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Engaged Curriculum Grants

Fostering Engaged Learning, Research and Experience in Rural Ecuador

The expansion of long-term international opportunities for two undergraduate majors — international agriculture and rural development, and environmental and
sustainability sciences.

A proposed open-pit copper mine has threatened biodiversity and rural lifestyle in the Intag region of Ecuador since the 1990s — leading to conflicts, environmental advocacy and community organizing to design sustainable economic alternatives to mining. Through research projects and internships with new and existing community partners in the region — as well as engagement projects not requiring travel to Ecuador — students learn to apply academic knowledge to complex place-based problems, better preparing them for careers in agriculture, conservation and rural development. At the same time, community partners benefit from iterative multi-year projects that further their capacity for sustainable development and self-determination.

Grant type: Planning

Topics: Economic Vitality and Entrepreneurship; Energy, Environment and Sustainability; Food and Agriculture

The Team

  • Jim Lassoie, Department of Natural Resources

    College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

  • Angela Fuller, Department of Natural Resources

    College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

  • Carla Gomes, Department of Computer Science; Department of Information Science; Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

    College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; SC Johnson College of Business

  • Stephen Morreale, Department of Natural Resources

    College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

  • Amanda Rodewald, Department of Natural Resources; Lab of Ornithology

    College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

  • Terry Tucker, Department of Global Developmental

    College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

  • Community partner:  Asociación Agroartesanal de Caficultores Río
  • Community partner:  Defensa y Conservacion Ecologica de Intag
  • Community partner:  Mujer y Medio Ambiente
  • Community partner:  Red Ecoturistica de Intag

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