2018 ASHS Annual Conference
International Horticulture and Foreign Assistance: How Some Aid Agencies and Not-for-Profit Organizations Use Horticulture (and how you can become involved) *CEU Approved*
International Horticulture and Foreign Assistance: How Some Aid Agencies and Not-for-Profit Organizations Use Horticulture (and how you can become involved) *CEU Approved*
Objective(s):
1) To provide audience members with information about how horticulture plays an integral part of many Foreign Aid Programs. 2) To provide audience members with information about numerous projects and programs of Aid Agencies and NGO’s involved in U.S. foreign aid programs and how they use horticulture and horticulturists. 3) To provide audience members with specific information about how they can become involved in international horticulture programs and projects with these various Aid Agencies and NGOs. Audience members are encouraged to discuss their own experiences with these projects and programs. 4) To allow audience members to ask questions, make comments and discuss topics with regard to the importance of horticulture in various foreign assistance programs.
1) To provide audience members with information about how horticulture plays an integral part of many Foreign Aid Programs. 2) To provide audience members with information about numerous projects and programs of Aid Agencies and NGO’s involved in U.S. foreign aid programs and how they use horticulture and horticulturists. 3) To provide audience members with specific information about how they can become involved in international horticulture programs and projects with these various Aid Agencies and NGOs. Audience members are encouraged to discuss their own experiences with these projects and programs. 4) To allow audience members to ask questions, make comments and discuss topics with regard to the importance of horticulture in various foreign assistance programs.
The program will have two speakers from International Development Agencies - NGOs that subcontract with USAID. The speakers will explain how their programs use horticulture as an important part of their various projects (such as, but not limited to, projects associated with USAID and Feed the Future, Farmer-to-Farmer and some other USAID-funded program) and how our ASHS members can become involved with these programs, whether it be career track, consultant, cooperator, intern or volunteer. Our panel of expert presenters will join together in a round-table question and answer panel discussion session after the two oral presentations. After brief comments/questions to initiate the panel discussion by the moderator, the audience will be invited 1) to ask questions of the panelists, including questions related to working for or with an agency that sub-contracts with USAID, 2) to discuss with the panelists topical international issues of concern or 3) to make comments concerning topics relevant to the general subject matter of international issues & networking that concerns the professional interest group. The moderator and the panelist from CNFA will ask audience members to discuss any previous volunteer horticultural experiences in Southern Africa and how they perceived those experiences. The moderator and the panelist from Winrock International will ask audience members to discuss or explain any experiences they have had in integrating youth into international horticulture projects of the various types presented by the panelist in his presentation. Audience members are also encouraged to offer responses to questions or comments posed by other members of the audience.
Wednesday, August 1, 2018: 2:30 PM
Jefferson West (Washington Hilton)
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