Texas A&M University/Consorcio Técnico del Noreste de México (2001)
Country:
Mexico
Award Date:
2001
Award Amount:
$100,000.00
Cost Share:
$110,975.00
Other Funds:
$187,000.00
Other Partners:
Unión Ganadera Regional de Nuevo León; Unión Ganadera Regional de Tamaulipas; Unión Ganadera Regional de Coahuila; Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias; Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango; Universidad Autónoma de San Luís Potosí; Heifer Project International; Extension Service Mexico; Producers Cooperative Association
The partners are collaborating to increase local and national management capacity to restore and sustain degraded critical ecosystems in the semi-arid regions of northern Mexico and to improve sustainable land use in these areas. Among other significant accomplishments, they have 1) trained more than 40 agricultural extension agents to diagnose, control, and prevent an important viral disease in sheep and goats; 2) evaluated ten buffelgrass cultivars for blight susceptibility; 3) installed seven weather monitoring stations in Texas and Mexico; 4) trained six Mexican graduate students to design, collect, and analyze social science-oriented research data; 5) organized a tour of production systems and industries in Texas for Mexican livestock producers; 6) launched a new animal biotechnology course at the Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas; and 7) published the first scientific article based on the Simple Ecological Sustainability Simulator model. Four Mexican producers provided direct support for the collaboration in the form of land, equipment, and supplies.