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Spring Service-Learning Opportunity In Tanzania

Nathaniel Kramer

The Sustainable and Resilient Tanzanian Community program has announced a series of informational sessions for their upcoming service-learning trip in May of 2018.…

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Measuring the Substantive Representation of Zimbabwean Women’s Issues in the National Legislature

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Voices from the Field Brown Bag Speaker Series

The presence of women in African politics has been hailed by observers both inside and outside the region as a step in the right…

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Brown Bag: Stuck Between Two Extremes: Trying to Find Solutions That Work in the Field and in the Lab

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Voices from the Field Brown Bag Speaker Series

Finding compatible research cultures in the field may be just as difficult–but is certainly just as important–as bridging…

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Brown Bag: From Focus Groups to Field Experiments: A Decade of Data Collection in Malawi

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Voices from the Field Brown Bag Speaker Series

Studying the relationship between identity and politics in Malawi forces researchers to rely on a plethora of data collection…

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Brown Bag: Veterinary Data Collection in Ethiopia- Maria Belu

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Kickoff speaker Maria Belu, DVM

As part of the CDC Global Health Security Agenda, Ohio State led a mass rabies vaccination pilot this year in Ethiopia. It was a six-week campaign…

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Guest Post: Farmer’s Day Exhibitions Invite Innovation For Food Production In Tanzania

Bahati Hakimu

Happy Nane Nane Day Poultry exhibition in the Eastern Zone for the Nane Nane fair, Morogoro region

In Tanzania, Nane Nane Day…

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Ohio State Student Farm Test Drives Irrigation Scheme For African Smallholder Farmers

Chaitanya Balasubramanyam

When Peter Ngimbwa, a Tanzanian student in The Ohio State University Department of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering, defended his Master’s thesis…

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Tackling Infectious Disease With A Systems Approach: Two Stories From East Africa

Maureen Langlois

A lunch forum featuring three international visitors working with Ohio State in East Africa.

Date: Wednesday, June 14, 12-2

Location: Enarson Classroom…

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Brown Bag: Promoting Technical Transformation And Financial Inclusion Among Smallholder Farmers In Africa

Maureen Langlois

Voices from the Field Brown Bag Speaker Series

Mario Miranda will discuss two interrelated factors that have been identified by development economists as critical…