Beneficios de un programa de intercambio académico internacional y retos para su sostenibilidad

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54767/ad.v3i2.153

Keywords:

Intercambio académico; Sostenibilidad; México-Estados Unidos;

Abstract

Este artículo documenta la ejecución exitosa de un programa de intercambio académico experimental piloto entre el Colegio de Postgraduados Campus Córdoba (COLPOS) y el Instituto de Agricultura de la Universidad de Tennessee Campus Knoxville (UTIA) durante el período 2020-2023. Por un lado, estudiantes de nivel licenciatura de UTIA cursaron de manera presencial la clase experimental “los negocios de producir y comercializar café en México” en el COLPOS. En reciprocidad, estudiantes de postgrado del COLPOS completaron en UTIA el programa “acompañamiento internacional de investigación”, que incluyó un componente experimental. El artículo describe los factores que los autores consideran relevantes para la implementación exitosa del programa —y, por extensión, para programas similares— así como las limitaciones y retos para su sostenibilidad. Finalmente, se indica cómo este trabajo colaborativo puede impactar ciertos indicadores de políticas públicas.

Author Biographies

Carlos Omar Trejo-Pech, Universidad de Tennessee

Carlos Trejo-Pech, researcher and assistant professor of agribusiness finance at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, has been named a managing editor of the International Food and Agribusiness Management Review.

Roselia Servín Juárez, Colegio de Postgraduados Campus Córdoba

Dr. Roselia Servín-Juárez works as a Professor in Colegio de Postgraduados Campus Córdoba in Veracruz Mexico. From 2019 to 2020, she was in Sabbatical Year at The University of Tennessee, United States. In 2012, she completed her Ph.D. at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Some relevant expertise is derived from the following activities and roles: (1) Collaborator in the project “An International Research and Extension Experience with Cooperatives in Developing Countries: The Case of Certified Coffee Cooperatives in Mexico,” a research project with the University of Tennessee from 2018-2020; (2) Director of External Relations and Extension from 2015 to 2020; (3) Leader of the extension project “Training and technical assistance to indigenous people in Zongolica, Veracruz from 2016-208.

She has published 21 scientific articles on microfinance, specialty coffee shops, and piloncillo competitiveness. She is a reviewer of scientific articles (referee) in 15 journals. She has managed 11 training and technical assistance projects with the National Institute of the Indigenous Towns (INPI by its acronym in Spanish), JP Morgan Foundation, WK Kellogg Foundation, Veracruz Produce Foundation, and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA). Through these projects, she organized training courses supporting rural families in various municipalities of Veracruz (Zongolica, Chocamán, Naranjal, and Córdoba, among others) and the Carribean Region (Haiti). She has 20 years of professional experience teaching, research, and outreach at the Colegio de Postgraduados Campus Córdoba (2002-2022) in Veracruz, Mexico.

Margarita Velandia, Universidad de Tennessee

Dr. Velandia’s research and Extension programs focus on the factors influencing farmer decision-making processes related to production practices and marketing strategies, including 1) the adoption of mechanization and automation technologies in row crop and specialty crop production; 2) the adoption of environmentally sustainable production practices in specialty crop production such as biodegradable mulches and Integrated Pest Management Strategies (IPM); and 3) specialty crop farmer use of direct-to-consumer market outlets and participation in market outlets with a food justice mission. Additionally, she prepares enterprise budgets for various specialty crop production systems, conducts economic feasibility analysis of precision farming technologies and environmentally sustainable production practices in specialty crop production, and develops decision-aid tools to help specialty crop farmers make informed decisions. Additionally, she investigates labor shortage challenges faced by US specialty crop operations and the alternatives to overcome these challenges.

Victorino Morales Ramos, Colegio de Postgraduados Campus Córdoba

Dr. Morales-Ramos has a Ph.D. from the School of physico-mathematical Sciences of the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. He graduated in 2006 with Viva Voice Examination, defending the thesis "Construction of Two-Level Fractional Factorial Designs."
Master's degree in Statistics from the Colegio de Postgraduados, from 1996 to 1997. He graduated with a thesis research titled "Construction and Evaluation of Resolution III Factorial Designs."
Agroindustrial Engineer by the Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, from 1986 to 1993. He graduated through thesis research titled "Statistical Quality Control in the Coffee Solubilization Process."
As a Full Research Professor at the Colegio de Postgraduados, he teaches courses in the Master's Program in Sustainable Agri-Food Innovation (PNPC-CONACYT). In addition, he is a Full Professor of the following subjects: IAS-608 Statistical Methods in Agri-Food Systems. Taught in the Spring Semester. IAS-606 Experimental Designs for Innovation, IAS-628 Coffee Science and Technology.

 

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Published

2023-06-20

How to Cite

Trejo-Pech, C. O., Servín Juárez, R., Velandia, M., & Morales Ramos, V. (2023). Beneficios de un programa de intercambio académico internacional y retos para su sostenibilidad. Agro divulgación, 3(2). https://doi.org/10.54767/ad.v3i2.153

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2023): MARZO-ABRIL

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