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Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) celebrates its 35th anniversary
This year, the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) celebrates its 35th anniversary. With its more than 20 contributing faculty, staff and students, FAPRI works with Congress to shape U.S. farm policy. It provides objective analysis of agricultural markets and policies and uses economic models to estimate how those policies affect consumers and markets. Recently FAPRI was named as one of the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources’ Programs of Distinction. Access more information about the institute and its work at fapri.missouri.edu.
Andres Mesa receives Best Poster Presentation Award
Rural sociology PhD student Andres Mesa received the Best Poster Presentation of a Theme with International Significance award during the 2019 Community Development Society Conference. The presentation, “Identification of food deserts in Colombia,” shared several conclusions focused on how Colombia may begin to identify food deserts and the reasons they developed, consider how policy may facilitate investment in areas with food deserts and find solutions to the food desert challenges in rural Colombian communities.
Paula Chen, 2020 Peter W. Farin Trainee Travel Scholarship Award winner
CAFNR graduate student Paula Chen has received the 2020 Peter W. Farin Trainee Travel Scholarship Award. The Peter Farin Travel Award (between $500 and $1,500) is open to any trainee (undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral, or veterinary student) who plans to attend the International Embryo Technology Society (IETS) annual meeting.
Paula’s research focuses on improving pig embryo development in an artificial culture system so that we can study early developmental processes and create genetically-modified pigs with resistance to certain viruses or other advantageous traits.
CAFNR research funding on the rise
CAFNR is up 13.3% in grants and contracts in FY 2019 compared to the previous fiscal year.
CAFNR faculty members have received the following recent grants (listed by Principal Investigator):
Thomas W. Bonnot, Development of Landscape Health Index (LHI) for Missouri Priority Geographies, 4/15/2019 – 6/20/2021, $47,411, U.S. Geological Survey
Kevin W. Bradley, An Integrated Pest Management Approach to Addressing the Multiple Herbicide-resistant Weed Epidemic in U.S. Field Crop Production (Missouri), 8/25/2015 – 8/24/2020, $20,000, Agricultural Research Service
Kerry M. Clark, East Africa Plant Health Support to EAC, 8/31/2019 – 12/31/2020, $199,975, Foreign Agricultural Service
Kerry M. Clark, W. Africa Plant Health Support to ECOWAS, 9/23/2019 – 12/31/2020, $250,000, Foreign Agricultural Service
David D. Diamond, Texas A&M Forest Service (TFS)-Federal, 9/1/2019 – 8/31/2021, $165,000, Texas A&M University
David D. Diamond, Texas A&M Forest Service (TFS)-State, 9/1/2019 – 8/31/2021, $50,000, Texas A&M University
Toshihiko Ezashi, Maintenance of Stem Cell Pluripotency in Pigs with Interleukin-6, 8/1/2018 – 7/31/2020, $77,498, Virginia Tech
Toshihiko Ezashi, Development of stem cell-based models for citrate transporter epileptic disease, 7/1/2019 – 6/30/2020, $5,767, Tess Research Foundation
Scott A. Gerlt, Improving the United States Module in Aglink-Cosimo, 9/18/2019 – 9/29/2020, $475,000, Department of Agriculture
Michael Gold, Agroforestry and Specialty Crop Development for Resource Stewardship, Livelihoods and Vibrant Communities across Missouri, 9/15/2018 – 9/30/2021, $27,103, Department of Agriculture
Robert L. Kallenbach, Scattering the Seed: An Initiative to Promote Cover Crop Use, Benefits to Agricultural Ecosystems, and Acquiring NRCS Technical Assistance, 9/14/2016 – 9/30/2021, $54,821, Department of Agriculture
Robert L. Kallenbach, MU-NRCS Grasslands Project, 9/15/2017 – 9/30/2022, $314,789, Department of Agriculture
Mary S. Leuci, Technical Education Development for Modernized Agriculture (TEDMAG) in Ghana, 1/1/2017 – 12/31/2021, $425,512, University of Saskatchewan
Gerald Miller Jr., Evaluation of Experimental Kentucky Bluegrass Cultivars from Columbia River Seed for Use in the Transition Zone, 9/1/2019 – 12/31/2022, $12,000, Columbia River Seed
Gerald Miller Jr., Evaluation of Disease Control Practices on Putting Greens, 4/1/2019 – 10/31/2019, $8,000, BASF Corp
Amy Patillo, Missouri Strike Force Farmers Development Project, 9/15/2017 – 9/30/2020, $75,000, Department of Agriculture
Craig P. Paukert, Developing Adaptation Strategies and Replacement Costs for Recreational and Tribal Fisheries, 9/17/2018 – 9/30/2021, $120,856, U.S. Geological Survey
Kenneth C. Schneeberger, CFP19 Egypt – DDGs and Corn Gluten Meal, 9/9/2019 – 3/8/2020, $50,851, Foreign Agricultural Service
Michael C. Stambaugh, Oak Woodlands & Forests Fire Consortium 2019 to 2021, 8/26/2019 – 9/30/2021, $294,218, Forest Service
Jay J. Thelen, A New Paradigm for Regulation of De Novo Fatty Acid Synthesis in Plants, 8/15/2017 – 7/31/2020, $247,057, NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences
Provided by the MU Office of Research
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