Mission and Goals

The mission of the Consortium is to foster global cooperation for the improvement of higher education and research for agriculture as a prerequisite to solving the food security and environmental problems confronting our world.

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The goals are as follows:

• Development of a world system of cooperation in Higher Education and Research for Agriculture utilizing conferences, working groups, and new information technologies to facilitate interaction on a global scale

• Support activities and close cooperation with international organizations in the areas of international education, and agricultural research and development (UNESCO, FAO, TACIS, OECD, TEMPUS, USAID, etc.).

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Objectives of the consortium are to:

• Conduct international scientific conferences on topics of critical importance;

• Share international models of curricula for training professionals in the field of agriculture;

• Assist members in the reform and alignment of curricula for specialization in agriculture;

• Promote the exchange of faculty and students;

• Offer assistance to universities which express the need to reform their organizational structure and activities;

• Organize international schools of professional improvement for university administrators and faculty;

• Implement and disseminate up-to-date achievements in applying fundamental and applied sciences and information technologies in teaching;

• Organize the publication of a proceedings of each conference; and

• Support the activities of existing international organizations which already work on the problems of agricultural education and research systems such as the Association of Public and Land Grant Universisities (A.P.L.U), the Association for European Life Science Universities (ICA), FAO, UNESCO, USAID, USIA, and special state and private foundations.

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