The goal of International Agricultural Development is to improve food production, nutrition, marketing, and health in less technically advanced countries. This major prepares students for a variety of careers such as service through the Peace Corps., employment in international trade, or work in government agencies or private organizations in foreign countries. Students are trained in technical areas of agriculture that can be applied to the problems of world hunger and health, and select their areas of technical specialization from any of the agricultural and environmental sciences (i.e., agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, community development, food science, plant science, resource science). Students interested in international work develop qualities necessary for effective performance in developing areas of the world with courses in social sciences, humanities, and economics that work toward this end by providing students with an understanding of the broad cultural, social and economic environments in which agriculture operates in countries outside the USA.

Academic unit credit for internships (with emphasis in community development)

International Agricultural Development (IAD) - Course Work: IAD 92, IAD 192, IAD 292 (internships)

UCD Academic Senate guidelines for awarding academic unit credit for internships and Department of Human and Community Development (HCD) policy requires that students fill out contracts (educational work plans) and obtain faculty sponsor signatures BEFORE students start their work in the field.

To review paper work requirements (department procedures for obtaining academic unit credit) contact Sharon McDonell, HCD Internship Coordinator, 1332 Hart Hall. Tel. 530/752-1321, Email hcdinternships@ucdavis.edu

Academic unit credit for research and special study (with emphasis in community development)

IAD Course Work: IAD 99, IAD 199, IAD 299 - Department policy requires that students fill out brief contracts (educational work plans) and obtain faculty sponsor signatures BEFORE starting this course work. Special study and research contracts are available in the black carousel outside the HCD Advising Office, 1303 Hart Hall. Procedures for filling out these brief contracts and for obtaining course registration numbers (CRN#s) are listed in detail on the cover sheets of contracts. If you wish to know additional information about this process contact Linda Mijangos, Advising Assistant, 530/752-2244, Email lmijangos@ucdavis.edu

Opportunities to participate in research and special study

Paid and non-paid positions are available as assistants to faculty on research projects. Graduate students sometimes provide opportunities for undergraduates to assist them in their international development work. These positions usually involve data compilation, organization, and analysis. Students obtain work as research assistants by contacting individual faculty members, by asking if such opportunities exist, and then asking if they could be considered for such work in the future.

Transcript notation (TN)

TN is not automatic. To receive UC Davis recognition for completion of an internship, students must apply for TN at the Internship and Career Center (ICC), 2^nd fl., South Hall. TN places a statement on the student's transcript in the "Comments" section. The statement notes that the student was "such-a-kind," of intern at "x-agency," or "x-organization," and lists the city and quarters.
 

Local

CAFF -- Community Alliance with Family Farmers, Davis

Freedom from Hunger -- A non-profit group that provides credit to Third World women in support of their starting small businesses. They also provide nutrition instruction.

IDEX -- International Development Exchange is a non-governmental organization that recruits people in the USA to do background research on prospective development projects.

Institute for Rural Research -- A non-profit public interest research and education organization specializing in the problems and concerns of rural California. CIRS conducts programs of research on issues of contemporary interest and also trains citizens in such basic skills as research/investigation using public records, organizing public outreach educational events, fundraising techniques/grant writing, and organizing community based groups.

Student Experimental Farm -- UCD opportunity to gain practical experience in an organic farm system involving harvesting, planting, cultivation (manual and mechanical), integrated pest management, and composting.

Grass-roots organizations -- Rural communities, environmental issues, economic development, etc.

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National

Washington, D.C., Center (internships in government and international agencies)

Bread for the World

Inter-American Development Bank

Department of Commerce

Save the Children

Environmental Protection Agency

US Agency for International Develpmt.

Farm Credit Administration

For more information on the Washington Program, visit them on the 2^nd floor of South Hall, call (530) 754-5718, or visit

their website here.

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International

Peace Corps -- volunteers receive preferential hiring for many governments jobs

Federal agencies for international affairs -- trade, environmental policy, international economics

Missionaries -- for nutrition and health, agriculture, education and community development

Multi-national corporations -- to establish and facilitate trade with developing countries

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Please contact the following persons for additional information involving IAD internships and career options.

Marg Lee, Internship Coordinator

Agricultural & Environmental Sciences

3^rd fl. South Hall

Tel. 530/752-2671

Email molee@ucdavis.edu

Nancy Tibbitts, Internship Coordinator

Agricultural & Environmental Sciences

3^rd fl. South Hall

Tel. 530/752-2868

Email nrtibbitts@ucdavis.edu

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IAD Career options (general list)

Agricultural marketing systems analysts and administrators

Agricultural scientists

Aquaculture/ fish production managers

Agricultural marketing specialists

College and university faculty

Community advocates for the health and education of women and children

Community education instructors

Community educators for legislative reforms

Community health service developers/coordinators

Community nutrition specialists

Community organizers

Community social services network developers/coordinators

Computer programmers and peripheral equipment operators

Conservation and sustainable development in Third World nations

Consumer fraud investigators

Crop management systems specialist

Development, scheduling, dispatching and the distribution of materials and supplies

Ecology, conservation and restoration specialists

Economic development and resource specialists

Environmental impact and resources analysts

Environmental occupational epidemiology specialists

Environmental planners

Environmental researchers

Farm operations and management

Food processing managers and quality assurance inspectors

Foresters and conservation scientists

Geographic crop production specialist (local and global agro-forestry)

Grass-roots organizers for legislative actions and reforms

Greenhouse and plant nursery crop producers

Hydrologic science irrigation specialists

Information management for Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

Inspectors and compliance officers

Landscape architects

Legal and public policy educators

Legal assistance service administrators/coordinators (for disadvantaged groups)

Legal firm research assistants

Market and welfare economists

Management analysts and consultants

Master gardener instructors, UC Cooperative Extension Services

Master gardener instructors, UCD outreach to K-12 schools

Operations research analysts

Pest management specialist

Planners and development agents

Plants and soils specialists

Production and consumption economists

Public health and nutrition counselors

Public relation specialists

Radio and television newscasters

Reporters and correspondents

Resource and environmental policy analysts

Geographical surveyors

Timber cutting and logging operations and management

Urban and regional planners

Urban forestry specialists

Water and wastewater treatment and transportation specialists
 

Link to Internship and Career Center Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Careers and Internships

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