On July 2, 2024, Suzi Cyr, Program Director, and Betty Bugusu, Technical Director visited with representatives from three of the five LASER PULSE projects in Vietnam. The meeting took place at the Plant Resource Center (PRC), hosted by Dr. Vu Dang Toan, a plant breeder at PRC and the Principal Investigator (PI) of the...
Capacity strengthening is at the heart of LASER PULSE’s Applied Nutrition Research Capacity Building (ANRCB) project, which is nearing the end of its 5th and final year. Working with the Lao Ministry of Health, the Lao University of Health Sciences, and the Lao Tropical and Public Health Institute, the project supports several locally-led activities,...
A policy brief can feel like the toughest 1-4 pages that you will write for your research project because there is so much to say, so many unknowns, and so much value in a well-crafted policy brief. It might feel like there is just no way that your work is going to fit into that...
When working through your LASER PULSE project you’ll be working as a team to communicate your research to others and there are many different mediums (deliverables) through which to communicate your findings. A common type of deliverable is the policy brief. Generally, a policy brief is a 2 to 4 page document that advocates for...
Cover photo: Hongkham Xayavong (Lao TPHI) presenting her team’s poster on the nutritional status of adolescent students in Lao PDR. The LASER PULSE Applied Nutrition Research Capacity Building (ANRCB) project, which recently entered its 5th year, has as a long-term objective the strengthening of research capacity among colleagues in the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic. This capacity...
Vieba Garment Company, located in the My Hao district of Hung Yen province in Vietnam, is a private enterprise that imports raw wool and produces woolen textiles employing approximately 200 people. The enterprise has premises covering a total area of 33,480 m2, of which 8% is green tree area, the other 34% is covered by...
One of the objectives of the project “Impact of Traditional Practice on the Quality and Safety of Post-Production Handling in the Milk Value-Chain in Rwanda" is to develop an intervention mechanism to reduce postproduction losses in the Rwandan milk value chain. The project is currently being implemented in Rwanda by Alabama A&M University (AAMU)...
What should the future look like for out-of-school children and youth? Several USAID projects met in Nairobi in October 2023 to review progress on progress and look forward to future education interventions in Somalia. Over the past 5 years, AGES and BaB have implemented accelerated basic education (ABE) in Somalia, and LASER Pulse researchers have engaged...
A recent workshop brought together Mogadishu-area educators and education experts to discuss the past, present, and future of an initiative bringing schooling to some of the most-needed groups in Somalia. The Bar ama Baro (BaB) project has provided accelerated basic education (ABE) for formerly out-of-school children and youth in Somalia in recent years. The Somali Research...
“Many poultry producers know how to handle chickens safely, and they have a good attitude towards safe poultry production, but in reality, they don’t do it. They use too many antibiotics and don’t remove sick chickens from the flock. There’s moral hazard here - farms overuse growth promoters and boost their profits, but the overall...
