“I Saw What They Could Do, And I Joined Them!” – Building the Skills of Female-Led Farmer Groups in Indonesia
“I Saw What They Could Do, And I Joined Them!” – Building the Skills of Female-Led Farmer Groups in Indonesia By Anna Snider Earlier this year a group of researchers from IPB University in Bogor Indonesia and University of Illinois trained 51 extension workers on extension techniques to strengthen female-led farmer groups in Indonesia. Since […]
ADMI hosts Gulati for panel discussion, lecture, and book launch
ADMI hosts Gulati for panel discussion, lecture, and book launch A renowned expert on Indian policy visited University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign this fall to join discussions on how to best repurpose policies for a sustainable and nutritious future in the world’s most populous country and celebrate a new book based on ADMI research. Ashok Gulati, […]
Addressing Postharvest Loss in the Congo
Addressing Postharvest Loss in the Congo ADMI Associate Director Anna Snider met last week with representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, representatives of Congolese expat communities, and local community leaders interested in learning more about low-resource farming techniques. Dr. Snider gave a participatory training about low-cost technologies and practices to reduce food loss […]
Forty-Eight of Indonesia’s Extension Workers Trained to Empower Female Farmers
Forty-Eight of Indonesia’s Extension Workers Trained to Empower Female Farmers By Anna Snider As part of ADMI’s ADM Cares-funded Empowering Smallholders in Indonesia through Strengthening Female Led Farmer Organizations, 48 of Indonesia’s frontline extension workers participated in a training on strengthening female-led farmer groups. The training was held via Zoom on July 4 in conjunction […]
Importance of Capacity Building in Promoting Better Postharvest Management
Importance of Capacity Building in Promoting Better Postharvest Management By Bradley Brinkley, Global Food Security Fellow, ADM Institute for the Prevention of Postharvest Loss Research institutions, non-profit organizations, and farmer cooperatives all play a critical role in extension, knowledge sharing, farmer training, and enabling change. Strengthening institutional and human capacity, however, is a frequently overlooked topic […]
University of Illinois students engage with postharvest issues
University of Illinois students engage with postharvest issues Despite the chaos of the 2020-21 school year, here at ADMI we have had some amazing University of Illinois students helping us out with important research and web development. Yeon Jun (Y.J.) Park worked with ADMI from summer 2020 to spring 2021 as our web developer and […]
PHL Scholars: Examining the economic impacts of post-harvest loss prevention
PHL Scholars: Examining the economic impacts of post-harvest loss prevention Educating future generations of postharvest loss researchers and practitioners is an important part of ADMI’s mission. To that end, ADMI developed the Postharvest Loss Reduction Scholarship (PHL Scholar) program that funds master’s and doctoral students conducting cutting-edge postharvest loss-related research in different departments at the […]
PHL Scholars: Learning to look past a high-tech solution to find the best one
PHL Scholars: Learning to look past a high-tech solution to find the best one Educating future generations of postharvest loss researchers and practitioners is an important part of ADMI’s mission. To that end, ADMI developed the Postharvest Loss Reduction Scholarship (PHL Scholar) program that funds master’s and doctoral students conducting cutting-edge postharvest loss-related research in […]
PHL Scholars: Working toward storage time standards for soybeans
PHL Scholars: Working toward storage time standards for soybeans Educating future generations of postharvest loss researchers and practitioners is an important part of ADMI’s mission. To that end, ADMI developed the Postharvest Loss Reduction Scholarship (PHL Scholar) program that funds master’s and doctoral students conducting cutting-edge postharvest loss-related research in different departments at the College […]
PHL Scholars: Improving nutrition by reducing grain contamination and losses
PHL Scholars: Improving nutrition by reducing grain contamination and losses Educating future generations of postharvest loss researchers and practitioners is an important part of ADMI’s mission. To that end, ADMI developed the Postharvest Loss Reduction Scholarship (PHL Scholar) program that funds master’s and doctoral students conducting cutting-edge postharvest loss-related research in different departments at the […]