Cornell International Workshop on Agricultural Education and Information Systems

Updated: September 26, 2007

Cornell International Workshop on Agricultural Education and Information Systems Part I: Knowledge Systems

Ramziath Adajo Graduate Student, Department of Agricultural Economics Michigan State University East Lansing, MI USA

*Douglas B. Allen Associate Professor Department of Management University of Denver

*Dwight W. Allen Educational Reform Specialist Eminent Scholar of Educational Reform Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA USA

Jacqeline Ashby Allianza Cambio Andino International Potato Research Center (CIP) Cali, Colombia

Cephas Ametefe Farmer Ghana

Suresh Chandra Babu Senior Research Fellow International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) Washington, DC, USA

Ousmane Badiane Senior Research Fellow / Senior Research Advisor Africa Coordinator, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Pretoria, South Africa

Peter Baker Graduate Student, Educational Curriculum and Instruction Old Dominion University, VA, USA

Venkataraman Balaji Head, Knowledge Management and Sharing International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

1 Patancheru, India

Marianne Banziger Director, Global Maize Program International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) Nairobi, Kenya

*Sara Boettiger Strategic Planning and Development Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture (PIPRA) University of California Davis Davis, CA USA

*Gracian Chimwaza Executive Director for Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa (ITOCA) South Africa

Gopal Chowhan Executive Director, Sustainable Agriculture and Farming Enterprise (SAFE) Development Group Dhaka, Bangladesh

Loy Van Crowder Senior Officer, Extension Systems Research and Extension Division Natural Resources Management and Environment Department Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Rome, Italy

Nango Dembele Assistant Professor, International Development Michigan State University and Coordinator, PROMISAM (Project de Mobilisation d'Initiatives en Matiere de Securite Alimentaire) Bamako, Mali

Vibha Dhawan Vice Chancellor TERI University New Delhi, India

*Carl K. Eicher University Distinguished Professor Emeritus Michigan State University East Lansing, MI USA

Cheruvathoor Elsy

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics College of Horticulture, Kerala Agricultural University Kerala, India

Mushtaq Gill Director General, On-Farm Water Management Punjab Provincial Department of Agriculture Lahore, Pakistan

Ken Giller Professor, Plant Production Systems Department of Plant Sciences Wageningen University Wageningen, The Netherlands

Lutz Goedde Senior Program Officer, Agricultural Development Global Development Program Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Seattle, WA USA

Diana Grusczynski Associate Program Officer, Agricultural Development Global Development Program Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Seattle, WA, USA

Jeanette Gurung Director, Women Organizing for Change in Agricultural and NRM (WOCAN) Ithaca, NY, USA

E.A. "Short” Heinrichs Research Professor, Department of Entomology Consultant to INSORMIL and IPM CRSP and Secretary General, International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences (IAPPS) University of Nebraska Lincoln, NE, USA

Robert Herdt International Professor, Applied Economics and Management (Adjunct) Cornell University Ithaca, NY, USA

3 Melissa Ho Program Officer, Agricultural Development Global Development Program Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Seattle, WA, USA

Barbara Hutchinson College of Agriculture and Life Sciences University of Arizona Tucson, AZ USA

Henry Kalomba Regional Manager - North National Smallholder Farmers’ Association of Malawi (NASFAM) Lilongwe, Malawi

Nidal Mahah Karim Graduate Student, Ecological/Community Psychology Michigan State University East Lansing, MI, USA

Margaret Kroma Assistant Professor, Education International Extension Cornell University Ithaca, NY, USA

Edward Mabaya Research Associate, Emerging Markets Program Department of Applied Economics and Management (AEM) Cornell University Ithaca, NY, USA

Vongai Kandiwa Majaha Graduate Student, Department of Development Sociology Cornell University Ithaca, NY, USA

*Karim M. Maredia Professor and Program Director World Technology Access Program(WorldTAP) Institute of International Agriculture Michigan State University

Pamela Marinda Sustainable Agriculture Centre for Research, Extension and Development in Africa Bungoma, Kenya

4 Janet McCue Director, A.R. Mann Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY, USA

Lakshmi Murthy Assistant Director, Documentation National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management Hyderabad, India

Gorettie Nabanoga Senior Lecturer, Community Forestry Extension Faculty of Forestry and Nature Conservation Makerere University Kampala, Uganda

Sameena Nazir Graduate Student, International Agriculture and Rural Development Cornell University Ithaca, NY USA

Margaret Ngwira College Librarian and Secretray, UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networking Kamuzu College of Nursing University of Malawi Lilongwe, Malawi

Jean Njiru Graduate Student, International Programs Cornell University Ithaca, NY, USA

*Mary Anderson Ochs Head Information Services and Collections Albert R. Mann Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY USA

Willis Oluoch-Kosura Program Director, Collaborative Msc in Agricultural and Applied Economics, African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) Nairobi, Kenya

*Patrick M. O’Shea Post-Doctoral Fellow

5 Harvard University Cambridge, MA USA

Chris Pal Computer Science Department University of Rochester Rochester, NY USA

Ranjit Page Chief Executive Officer Cargills (Ceylon) Limited Colombo, Sri Lanka

Alice Pell Director, Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture, and Development (CIIFAD) Cornell University Ithaca, NY, USA

Athula Perera Director, Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture University of Peradeniya Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Rex Raimond Facilitator, Meridien Institute Dillon, CO, USA

Vanaja Ramprasad Director, Green Foundation Bangalore, India

Sieglinde Snapp Soils and Cropping System Ecologist Department of Crop and Soil Science and W.K. Kellogg Biological Station Michigan State University East Lansing, MI, USA

Roy Steiner Senior Program Officer, Agricultural Development Global Development Program Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Seattle, WA, USA

*Thane Terrill Adjunct Associate Professor of Computing and Education Teachers College, Columbia University New York, New York USA

6 Eugene Terry Independent Consultant Formerly, Director of the West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA) and Implementing Director of the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) Washington, DC, USA

Robert Tripp Research Associate, Protected Livelihoods and Agricultural Growth Programme Overseas Development Institute London, UK

Terry Tucker Associate Director, CALS International Programs and CIIFAD Cornell University Ithaca, NY, USA

Srikant Vasan Senior Program Officer, Global Libraries Global Development Program Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Seattle, WA, USA

*Rajesh Veeraraghavan Microsoft Research India, Bangalore

Cholani Weebadde Assistant Professor and Associate Director World Technology Access Program (WorldTAP) Institute of International Agriculture Michigan State University East Lansing, USA