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

0806939 Silveira这项国际规划赠款将支持Silveira博士、Vendramini Schaffer博士和佛罗里达大学的两名美国研究生以及德克萨斯农工大学的Jim Muir博士前往巴西，与巴西合作者Jose卡洛斯Dubeux博士在伯南布哥州联邦农村大学（URFPE）合作。这次规划访问的目的是支持研究项目的发展，以开发技术，使巴西现有的人工草地更持久。这项合作还将用于建立研究生和教职员工交流，以提高对草地农业国际层面的认识，并开发一个网站，以促进有关草地退化的辩论和提供有关信息

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