MONITORING REGIONAL LAND USE CHANGE FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES AND BETTERMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT
Interagency Agreement Betweent he Foreign Agrigultural Service, Department of Agriculturale and the Bureau of International Security and Non-Proliferation, Department of State: Biosecurity Engagement Program Key objectives are to implement projects that advance 1) animal health laboratory biosafety management; 2) animalhealth laboratory diagnostic capacity, and 3) engage animal health scientists and provide global USDA expertise.
FSIS Food Defense In an effort to address the topic of food defense in the FSIS executed a series of food defense awareness workshops. The workshops raised awareness of the importance of protecting the food supply chain against intentional contamination and provided voluntary low cost/no-cost approaches to protect the safety and integrity of international food and agricultural trade.
International Forestry Programs COOPERATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN USFS AND INTERPOL FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES AND BETTERMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT
International Forestry Programs SILVACARBON - BLENDING INFORMATION FROM OPTICAL AND RADAR SENSORS FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES
Borlaug Fellowship Program The University of Missouri shall provide the following to coordinate the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) Borlaug Fellowship Program (BFP) World Food Prize (WFP) Event during the Norman E. Borlaug International Symposium in Des Moines, Iowa. Deliverable: BFP WFP Event.Borlaug Fellowship
IMPERILED SPECIES MODELING FOR CONSERVATION PLANNING IMPERILED SPECIES MODELING FOR CONSERVATION PLANNING
SILVACARBON: ECUADOR INTENSIVE MONITORING SITE SILVACARBON: ECUADOR INTENSIVE MONITORING SITE
SILVACARBON RESEARCH: UMD REPUBLIC OF CONGO GRANT SILVACARBON RESEARCH: UMD REPUBLIC OF CONGO GRANT
Field Study - Copenhagen: the Mothers Infants and Lactation Quality (MILQ) Project Breast milk is recommended as the sole source of nutrients for infants during the first 180 days postpartum and as an important source for the next 200 days, but we lack valid information on the nutrient content of human milk, and especially on its micronutrient (MN) content, and there are no Reference Values (RVs). Consequently we are basing recommended nutrient intakes of infants, young children and lactating women on many unvalidated and incorrect estimates of milk MN concentrations and have no benchmarks against which to evaluate breast milk quality in different populations, or the need for or effects of nutrient interventions on breast milk micronutrients. The limited existing evidence suggests that many vitamins and some minerals may be low in the milk of undernourished women. The overall objective of this research is to develop RVs for micronutrients in human milk, based on the range of nutrient concentrations in samples that we will obtain from well-nourished but unsupplemented lactating women in four countries. Maternal plasma will also be collected to verify the adequacy of maternal micronutrient status and to describe the relationships between maternal status and milk micronutrient concentrations. Infant plasma will be analyzed to determine the effects of breast milk micronutrient concentrations on infant status. These objectives will be facilitated by our recent validation of methods for milk micronutrient analysis, and our ability to measure several vitamins simultaneously by mass spectrometry.
International Forestry Programs SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY IN ALTAI: COMMUNITY AND POLICY ENGAGEMENT TO COMBAT IL FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES
Caribbean - Region Diagnostic Training, characterization of White Fly Biotypes Ms. Kenia Campo, UWI, Entomology Research and Phd candidate was funded to travel to the University of Arizona to complete her training in the molecular analysis and bio typing of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae). Bemisia tabaci is a species complex with global distribution and extensive genetic diversity. It causes excessive crop losses through directly feeding and transmission of plant viruses. The main tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world, has been a major challenge to agricultural scientists in both developing and industrialized nations. In the late 1980s, tomato producing areas in Latin America and across the tropics began to suffer from high incidences of whitefly-borne begomoviruses with devastating economic consequences. The training at the University of Arizona, therefore involved DNA isolation from whiteflies, Polymerase chain reaction of mtCOI gene, cloning of PCR products, DNA sequencing, Sequence assembly, alignment, phylogenetic analysis and procurement of reading literature on whitefly taxonomy with B. tabaci emphasis.
ANDEAN LANDSCAPE AND WATERSHED RESTORATION ANDEAN LANDSCAPE AND WATERSHED RESTORATION
BUILDING MANAGERIAL CAPACITY ON PUBLIC USE PLANNING BUILDING MANAGERIAL CAPACITY ON PUBLIC USE PLANNING
Assistance for Europre, Eurasia Central Asia (AEECA) Funds for USDA USDA's AEECA-funded programs increase economic opportunities for rural communities and promote trade capacity through the assistance to public and private agribusiness and marketing institutions. USDA collaborates with local counterparts to implement sustainable programs to assist in the development of market institutions, and promote the adoption of science and market based policies. The program funds the implemebtaion of technical asistance programs in Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, and Serbia, the Faculty Exchange Program in Ukraine, and the Cochran Fellowship Programs thoughout the region.
INTERNATIONAL SOLID WOOD PACKAGING STRATEGIC RISK REDUCTION INTERNATIONAL SOLID WOOD PACKAGING STRATEGIC RISK REDUCTION
Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research PROTEIN-BASED THERMOTOLERANCE MARKERS FOR SUSTAINABLE LEGUME PROTEIN PRODUCTION - THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO IDENTIFY PHOSPHOPROTEOMIC MARKERS THAT ARE LINKED TO TEMPERATURE STRESS TOLERANCE IN SOYBEAN.
Emergency Poultry Disease and Regionalization 2020 The Emergency Poultry Disease Response and Policy (EPDRP) International Symposium will train participants from a variety of countries in the principle steps in responding to an emergency poultry disease outbreak, including biosecurity, surveillance, quarantine, depopulation, disposal, and cleaning and disinfection. This intensive eight (8) day program, will be held at the University of Delaware's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources in Newark, Delaware. The symposium will cover: OIE reportable poultry diseases including avian influenza virus, surveillance, biosecurity, outbreak response and control, incident command structures, protecting the responder, depopulation, disposal, composting, and decontamination. The symposium presents and utilizes the Delaware model, which emphasizes close cooperation between government, industry and educational institutions to manage disease outbreaks utilizing best management practices and technologies related to controlling avian influenza and other catastrophic disease outbreaks.
Wildlife Disease Monitoring and Management Course The Wildlife Disease Monitoring and Management Course combined classroom sessions led by subject matter experts with operational experience, including laboratory-based and field exercises where participants can apply their classroom learning in a live setting under subject matter expert supervision. The course was designed to highlight the connection between Wildlife Disease Monitoring and Management concepts and the applied field techniques used to implement these concepts. The course highlighted highly contagious animal diseases and transboundary animal diseases such as African swine fever, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) and foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), among others, which continue to impact communities around the world. Biosafety and biosecurity protocols were a key component of the course, including review of the National Wildlife Research Center facility to demonstrate containment and management criteria for facilities that work with zoonotic pathogens and use of personal protective equipment.
HQ Travel for Emergency Poultry Disease Response Course APHIS sponsored an Emergency Poultry Disease Response course, an intensive five (5) day program taught in English. The course consisted of a mixture of seminar, discussions, and hands-on technology demonstrations, covering: OIE reportable poultry diseases including avian influenza virus; surveillance, biosecurity, outbreak response and control, incident command structures; protecting the responder; and depopulation, disposal, composting, and decontamination. The training program presented and utilized the Delaware model, which emphasized close cooperation between government, industry and educational institutions to manage disease outbreaks utilizing best management practices and technologies related to controlling avian influenza and other catastrophic disease outbreaks.
Technical Services in the areas of donor engagement, science and technology, and program support for the Bureau for Policy, Planning, and Learning. Services Provided: Under this PASA, USDA FAS Office of Capacity Building and Development will provide technical staff to assist USAID's Office of Donor Engagement, Office of Science and Technology, and the Office of the Assistant DIrector to carry out their technical leadership in food security; climate change; donor engagement and outreach; policy formulation and implementation; program planning and management; monitoring and evaluation; and science, technology and innovation. OCBD will also provide administrative support to the PASA technical staff so that they can effectively carry out their tasks in support of USAID.
New Task Order Development The purpose of this task order is to avoid Ant deficiency Act violations by having a reserve of money available for USDA to charge staff time and other MCC-related expenses that accrue in the time before a specific task order is signed to allocate funding for that purpose. In general, USDA staff charge time to this account while working on task order development for MCC. This includes budget drafting, editing and disseminating a scope of work, and meeting with MCC staff as appropriate. This task order also covers USDA time spent on more general MCC program tasks that relate to the whole interagency agreement rather than to any specific task order.
Biological Engagement Program (BEP); Defense Threat Reduction (DOD) Veterinary Epidemiology Course, CEAH - This course, in collaboration with Colorado State University, is designed to provide veterinarians with basic skills and concepts in epidemiology with an emphasis on the role of this discipline in national animal health programs. An emphasis on highly contagious animal diseases and important transboundary diseases such as highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) and Foot and Mouth Disease which continue to be significant threats to animal health in regions around the world. The FY 2012 course had 24 participants from various developing countries
Administrative Cost of Food Aid under Food For Progress Title I, Commodity Credit Corporation Purchase Program Administrative Cost of Food Aid under Food For Progress Title I, Commodity Credit Corporation Purchase Program - through Africare
RESEARCH JOINT VENTURE AND COST REIMBURSABLE AGREEMENTS EXPANDED RESEARCH TO DEFINE AND VALIDATE A CR4 MARKER FOR LIMBER PINE (VICTORIA, BC)
Administrative Cost of Food Aid under Food For Education Program Administrative Cost of Food Aid under Food For Education Program - through International Partner Human Development
Administrative Cost of Food Aid under Food For Progress Title I, Commodity Credit Corporation Purchase Program Administrative Cost of Food Aid under Food For Progress Title I, Commodity Credit Corporation Purchase Program - through Small Enterprise Assistance Funds
Interagency Agreement Betweent he Foreign Agrigultural Service, Department of Agriculturale and the Bureau of International Security and Non-Proliferation, Department of State: Biosecurity Engagement Program, Chemical Security Engagement Program Deliverables include: International training courses in animal health/biosecurity, in-country scholarship programs and pesticide risk reduction activities.
INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL EXCHANGE SUPPORT To extend Forest Service efforts to improve forest policies and practices internationally, address climate change, conserve and protect critical global forest environments and resources, and improve the lives of forest-dependent peoples by awarding grants to and entering into cooperative agreements with nonprofit organizations, multilateral organizations, and other individuals, organizations, institutions, and governments engaged in forest conservation and management.
Feed the Future Initiative and other food security initiatives (Borlaug Fellowship Program) The Borlaug Fellowship Program promotes food security and economic growth by providing training and collaborative research opportunities to fellows from developing and middle-income countries.
Biosecurity Engagement Program (BEP) On November 12, 2012 APHIS Bangkok attended the opening ceremony of the training which was funded through the Dept. of State Biological Engagement Program. There were 15 participants from 14 countries including Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, Egypt, Mongolia, Ethiopia, Senegal, Samoa and Suriname. The instructors were from CU, Department of Livestock Development, Ministry of Public Health, US-CDC and US Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (AFRIMS).
International Forestry Programs DEVELOPMENT OF FOREST MANAGEMENT TOOLS FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES AND BETTERMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT
CARE SUSTAINABLE LIVLIHOODS OKNP-STEWARD CARE SUSTAINABLE LIVLIHOODS OKNP-STEWARD
BIOCONTROL OF RUBUS AND HEDYCHIUM INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE IN SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Emergency Poultry Disease Response and Regionalization Symposium and Veterinary Diagnostic Quality Laboratory Assurance (VDLQA) Course The Emergency Poultry Disease Response and Regionalization (EPDRR) Symposium is designed to assist participants in understanding the elements of successfully planning for and responding to a poultry disease outbreak, including state/regional and national policies, dealing with live bird markets/backyard flocks, and incident command structure. The VDLQA course is designed to provide veterinary laboratory and quality assurance professionals with skills that include direct involvement with laboratory quality assurance procedures, laboratory diagnostics, and biosecurity. The course will allso incude modules related to laboratory management structure, and surveillance of wild birds and commercial poultry.
Administrative Cost of Food Aid under Food For Progress Title I, Commodity Credit Corporation Purchase Program Administrative Cost of Food Aid under Food For Progress Title I, Commodity Credit Corporation Purchase Program - through National Cooperative Business Associati
Wildlife Disease Monitoring and Management Course From May 21-28, The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), International Technical and Regulatory Capacity Building (ITRCB) Center coordinated with Colorado State University and APHIS National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC) in Fort Collins, Colorado to complete the Wildlife Disease Monitoring and Management Course. The objectives of the Wildlife Disease Monitoring and Management course were to provide an international audience of wildlife management officials with the tools to effectively design and implement disease monitoring and management plans; how to implement best practices in diagnostic samples including biosafety protocols, field methods for collecting samples from wildlife species, biosafety and biosecurity protocols in sample handling and storage, compliance with international shipping requirements, diagnostic test selection, interpretation of diagnostic test results, and compliance with reporting standards.
Administrative Cost of Food Aid under Food For Education Program Administrative Cost of Food Aid under Food For Education Program - through World Food Program
Foreign Agriculture Service Support to USAID Disaster Response Operations Under this PASA, USDA will provide technical staff to support the mandate of USAID/OFDA and worldwide relief operations in areas related to disaster response, disaster risk reduction, and disaster mitigation. Unless otherwise authorized by the USAID Agreement Officer, all services must be of United States origin.
Administrative Cost of Food Aid under Food For Progress Title I, Commodity Credit Corporation Purchase Program Administrative Cost of Food Aid under Food For Progress Title I, Commodity Credit Corporation Purchase Program - through Counterpart International
Administrative Cost of Food Aid under Food For Progress Title I, Commodity Credit Corporation Purchase Program Administrative Cost of Food Aid under Food For Progress Title I, Commodity Credit Corporation Purchase Program - through Project Concern International
2016 Plant Health Systems Analysis Course The objective of the course is to expose international participants to APHIS-PPQs approaches addressing four basic elements: 1. Exclusion and Prevention, 2. Detection and Mitigation, 3. Preparedness and Response, and 4. Phytosanitary Trade and Export Certification by reviewing the most important of the 19 safeguarding elements.
Agriculture Inspection Quarantine (AQI) and Border Security Improvement Project APHIS hosted a technical information exchange with the Mongolian General Agency for Specialized Inspection (GASI) and the Veterinary and Animal Breeding Agency (VABA) between May 13th and 19th. Mongolia, a landlocked democratic nation, has Soviet era port-of-entry state-owned facilities. The government of Mongolia received an international grant to modernize two land ports (for the northern and southern borders) that will complement the recently built modern international airport. Towards this end, a Mongolian delegation of five visited the Port of Champlain (land port), JFK (airport), and APHIS VS live animal import facility in New York State. This coordinated effort, led by Dr. Connie Bacon, included APHIS-IS, VS, DHS-CBP, and the U.S. Embassy in Mongolias Economic and Commercial Section. The weeklong event provided a rare behind the scenes overview of U.S. port-of-entry operations to include commercial and passenger cargo screening as well as the interception, seizure, and destruction of regulated articles. The CBP agriculture specialists at the Port of Champlain demonst
International Society for Disease Surveillance Conference On December 9-10, 2015, Drs. Judy Akkina, Cynthia Johnson and Sherrilyn Wainwright attended the annual International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) Conference in Denver. Dr. Akkina helped facilitate a workshop on Bio-surveillance for One Health, and as a member of the ISDS Board of Directors and chair of the ISDS Research Committee she attended meetings of these groups at the conference.
Technical Services PASA for USDA Support to USAID in the area of Natural Resources Management. USDA/FAS provides technical staff to assist three offices in USAID's Bureau of Economic Growth, Education, and Environment (E3): Forestry and Biodiversity (FAB), Water (W), and Land Tenure and Resource Management (LTRM).
Administrative Cost of Food Aid under Food For Progress Title I, Commodity Credit Corporation Purchase Program Administrative Cost of Food Aid under Food For Progress Title I, Commodity Credit Corporation Purchase Program - through United Methodist Committee on Relief
Technical Services Participating Agency Service Agreement (PASA) for USDA support to USAID in the areas of agriculture, gender equality and women's empowerment. Services Provided: Under this PASA USDA FAS Office of Capacity Building and Development provide technical staff and short-term technical assistance to assist USAID Bureau of Food Security, Office of Israeli Programs (EGAT/AG/IP), and USAID's Office of Gender Equalilty and Women's Empowerment (EGAT/GENDEV) to carry out their technical leadership, program management, and field support responsibilities. FAS also provides administrative support to the PASA technical staff to effectively carryout their tasks in support of USAID.
United States - Grant Agreement with Tuskegee University International outreach training in Quantitative Risk Analysis for Animal Health
Brucella Isolate DNA Extraction Training Brucella Isolate DNA Extraction was conducted in Collaboration with the National Veterinary Services Laboratory. This training provided practical hands-on experience that enabled participants to process tissue specimens for the isolation and identification of Brucella SPP.
RESEARCH JOINT VENTURE AND COST REIMBURSABLE AGREEMENTS THIS PROJECT WILL PROVIDE STATISTICAL ESTIMATOR SUPPORT FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES