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Annual Meeting 2004
The 40th Annual Meeting of
The Association for International Agriculture 
and Rural Development

"Progress in International Agriculture and Rural Development"
Speakers and Panelists

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Thomas W. Crawford, Jr.
Associate Program Director
International Sorghum/Millet Collaborative Research Support Program (INTSORMIL CRSP)


Thomas W. Crawford, Jr. is Associate Program Director of the International Sorghum and Millet Collaborative Research Support Program (INTSORMIL). He has contributed to international development for more than twenty years as a scientist, diplomat, and research manager in the Caribbean, Central America, and Africa. Dr. Crawford has worked and resided in Cape Verde, Cameroon, the Dominican

 Republic, and Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo), and he continues to travel on development assignments throughout Africa and Central America. In the private sector, he managed commercial mushroom production, did agricultural and horticultural research, and managed projects employing geographic information systems and remote sensing. He has conducted research on soils and plant nutrition in several universities, is a computer hobbyist, and speaks French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish,. Dr. Crawford has studied at two universities in Italy and holds an A.B. in Religion with Distinction in General Scholarship, an M.S. in Ecology, and a Ph.D. in Soil Science, each from the University of California.

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