PACT Program

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• Driving Change: Enhancing Nutrition and Piloting the Seqota Declaration in Ethiopia's Somali Pastoral Communities, Elyas Abdulahi and Rena Felde (CALS '29)
• Social-Ecological Dialogue for Community-Based Conservation in Israel, Giselle Hazzan and Veena Sivasubramaniam (CALS '29)
• Fighting Gender-Based Violence and Promoting Gender Equality in Niger, Yachaou Mamane and Shabana Mahdis (CALS '29)
• Developing Cold Storage Technology to Reduce Food Loss and Waste in Urban Market Centres and Rural Ghana, Frank Kporwodu and Jacob Temes (CALS '29)
• Global School Meal Review and Improvement Project, Khejhae Lee and Moatapari Agbere (CALS '29)
• Pesticide Risk Reduction in Bangladesh for Food Safety Without Compromising Food Security, Karima Akhter and Izzy Tellez (CALS '28)
• Developing a Volunteer Education Program and Master Composter Network in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Roksana Tashbaeva and Aya Rosen (CALS '27)
• Grant Proposal Development for a Territorial Approach to Rural Development in Honduras, Jesus Paz Borjas and Gio Rodriguez (CALS '26)
• Policy Framework for the Promotion and Utilization of Underutilized Foods in Southeast Asia, Warangkana (Nadine) Srichamnong and Amanda Palmar (CALS '28)
• Branding Strategy for Bhutanese Highlander Yak Wool Textiles, Dorji Rinchen and William Earls (CALS '29)
• Establishing a National Platform of Change for Rural Armenia, Zorair Kirakosian and Maya Hamandi (CALS '28)

• Cooperative Model for Eden Integrated Garden Chad, Cherubin Nodjibeye with Queen Guobadia
• Developing a Grant proposal for the establishment of a certified seed company in Gabon, Nelly Sandrine ADA MENIE with Eunice Lee
• Review of Sesame Value Chain in Southern Mali, Korotoumou Mariko with Martin Emmons
• A Comparative Analysis  of Waste Management  Practices: Insights from Ithaca and Cochin, Rajamanickam M G R with Melina Kohilakis
• Improving Rural Livelihoods of Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh, Sujoy Chakma with Eamin Ahmed
• Women in Farming and Entrepreneurship (WIFE), Amanda Munyoro with Saldon Tenzin
• Be Africa Seed, Joël Appora-Gnekindy with Abigail (Abby) Brown
• Prototype Climate-Smart Dairy for Sustainable Cheese Production, Khaliunaa (Helen) Enkhbold with Georgia Warner
• Socio-Economic and Biodiversity Impacts of Carbon Offset through Agroforestry In Kenya, Diana Onyango with Elina Han
• Developing a Soil Health Program for Suriname, Oclaya Verwey with Isabel Gallegos

• Mining Industries & Tropical Ecosystem Conservation and Sustainability in Panama, Javier Hurtado Yow paired with Mira DeGregory
• Comparative Analysis of Environmental Damage Relief Systems between South Korea and the United States, Hyomi Eom paired with Phillip Goo
• Rethinking Household Solid Waste in Ethiopia, Semira Beyan paired with Sadie Groberg
• Lessons of US Agricultural Cooperatives for China, Aijun Yang paired with Lauren Chuhta
• Evaluating Livelihoods Resilience in Nigeria, Uchenna Amaechina paired with Grace Dorward
• Researching Sustainable Dairy Farming Policies in the US & EU, Rushan Ozdemir Cifci paired with Sepehra Azami
• Sister National Parks: Badlands (USA) and Vashlovani Protected Areas (Georgia), Maia Tsignadze paired with Lucy Cao
• Climate Smart Agriculture in West Africa, Bossombra Kouame paired with Blakely Duskin
• Building Sustainable Rural Futures in Africa, Ojok Okello paired with Sunny Dandapantula
• Building a Business Plan for Royal International College of Agriculture in South Sudan, Duku Emmanuel Henry paired with Albert Knoeppfler
• Raising Awareness for Ginger (Zingiber officinale) Plant Propagation Methods in Suriname, Vanessa Hok paired with Monifa Morgan-Bell

• Plastic waste recycling as a way to mitigate climate change and reduce plastic pollution (Jean Marie Nizigiyimana, Burundi)
• Tomatrix Nigeria- Social Enterprise Startup, Agribusiness, Poverty (John Babadara, Nigeria)
• Comparative analysis of the effects of drought in the Horn of Africa and Southwestern North America (Lydia Ngonzi, Uganda)
• Exploring Agricultural Development Finance and Climate Finance in the United States: Lessons for South Africa (Meselane Molepo, South Africa)
• Renewable energy in the Korean shipping & maritime industries (Dong-pyo Hong, South Korea)
• Fostering women's engagement in conservation and sustainable agriculture (Fanuel Joseph Massawe, Tanzania)
• Opportunity mapping of international cooperation between The United States and Latin American countries in Agroecology, Food Sovereignty, and Sustainable Agriculture (Carlos Morais, Brazil)
• Landscape Mapping of Food Waste Actors in the United States (Nodira Kurbanbaeva, Uzbekistan)
• Water Management in Latin American Islands: Engaging Young People and Women (Diana Ulloa)
• Determinants of Success for Small & Medium Size Family Dairy Farms in the US (Rosa Aiylchieva, Kyrgyzstan)
• Developing a Science Communication Strategy for GMO Adoption in Africa (Edith Mugehu, Zimbabwe)