US - Brazil Planning Visit: An International Effort to Improve Grasslands Sustainability

这笔国际规划补助金将资助Silveira博士、Vendramini Schaffer博士、佛罗里达大学的两名美国研究生和德克萨斯农工大学的Jim Muir博士前往巴西，与巴西合作者Jose Carlos Dubeux博士在伯南布哥联邦农村大学(URFPE)合作。这次规划访问的目标是支持研究项目的发展，以开发技术，使巴西现有种植的草原更具持久性。这一合作还将用于建立研究生和教师交流，以提高对草原农业的国际层面的认识，并开发一个网站，以促进与草原退化有关的辩论和信息。

0806939SilveiraThis international planning grant will support travel to Brazil by Dr. Silveira, Dr. Vendramini Schaffer, and two US graduate students from the University of Florida, and Dr. Jim Muir, from Texas A&M University to work with Brazilian collaborator Dr Jose Carlos Dubeux at Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (URFPE). The goal of this planning visit is to support the development of research projects to develop technology that enables greater persistence of existing planted grasslands in Brazil. This collaboration will also be used to establish graduate student and faculty exchanges to increase awareness of the international dimensions of grassland agriculture and develop a web site for promoting debates and presenting information related to grassland degradation