• Summer 08: Ecoagriculture Partners at Cornell University
Ecoagriculture Partners held an organization staff meeting on the Cornell campus from July 28-August 1st. Some 12 staff members came from Washington DC, California, the United Kingdom, Colombia and Kenya to participate.

• Spring 08: Seminar in Ecoagriculture at Cornell University
 IARD 694 2 credits, S/U NTRES 694 Thursdays, 1:25-3:05 CSS 694 Fernow 304. Instructors: Louise Buck (IARD), Jim Lassoie (NTRES), Peter Hobbs (CSS). The seminar will introduce students to ecoagriculture as a landscape model of natural resource management that seeks to sustain agriculture and food production, conserve biodiversity and ecosystem services, and secure local livelihoods.  Students and instructors will explore a coupled systems framework for planning and evaluating ecoagriculture land use strategies and analyzing landscape performance.  We will read and discuss chapters from a new ecoagriculture text and supplemental articles. Students will work in pairs or small groups to investigate reality-based ecoagriculture problem-situations in developing countries and North America, and contribute to their solution. Contact Louise Buck for further information or see course announcement.

• Summer 07: In July and August 2007, EWG coordinator Louise Buck visited ecoagriculture partners in Uganda and Kenya. In Kenya, Louise was accompanied by Jamie Herring, a PhD student in the Department of Natural Resources. Their purpose was to interview key actors in characteristic ecoagriculture landscapes and to photo-document their situations and innovations. The material will be used in the Landscape Measures Resource Center (LMRC) and for a graduate level class in International Conservation in the Department of Natural Resources. Contact Louise Buck for further information

• Summer 07:  Graduate student Jeff Milder (Natural Resources) worked at CATIE in Costa Rica, collaborating with scientists there on research that will contribute to his dissertation. Jeff's two-part study is designed to: 1) evaluate land cover-based proxies for measuring the landscape-scale conservation impacts of ecoagriculture management practices, with the goal of identifying and testing methods that are the most accurate and cost-effective in particular contexts, and 2)  test stakeholder-driven monitoring processes in disparate landscapes and synthesize the knowledge gained from these experiences.

• February 2007: Members of the EWG (Louise Buck, Tom Gavin and Jeff Milder) traveled to Mt. Elgon in Kenya-Uganda to conduct a multi-stakeholder workshop with partners in IUCN, WWF and ICRAF on measuring ecoagriculture landscape performance.

• January 31 and February 1, 2007
The President of Ecoagriculture Partners, Dr. Sara Scherr, visited Cornell to meet with members of the EWG, and to give two seminars. On January 31, she presented to the CIIFAD Forum on Agroecological Perspectives in Sustainable Development, a seminar entitled Farming with Nature: The Science and Practice of Ecoagriculture, based on her forthcoming book of the same title. On February 1, Sara presented to the Seminar in Ecoagriculture a lecture entitled: Sources of Synergy in Ecoagriculture Systems.

• January 2007: The EWG began offering a credit-bearing service seminar at Cornell University.  Louise Buck,  Tom Gavin and Laurie Drinkwater, co-instructors for the seminar.  Steven Degloria, Jim Lassoi, and Christina Tonitto also are contributing. 

October-November 2006: Louise Buck, Coordinator of the EWG, traveled to Kenya and Uganda with Sara Scherr, President of Ecoagriculture Partners, to meet with partners and identify landscapes for focusing activity on understanding ecoagriculture and enhancing capacities for management.

OTHER EVENTS :

During 2004, members of the EWG presented findings from their Assessment of the Scientific Foundations for Ecoagriculture at the First Ecoagriculture Conference and Practitioner’s Fair held September 27 to October 1, 2004, at the World Agroforestry Centre in Nairobi, Kenya.