Participants

Kraig Kraft
UC Davis

Mr. Kraft is a PhD student in Agroecology at UC Davis with a concentration in the study of crop genetic resources. He has received fellowships through the Department of Plant Sciences, Herbert Kraft, Ben A. Madson, and an Ecology Graduate Group Block Grant. He co-authored "The Global Horticulture Assessment" report for USAID in 2005 and co-taught a field course in agricultural development in Panama for three years. He

has been involved in other projects throughout the world, including a T.J. Watson Fellowship which allowed him to work with various entities of the CGIAR, the FAO and other international development organizations. He intends to continue to work in the field and eventually to start his own NGO that will focus on scientific and health care capacity building in underserved rural communities.