WASHINGTON, D.C.
American farmers will join Peace
Corps Volunteers (PCVs) overseas
this fall in a “Farmer-to-Farmer”
initiative designed to provide
much needed agricultural exper
tise to fafmers throughout the
developing world.
During the pilot two year Peace
Corps program approximately SO
American farmers a year will work
with PCVs and developing world
farmers as agricultural extension
ists. The 30 to 120 day assign
ments will be implemented in con
junction with Volunteers In Over
seas Cooperative Assistance
(VOCA), an organization that rep
resents approximately 75 million
American cooperative and credit
union members.
The accord almost doubles the
amount of VOCA volunteers in the
field. Last year 54 VOCA volun
teer farmers and agricultural sector
specialists worked as consultants
with developing world coopera
tives and farmer associations
which requested assistance.
The expanded Agency for Inter
national Development (A.1.D.)
financed Farmer-to-Farmer initia
tive is funded under an amendment
Representative Doug Bereuter of
Nebraska attached to the Farm and
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Security Act of 1985. Under Con
gressman Bereuter’s amendment.
one-tenth of one percent of all U.S.
funds appropriated for the Food for
Peace Program is to be used to
send American farmers as volun-
teers to developing countries for
short-term assistance.
Peace Corps Director Loret
Miller Ruppe called the accord
with VOCA “a breakthrough for
the Peace Corps that enables
PCVs, developing world and
American farmers to combine for-
ces against the misery of malnutri
tion and hunger.”
She said, “More than 1,500
PCVs work on agricultural and
food production projects around
the world. They carry a simple,
basic, home-grown message
‘Soil can be improved. Pests can
be controlled. Food yields can be
increased. Post-harvest losses can
be cut.’ The Volunteers and the
people they work with, however,
need help.
“VOCA is an organization of
experts, experienced people,
respected in every part of rural
America for their ability to solve
the practical, everyday problems
of farming. Our grassroots con
tacts and their experience makes
for wonderful, life-giving
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Congressman Bereuter praised
the joint Peace Corps and VOCA
initiative. He said, “Farmer-to-
Farmer works and we are proud of
these volunteers. It is fitting that
the program will become part of
the Peace Corps, an organization
that has a tradition of mobilizing
valuable human resources for Vol
unteer programs.
Farmer has much to offer host
nations and Volunteers.”
Peace Corps Agriculture Spe
cialist Phil Jones said that future
team efforts could include activi
ties such as recruiting an American
dairy farmer, who, with PC V assis
tance, could work with Ecuadoran
milk producers, introducing them
to the latest in ration formulation
and animal health practices. Other
U.S. farmers, he said, might advise
counterparts in Gambia in grain
bin construction to cut post harvest
losses or teach farmers in Nepal
American irrigation techniques to
increase vegetable production.
Under the agreement Peace
Corps will identify specific Peace
Corps agricultural projects that can
benefit from the consulting ser
vices of VOCA Volunteer farmers.
Peace Corps will subsequently
provide orientation and cross cul-
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tural training to volunteer farmers
it selects from recommendations
proposed by VOCA. It will also
monitor and evaluate the Fariner
to-Farmer projects for effective-
ness. VOCA will not only recruit
candidates for the Peace Corps
field placement, but they will also,
under terms of the AID contract,
fund the farmer volunteer’s travel,
living allowance, insurance and
out-of-pocket costs during the
short term assignments.
“In much of the Third World
food production is a matter of life
or death,” Peace Corps Director
Ruppe declared. “American far
mers keep the horrible specter of
Award For Poultry Research Paper
NEWARK, DE Michele C.
McGuinness of Wilmington, Del.,
a graduate student in avian phys
iology at the University of Dela
ware College of Agricultural Sci
ences, has been awarded a certifi
cate of excellence for the research
paper she presented at the 1987
Poultry Science Association
meeting.
Only the top 10 percent of gra
duate students presenting papers at
the meeting received this honor.
McGuinness, 22, reported on stu-
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famine, disease, and premature
death from our shores. Now with
the Farmer-to-Farmer program we
are going to the world’s countrys
ide to help others help themselves.
We’re not waiting until television
again shows us films of starving
and dying children,” she said.
Peace Corps officials expect
that the Farmer-to-Farmer initia
tive will aid the Agency in deve
loping a model short term Volun-
teer program. The Peace Corps is
currently considering plans for
abbreviated PCV tours of six
months to a year for candidates
possessing especially scarce skills
in the fields of agriculture, health
and education.
dies she conducted on the hormone
somatomedin and its interaction
with growth hormone in chickens.
The annual meeting of the associa
tion was held in Corvallis, Ore., in
August.
A native of Wilmington,
McGuinness attended John Dick
inson High School. She received
her bachelor’s degree in Animal
Science in 1986 from the Universi
ty of Delaware and will receive her
master’s degree in the spring of
1988.
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