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global perspective on pesticide use:
Organized and hosted by INSTRUCT, an international program based at Trent and designed to aid environmental rehabilitation in Mexico and Ecuador, the conference will be held at Camp Kawartha. The Kawartha World Issues Centre is co-sponsoring the event, and OPIRG staff have also helped out.
"INSTRUCT is into its sixth, and final, year," explains Linda Slavin, Trent’s INSTRUCT program manager for education, research and community development. "We deal primarily with watershed ecosystem restoration work in the Rio Texcoco watershed in Mexico and the Lago San Pablo watershed in Ecuador, using an integrated ecosystem management system that is broad in its approach. Cultural, social and economic issues are examined in addition to environmental information. Partnerships include universities, communities, municipalities and non-governmental organizations."
Funded by the Canadian International Development Agency, INSTRUCT operates out of the Trent International Program office. Volunteers are crucial to the function of the organization, including faculty from Trent, the University of Guelph, University of Waterloo and the University of New Brunswick. Trent students have also helped to organize several conferences. Photo 1: Students in Ecuador are involved in a paper recycling project as a result of INSTRUCT. Photo 2: Trent’s Dean of Research and Graduate Studies visited Mexico and designed improvements for a well with local residents. Photo 3: A group of women in Mexico work in a medicinal herb garden, another INSTRUCT project. Posted November 7, 2002 |
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