Building International Partnerships and Funding for Climate Change Work in Guatemala, Lesotho and Mozambique.

Developing partnerships and finding sources of funding to apply climate science to agriculture and forestry systems in an international setting can be a daunting task. This presentation will discuss some of the international projects that University of Tennessee soil science faculty have been involved with in Guatemala, Lesotho and Mozambique since 2006. We have been involved in a variety of research, extension and service learning projects that range from the promotion of fuel-saving cook stoves to on-farm evaluation of drought tolerant maize varieties and real time measurement of carbon flux under different cropping systems. Funding from these projects include USDA and USAID as well as from alumni donors. Our partners include Universities, International Research Centers, private companies and local non-governmental organizations.