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Title: Enhancing Cityscapes and Landscapes: Partnerships between Langston University and Tribal and Municipal Governments
Type: USDA Renewable Resources Extension Act Program
Project Number: OKLURREA2016
Period: 2016-2021
Investigators: T.A. Gipson, S. Hart, R. Merkel, T. Sahlu
Institutions: Langston University
Objectives:
- Establish partnerships between Langston University and tribal and municipal governments, and will establish demonstration sites using goats for biological control with Langston University providing technical assistance.
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Title: Empowering Community-Based Organizations in Rural Oklahoma to Increase Knowledge Base, Enterprise Productivity, and Economic Sustainability
Type: 1890 Universities Foundation
Project Number: Langston
Period: 2018
Investigators: T.A. Gipson, R. Merkel, M. Anderson, C. Williams, D. Guy
Institutions: Langston University
Objectives:
- Reestablish and build new partnerships with Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) serving limited resource, veteran and beginning farmers; establish baseline parameters for small ruminant and/or vegetable production systems;
- Provide technical assistance to support production and management of lucrative and sustainable small ruminant enterprises as well as for intensive vegetable production systems for CBOs serving limited resource producers;
- Provide a series of training workshops to inform CBOs of USDA Rural Development and other programs that will help to enhance enterprise profitability and sustainability.
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