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DeBakey Executive Research Leadership Program, Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture
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| Project Leader: | Dr. Lindsay Sansom lindsay.sansom@tamu.edu Geography |
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Meeting Times:
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Monday or Friday afternoon |
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Team Size:
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3 (Team Full) |
| Open Spots: | 0 |
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Special Opportunities:
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Opportunity to hone research skills and strengthen writing skills. Potential opportunity for publications. Also, an opportunity to get research credit hours (1-3 hrs per semester) from GEOG 491.
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Team Needs:
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We need a team of undergraduates to assist with identifying gaps and opportunities to contribute to broader literature, assist with creating a comprehensive literature review, and to collect and manage a literature database. Students will also have an opportunity to work on papers, as appropriate and depending on writing abilities. I prefer students who are willing to add at least 1 research credit hour (GEOS 491), which is the equivalent of 3 hours per week.
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Description:
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The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small-Scale Irrigation is a five-year project that aims to benefit farmers of Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania by improving effective use of scarce water supplies through interventions in small-scale irrigation. It is a part of the U.S. Government’s Feed the Future Initiative. The four major project components include: identifying promising, context-appropriate, small-scale irrigation interventions, management, and practices for poverty reduction and improved nutrition outcomes; evaluating production, environmental, economic, nutritional, and gender impacts, trade-offs, and synergies of small-scale irrigation technologies and practices; identifying key constraints and opportunities to improve access to small-scale irrigation technologies and practices; and capacity development and stakeholder engagement. To accomplish these objectives, we are addressing: possible biophysical, infrastructure, economic, and societal constraints; location-specific natural resources, societal constraints, and needs of women and men; and impacts on food production, agricultural input requirements, societal constraints, and impacts on land and water resources. To learn more about the project, visit: https://ilssi.tamu.edu/
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