Annual Meeting 2005
The 41st Annual Meeting of
The Association for International Agriculture 
and Rural Development
June 5-7, 2005

Speakers and Panelists

Dr. Haggerty is a food scientist with twenty four years of experience in teaching, research, administration, regulatory, and consulting work in food science and nutrition in the US and abroad. Currently, Haggerty is responsible for providing leadership in international affairs in CALS. Haggerty also holds the positions of Adjunct Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education and of Food Science and Toxicology at the University of Idaho. He has wide experience in educational, technical, institutional, and programmatic aspects of ensuring a safe, nutritious, affordable food supply to consumers. 

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He has extensive experience dealing with training and adaptive research under the auspices of USAID, FAO, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, USDA, and various private programming agents contracted to these funding agencies. The geographical region of greatest familiarity to him outside the US is southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia. He has considerable experience in Pakistan, Nepal and Romania, with additional experience in Jamaica, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan, China, and Georgia. Bob is active in the International Agriculture Section of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC). He earned a B.S. at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, M.S. at Washington State University and Ph.D. at the University of Idaho.