{"id":14577,"date":"2024-07-01T15:14:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T13:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/?p=14577"},"modified":"2024-11-06T23:49:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T21:49:10","slug":"participation-in-usda-fas-cochran-fellowship-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/en\/climatecrops-en-en\/participation-in-usda-fas-cochran-fellowship-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Participation in USDA-FAS Cochran Fellowship Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:43px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"awb-background-pattern\" style=\"background-image:  url(data:image\/svg+xml;utf8,%3Csvg%20width%3D%2275%22%20height%3D%2275%22%20fill%3D%22none%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Cg%20clip-path%3D%22url%28%23prefix__clip0_43_338%29%22%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M32.763-11.976c-1.05-.075-1.95.676-2.024%201.726L29.764.849c-.075%201.05.675%201.95%201.725%202.026%201.05.075%201.95-.675%202.025-1.725l.975-11.1c.075-1.05-.675-1.95-1.725-2.025l-.001-.001zM54.299%201.32a1.911%201.911%200%2000-.386.015c-.975.15-1.725%201.05-1.575%202.1l1.5%2011.025c.15.975%201.05%201.725%202.1%201.575a1.732%201.732%200%20001.575-2.1l-1.5-11.025c-.131-.853-.836-1.533-1.714-1.59zM7.369%202.54a1.809%201.809%200%2000-1.662%201.663c-.075%201.05.675%201.952%201.65%202.027l11.1%201.05c.975.15%201.95-.601%202.025-1.651.15-.975-.6-1.95-1.65-2.025l-11.1-1.05a1.642%201.642%200%2000-.363-.015v.001zM1.76%2013.017a1.824%201.824%200%2000-1.285.6l-7.65%208.101c-.75.75-.675%201.95.075%202.625s1.95.674%202.625-.076l7.651-8.099c.75-.75.674-1.95-.076-2.625a1.786%201.786%200%2000-1.34-.526zm75%200a1.824%201.824%200%2000-1.285.6l-7.65%208.101c-.75.75-.675%201.95.075%202.625s1.95.674%202.625-.076l7.651-8.099c.75-.75.674-1.95-.076-2.625a1.786%201.786%200%2000-1.34-.526zm-39.731%202.906a1.786%201.786%200%2000-1.34.527l-7.95%207.723c-.75.675-.826%201.875-.076%202.625.675.75%201.875.752%202.625.077l7.95-7.725c.75-.675.826-1.875.076-2.625a1.827%201.827%200%2000-1.285-.602zm24.639%2018.928c-.24.02-.48.085-.705.197a1.903%201.903%200%2000-.825%202.55l5.1%209.902a1.902%201.902%200%20002.55.824c.975-.45%201.276-1.574.826-2.55l-5.1-9.9c-.395-.73-1.125-1.083-1.846-1.023zm-50.37-4.862c-.372%200-.734.117-1.035.336-.825.6-1.05%201.725-.524%202.625l6.15%209.223c.6.9%201.8%201.127%202.625.526.9-.6%201.124-1.8.524-2.624l-6.15-9.226a1.911%201.911%200%2000-1.59-.86zm32.705%209.766c-.12-.006-.243%200-.365.019l-10.95%202.175c-1.05.15-1.725%201.126-1.5%202.176.15%201.05%201.126%201.725%202.176%201.5l10.95-2.175c1.05-.15%201.725-1.125%201.5-2.175a1.99%201.99%200%2000-1.811-1.52zm4.556%2012.195a1.933%201.933%200%2000-1.845.949c-.45.9-.15%202.025.75%202.55l9.75%205.4c.9.45%202.025.15%202.55-.75.525-.9.15-2.025-.75-2.55l-9.75-5.4c-.22-.11-.46-.178-.705-.199zM71.913%2058c-1.05-.075-1.875.748-1.95%201.798l-.45%2011.1c-.075%201.05.75%201.876%201.8%201.95.975%200%201.875-.75%201.95-1.8l.45-11.1c.075-1.05-.75-1.873-1.8-1.948zm-55.44%201.08c-.38.031-.741.178-1.035.42l-8.775%206.825c-.75.6-.9%201.8-.3%202.625.6.75%201.8.9%202.626.3l8.775-6.827c.75-.6.9-1.8.3-2.625a1.783%201.783%200%2000-1.591-.72v.002zm16.29%203.945c-1.05-.075-1.95.675-2.024%201.725l-.975%2011.099c-.075%201.05.675%201.95%201.725%202.026%201.05.075%201.95-.675%202.025-1.725l.975-11.102c.075-1.05-.675-1.95-1.725-2.024l-.001.001z%22%20fill%3D%22rgba%28239%2C31%2C0%2C1%29%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3Cdefs%3E%3CclipPath%20id%3D%22prefix__clip0_43_338%22%3E%3Cpath%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20d%3D%22M0%200h75v75H0z%22%2F%3E%3C%2FclipPath%3E%3C%2Fdefs%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E);opacity: 0.1 ;mix-blend-mode:normal;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-center fusion-flex-justify-content-center fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1352px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_3_4 3_4 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:75%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:2.56%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:2.56%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\" data-scroll-devices=\"small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-center fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p align=\"justify\">In June 2024, the Climate Crops Centre member, Dr. Sonja Gvozdenac, participated in the USDA-FAS Cochran Fellowship Program on the topic &#8220;Climate Smart Agriculture and Food Systems Innovation&#8221; at the North Caroline State University&#8217;s (NCSU) College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS). Sonja was engaged with the USDA Southeast Climate Hub, NCSU researchers, North Carolina farmers, and climate specialists.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The training at NCUS included a mix of industry representatives, farmers, government officials, and university researchers that provided a well-rounded training that addressed science communication, the challenges of climate change, practical agronomic tools to address climate change, and regional resources. The goal of this program was to educate Fellows to provide effective climate-smart policies to support food security and implement climate-smart practices that are rewarded in the global trading system.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">During training, several tours were organized for the fellows, such as the tour of the USDA Southeast Climate Hub, the Center for Environmental Farming Systems, the agroecology farm, the plant science building, the NC State Phytotron and Drought Physiology Lab, a New Ground Farm in Pembroke, the tour of Locklear Brothers Farm, and the Organic Farming Research plot with a focus on soil as a carbon sink. Sessions that we attended were very diverse in topics, but all fit the scope of the training.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"awb-gallery-wrapper awb-gallery-wrapper-1 button-span-no\" style=\"--more-btn-alignment:center;\"><div style=\"margin:-5px;--awb-bordersize:0px;\" class=\"fusion-gallery fusion-gallery-container fusion-grid-2 fusion-columns-total-3 fusion-gallery-layout-grid fusion-gallery-1\"><div style=\"padding:5px;\" class=\"fusion-grid-column fusion-gallery-column fusion-gallery-column-2 hover-type-none\"><div class=\"fusion-gallery-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Plant-helth-lab.jpg\" rel=\"noreferrer\" data-rel=\"iLightbox[gallery_image_1]\" class=\"fusion-lightbox\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Plant-helth-lab.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Plant-helth-lab.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" alt=\"\" title=\"Plant helth lab\" aria-label=\"Plant helth lab\" class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-14578\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271600%27%20height%3D%271200%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201600%201200%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271600%27%20height%3D%271200%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Plant-helth-lab-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Plant-helth-lab-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Plant-helth-lab-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Plant-helth-lab-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Plant-helth-lab-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Plant-helth-lab.jpg 1600w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(min-width: 2200px) 100vw, (min-width: 732px) 648px, (min-width: 640px) 732px, \" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div style=\"padding:5px;\" class=\"fusion-grid-column fusion-gallery-column fusion-gallery-column-2 hover-type-none\"><div class=\"fusion-gallery-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Farm-visit.jpg\" rel=\"noreferrer\" data-rel=\"iLightbox[gallery_image_1]\" class=\"fusion-lightbox\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Farm-visit.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Farm-visit.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" alt=\"\" title=\"Farm visit\" aria-label=\"Farm visit\" class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-14580\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271200%27%20height%3D%271600%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201200%201600%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271200%27%20height%3D%271600%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Farm-visit-200x267.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Farm-visit-400x533.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Farm-visit-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Farm-visit-800x1067.jpg 800w, https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Farm-visit.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(min-width: 2200px) 100vw, (min-width: 732px) 648px, (min-width: 640px) 732px, \" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div><div style=\"padding:5px;\" class=\"fusion-grid-column fusion-gallery-column fusion-gallery-column-2 hover-type-none\"><div class=\"fusion-gallery-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Cochran-fellows.webp\" rel=\"noreferrer\" data-rel=\"iLightbox[gallery_image_1]\" class=\"fusion-lightbox\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Cochran-fellows.webp\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Cochran-fellows.webp\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" alt=\"\" title=\"Cochran fellows\" aria-label=\"Cochran fellows\" class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-14579\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271200%27%20height%3D%271200%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201200%201200%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271200%27%20height%3D%271200%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Cochran-fellows-66x66.webp 66w, https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Cochran-fellows-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Cochran-fellows-200x200.webp 200w, https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Cochran-fellows-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Cochran-fellows-400x400.webp 400w, https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Cochran-fellows-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Cochran-fellows-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Cochran-fellows-800x800.webp 800w, https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Cochran-fellows-1024x1024.webp 1024w, https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Cochran-fellows.webp 1200w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(min-width: 2200px) 100vw, (min-width: 732px) 648px, (min-width: 640px) 732px, \" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2573],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climatecrops-en-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14577"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14661,"href":"https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14577\/revisions\/14661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifvcns.rs\/climate-crops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}