The following is the thirteenth seminar of a weekly series on Wednesdays, which is open to the Cornell community and the public. It also is offered for 1 credit as INTAG 696, NTRES 696, or CSS 696.2.

PRESENTER: Larry Harrington

DATE: Wednesday, April 26, 2006

TIME: 12:20 - 1:10 p.m.

PLACE: 135 Emerson Hall

Larry Harrington worked at CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center) for more than 20 years, most recently as director of the Intensive Agroecosystems Program, before that as director of the Natural Resources Program. He has supervised conservation agriculture research and development programs for CIMMYT in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, China, Kazakhstan, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Central America, Mexico, and other countries. For much of his career at CIMMYT, he had oversight responsibility for the Rice Wheat Consortium for the Indo-Gangetic Plains (RWC), an Ecoregional Program of the CGIAR.

SPONSORS: CIIFAD, the Management of Organic Inputs in Soils of the Tropics Group, the Ecoagriculture Working Group, the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, and the Department of Natural Resources