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

0806939Silveira博士、Vendramini Schaffer博士、佛罗里达大学的两名美国研究生以及德州农工大学的Jim Muir博士将前往巴西，与伯南布哥联邦农村大学（URFPE）的巴西合作者Jose Carlos Dubeux博士合作。这次规划访问的目的是支持研究项目的发展，以开发技术，使巴西现有的种植草原能够更持久地存在。这项合作还将用于建立研究生和教师交流，以提高对草地农业国际层面的认识，并开发一个网站，促进辩论和提供与草地退化有关的信息

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