The College of Agriculture, Food Science and Sustainable Systems has produced a 2010-2011 Impact Report, which details a number of the Colleges' notable accomplishments. Accomplishments are noted in the areas of Aquaculture, Community Research Service, the Cooperative Extension Program and Educational Outreach. A copy of the report is available upon request.

Administrators of agricultural and environmental agencies from eleven African nations visited KSU's Center for Sustainability of Farms and Families on Friday, July 22nd, to discuss the Land Grant Program's sustainable agriculture research and its innovative Organic Agriculture Working Group. The visitors were brought by the U.S. State Department to participate in a program entitled "Sustainable Agriculture: Food Security in the Face of Global Climate Change." Dr. Michael Bomford and Victoria Burke led the discussion in English with simultaneous French interpretation provided by the World Affairs Council. The fourteen guests came from Angola, Burundi, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Coté d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Togo.

Economic development leaders from nine nations visited KSU's Center for Sustainability of Farms and Families on Friday, September 9th, to discuss the Land Grant Program's support of small farms and businesses. The visitors were brought by the US State Department to participate in a program entitled "Small Business Development: A Multi-Regional Project." Ms. Victoria Burke outlined the historical impact of the land grant system on small businesses, and Dr. Michael Bomford spoke about America's small farm resurgence. Dr. Cornell Menking and Ms. Jennifer Hubbard-Sanchez participated in the discussion as representatives of KSU's international programs. The nine guests came from Egypt, Hungary, Iraq, Namibia, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and the United Kingdom to explore the role of small businesses in driving economic development, democratization, and stabilization around the world.

A program on organic soil fertility and weed management brought 120 people to KSU's Center for Sustainability of Farms and Families last Thursday as part of the Land Grant Program's long-running Third Thursday Thing series, coordinated by Dr. Marion Simon. Dr. Michael Bomford gave a presentation called "It's Organic... But is it Sustainable?" and worked with Co-Investigator Tony Silvernail and Farm Manager Eddie Reed to deliver field-based demonstrations with assistance from Masters in Environmental Studies students and Land Grant Program staff, Jon Cambron, Joni Thompson and Michael Ward.

On Saturday, Sept. 10, Dr. Boris Gomelsky and Dr. Bob Durborow of the College of Agriculture, Food Science and Sustainable Systems, Aquaculture Division, presented on fish genetics and fish diseases, respectively, as invited speakers at The Goldfish Breeders Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio. The meeting was organized by The Goldfish Society of America, and the audience was comprised of advanced goldfish hobbyists and breeders from England, Japan, China and from around the United States.

Dr. Kirk Pomper, principal investigator of horticulture, and Jeremy Lowe, co-investigator of horticulture, both in the Community Research Service of the KSU Land Grant Program, led tours of the joint KSU-UK Regional Pawpaw Trial and a regional Pecan Trial in Princeton, KY at the Princeton Field Day on July 21. They gave presentations on how to grow pawpaw and nut trees successfully to about 75 people attending the Field Day.

Dr. George Antonious, principal investigator of the Water Quality/Environmental Toxicology Research in the College of Agriculture, Food Science and Sustainable Systems, recently

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