SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report
Sections
Status: Approved
Basic Information
- Project No. and Title: OLD SERA47 : Strengthening the Southern Region Extension and Research System to Support Local & Regional Foods Needs and Priorities
- Period Covered: 10/01/2018 to 09/30/2019
- Date of Report: 02/12/2020
- Annual Meeting Dates: 12/12/2019 to 12/12/2019
Participants
Clemson University – Leslie Hossfeld, lhossfe@clemson.edu , Dave Lamie, dlamie@clemson.edu Florida A&M University- Jennifer Taylor, Jennifer.Taylor@famu.edu Louisiana Ag Center – Makenzie Miller, makenziemiller@agcenter.lsu.edu Louisiana State University: Carl Motsenbocker, Marcus Coleman macoleman@agcenter.lsu.edu Mississippi State –Christine Coker, cec117@msstate.edu North Carolina State University – Eric Young, eyoung@ncsu.edu , Hannah Dankbar, hcdankba@ncsu.edu University of Puerto Rico – Vivian Carro-Figueroa, vivian.carro@upr.edu Southern Rural Development Center- Steve Turner steve.turner@msstate.edu, Russ Garner, russ.garner@msstate.edu Oklahoma State University Quisto Settle, qsettle@okstate.edu University of Arkansas Pine Bluff – Iris Crosby, crosbyi@uapb.edu University of Maryland Eastern Shore – Virginie Zoumenou, vmzoumenou@umes.edu University of Puerto Rico – Vivian Carro-Figueroa, vivian.carro@upr.edu University of Tennessee – Extension – Janie Burney, jburney@tennessee.edu Tennessee State University- Leslie Speller Henderson, lspeller@tnstate.edu Virginia Tech –Ed Jones, ejones1@vt.edu, Neal Vines, nvines@vt.edu & Karen Vines, kvines@vt.edu
Accomplishments
Conference presentations:
SERA 47 Group presentations will be held at the Agriculture Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS) annual conference in Athens, Georgia.
Core Competencies for local Foods Systems: Hannah Dankbar gave a presentation on Core Competencies for local Foods Systems. The presentation is posted on the Google drive.
Values around local foods, Subcommittee Reports. The revised values proposed by the subcommittee was reviewed by the group. A motion was made to accept the revised version of the values by Vivian Carro-Figueroa and seconded by Jennifer Taylor.
Working group reports: Four working groups shared their work with the group:
Strengthening Impact Evaluation–Hannah Dankbar reported that the group submitted Pre-Proposal to SARE-PDP, but were not invited to submit full proposal. They are still working on the indicators. The next steps of the group include: Increasing membership and getting funding to build capacity to carry out POW. Please see the full report in the google drive. Please see more details on the group impact in a PowerPoint file in the 2019 Annual Meeting on google drive.
Resource Bank Group–Karen Vines initiated a collaboration with eXtension. Neal Vines was also invited by Karen Vines as a consultant. He will bring an IT perspective to the Resource group repository work.
Successful Models– Quisto reported on a survey sent to all land grant universities. The response rate was 21%. Please click on the link below for more details.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9oqczgnrqwmg3yn/Successful%20Models%20Survey%20results.docx?dl=0
Learning Communities– Leslie reported the following:
The need of a chair for the group. They are planning to put a 45 minute webinar together discussing key issues they are facing on their campuses. The ultimate goal of the group is to provide a venue/sharing space to build a learning community amongst SERA-47 participants; and to get to know one another better through sharing projects/ideas/implementation initiatives on each of the land grant campuses.