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  1. Building African Food Security One Student at a Time

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/building-african-food-security-one-student-time

    International Programs in Agriculture, a total of 135 Tanzanian graduate students are receiving advanced ... its agricultural sector.   The project’s leadership says that with 128 graduate students enrolled in ... help policymakers in his home country unearth new crop potential. “The Kilombero Valley is one of the ...

  2. OSU Extension Fights Food Insecurity in Buckeye State

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/osu-extension-fights-food-insecurity-in-buckeye-state

    Martha Filipic COLUMBUS, Ohio-- Food insecurity isn’t just a problem in developing countries. It ... food-insecure communities. “Right now, we’re using a one-size-fits-all approach to address food insecurity in ... a worse food insecurity status.” People in that situation tend to first find cheap foods that might supply ...

  3. Buckeyes Playing Long Game in Tanzanian ‘Feed the Future’ Initiative

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/buckeyes-playing-long-game-in-tanzanian-%E2%80%98feed-the-future%E2%80%99-initiative

    efforts to address food insecurity are matters of life and death. But in addition to helping food ... directs the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences’ Office of International Programs in ... is vital to address the long-term food security needs of the country, Kraybill said. For instance, ...

  4. Majority of CFAES grads report positive job outlook

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/majority-cfaes-grads-report-positive-job-outlook

    other countries, Cahill said. “The fact that our students have secured positions in multiple states and ... the average wage reported by interns at $13 per hour. CFAES students completed internships in 25 ... College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences report either having a job or being enrolled in ...

  5. Open Food Trade, Safety Nets Crucial to Global Food Security: Ohio State Economist

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/open-food-trade-safety-nets-crucial-global-food-security-ohio-state-economist

    global food security, not hurt it,” said Sheldon, the Andersons Professor of International Trade in the ... international prices of heavily traded staple crops such as wheat, Sheldon said. This, in turn, can affect food ... market, which resulted in lower international food prices that impacted producing nations. “International ...

  6. GROWING EXPERTS TO STOP HUNGER

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/hunger-tanzania

    insecurity in their country. For seven years, a CFAES faculty member, David Kraybill, lived in Tanzania and ... consider waste— the peel, the roots, the leaves— to enrich the product.” As a graduate student in the CFAES ... Mirondo hopes to help improve the food processing industry in Tanzania by increasing the country ...

  7. Meadows Named to ACE Fellows Program

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/meadows-named-ace-fellows-program

    President Molly Corbett Broad said in a news release. “The diverse and talented 2017-18 Fellows Class ... capacity-building efforts, along with a network of peers across the country and abroad, the news release said. ... Meadows has served on more than a dozen nonprofit, state, regional and international boards. In addition ...

  8. Project Cultivates Tanzanian Agricultural Expertise for Future

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/project-cultivates-tanzanian-agricultural-expertise-for-future

    degree training for as many as 100 Tanzanian graduate students through 2016. Half of these students will ... efforts, 43 Tanzanian students received training in February to take the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), ... country of Feed the Future, the Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative of the U.S. government. And ...

  9. CFAES Increasing Agriculture Productivity in East Africa

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/cfaes-increasing-agriculture-productivity-in-east-africa

    Malnutrition Amid Food Waste In Rita Mirondo’s native country of Tanzania, where a little more than one-third ... product.” As a student in the Department of Food Science and Technology, Mirondo learned ways to pasteurize ... and the classrooms and labs in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES), ...

  10. Ohio State Economists Discuss Sustainable Development at Discovery Themes Lecture/COMPAS Conference

    https://cfaes.osu.edu/news/articles/ohio-state-economists-discuss-sustainable-development-discovery-themes-lecture-compas

    questioned whether these countries would be able to meet the world’s food needs in a sustainable way. Sheldon ... examined the role of trade policy and food prices, noting that “some developing countries have used trade ... policies to combat high food prices.” In noting the “world’s connectedness, yet high levels of income ...

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