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A larger international role
for colleges of agriculture at
the University of Maryland
and certain other land-grant
universities could
significantly ease the
problem of world hunger.
With both educational and
research capabilities, their
faculty members are
problem-oriented—they are
good both at identifying
needs and developing
practical methods for
solving problems.
So says Earl Brown, Dean
of the College of Agriculture
at the University of
Maryland in College Park.
Brown testified recently in
Washington, D.C., before the
House appropriations
subcommittee on foreign
affairs, chaired by
Congressman Clarence D.
Long (D-2nd district),
Maryland’s senior House
member.
The hearing was con
ducted to bear outside
witnesses in support of
proposed fiscal year 1981
appropriations for foreign
assistance and related
agencies. Maryland’s Dean
Brown had been invited to
testify on behalf ot -th«
National Association of State
Universities and Land-Grant
Colleges, the American
Association of State Colleges
and Universities, and the
University of Maryland.
In his prepared statement
for last week’s hearing on
Capitol Hill, Brown called
attention to the serious
problem of world hunger and
malnutrition—especially in
the less-developed countries
where population is in
creasing rapidly.
“There is considerable
evidence that the world’s
food system is not working
well,” be said, “and food
production in the less
developed countries must be
increased to avoid large
scale malnutrition and
starvation.
“Some countries will have
to double their available food
supply by the year 2000 just
to maintain per capita food
consumption at current
levels,” he declared. “If one
adds to this the problem of
malnutrition resulting from
nutritionally unbalanced
diets, the combined
problems are staggering.”
Brown said he agrees with
the President’s Commission
on World Hunger that the
United States should make
elimination of world hunger
the primary focus of its
relationships with
developing nations. Here are
the mam reasons:
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moral responsibility to do
so;
Increased agricultural
nroductivity in Third World
nations will lead to increased
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power builds up;
Alleviating hunger and
malnutrition problems can
help to insure world peace.
Zeroing in on the role of
the University of Maryland,
Brown noted its College of
Agriculture lies next-door to
the Nation’s Capital and
virtually adjacent to the
world-renown Beltsville
Agricultural Research
Center of the U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture.
He declared that the
university needs to expand
its international dimensions
in the realm of agriculture
for under-developed coun
tries.
Brown noted the College of
Agriculture’s international
dimension could be
enhanced by “having more
foreign students in our
classes and having
professors travel and work
in foreign countries.”
He also called for in
ternational additions to the
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libraries and altering the
content of courses to give
better understanding of
agriculture, problems and
cultures in other nations.
Brown commented, “It is
reasonable and legitimate
for the citizens of a state to
support an expansion of the
international dimension of
their state university to the
extent that it enriches
domestic teaching, research
and Extension programs for
the benefit of its citizens.
“But it is not realistic to
expect the citizens of a state
to subsidize a foreign
teaching program, provide
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to build and develop foreign
instutitions that are not of
direct benefit to the state.
This is more legitimately a
national responsibility and
should be supported with
federal funds.”
The Maryland spokesman
believes that the best results
will be achieved through a
cooperative program bet
ween the Agency for In
ternational Development
and U.S. colleges of
agriculture with both state
and federal funding of a
long-term nature.
Furthermore, educational
institutions—like the
tops Berks FFA
they would recommend the
land be used for and what
conservation practices they
would use.
The team placings were as
follows: 1. Tulpehocken; 2.
Twin Valley; 3. Kutztown;
and 4. Conrad Weiser.
Individuals placings in the
top 10 were as follows: 1.
William Lesher,
Tulpehocken; 2. Kim Noyes,
Twin Valley; 3. Gary Beck,
Tulpehocken; 4. Steve
Snyder, Twin Valley; 5.
University of Maryland —
which have had limited
experience in international
agriculture, need special
help to get started. Con
tinuation of a program to
strengthen U.S. universities
in this regard—under Title
XII of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1975—is
absolutely essential, Brown
declared.
He emphasized that
colleges of agriculture, and
their faculty members, can
be most useful in helping the
less-developed countries
develop and strengthen their
own capacity to educate
their citizens and conduct
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Brown came to Maryland
on Aug. 15, 1979, after 18
months as a U.S. program
leader with the Board of
International Food and
Agricultural Development,
which operated in con
junction with the Agency for
International Development
in the U.S. Department of
State.
Prior to that, he had been
associate director for in
struction in the College of
Agriculture and Life
Sciences at Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY.,
since 1972.
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