Skip to content
  • Texas A&M Forest Service
  • Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostics Laboratory
  • Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service
  • Texas A&M AgriLife Research
  • Texas A&M College of Agrculture and Life Sciences

Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture at Texas A&M University

Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture at Texas A&M University

  • Home
  • About Us
    • Dr. Norman Borlaug
    • Our Team
    • Borlaug Seminar Series
  • Partnerships
    • Current Projects
    • Previous Projects
    • Partner Organizations
  • International Training
  • Projects
    • Asia
    • Latin America and the Caribbean
    • Middle East and North Africa
    • Sub-Saharan Africa
    • Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small-Scale Irrigation
    • International Agricultural Education Fellowship Program (IAEFP)
  • Center for Coffee
  • Contact Us
    • Partner With Us

“Building Technical Extension Capacity and Improving Livestock Production in Afghanistan”

A Panel Discussion with Project Team from USAID’s Afghanistan Agricultural Extension Project II

Since the project began in October 2015, the Borlaug Institute in partnership with four other U.S. universities to help improve the lives and livelihoods of farmers in Afghanistan. The Institute leads the livestock component of the project with focused research and extension capacity building. AAEPII’s objectives include building the technical capacity of public extension service providers; increasing household incomes; improving nutrition at a household level; and promoting increased engagement of women in the agricultural and public extension sectors.

Join us for a panel discussion with Terry Hutchens, Project Director for Texas A&M AgriLife on the ground in Professor showing AAEP II participants how to trim hoovesKabul, as well as the Institute’s Livestock Officers from Parwan, Herat, and Kabul Provinces. The panel will give an overview of  the AAEPII Project and its extension model, share emerging success stories from the field, and express the future needs for extension and livestock production in Afghanistan, with time for a Q&A session at the end.

Monday, February 27th 

12:00p.m. – 1:00p.m.

AGLS Rm 129

Texas A&M University

Click here for more information about AAEPII.

 

News

Lefore named director of Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small Scale Irrigation

  • Compact with Texans
  • Privacy and Security
  • Accessibility Policy
  • State Link Policy
  • Statewide Search
  • Veterans Benefits
  • Military Families
  • Risk, Fraud & Misconduct Hotline
  • Texas Homeland Security
  • Texas Veteran's Portal
  • Equal Opportunity
  • Open Records/Public Information
Texas A&M University System Member