| JEFFREY E. ENGELS International Development Specialist |
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| Jeffrey with USDA-sponsored Rural Youth Program winners of the Heifer Raising Award at the Lori Marz Harvest Festival in northern Armenia. 2005. |
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| Presenting the Center for Agribusiness and Rural Development-sponsored agricultural clients at ArmProdExpo 2005 with Ambassador John Evans (far left) and the President of Armenia Robert Kocharian (middle). |
| Under Jeffrey's leadership, USDA-MAP and CARD began work to support women entrepreneurs through Democracy Today's Rural Women in Development Project. Here a woman presents herbs drying for local markets.2006. |
| The native Armenian Goat is perfectly adapted to the arid, mountainous conditions of Armenia but produces low quantities of milk with low milkfat. Part of Jeffrey's portfolio in Armenia was to oversee the management of the USDA-sponsored ARID Goat Center in Yeghednadzor to improve milk production throughout the country.2006. |
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| Final visit with the staff of the ARID Goat Center in Armenia. Pictured with the Director Narine Babyan and her staff who have taken the Center from a livestock research project to a regional center that provides sound genetic enhancement services to villagers throughout Armenia. December, 2006. |
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| Jeffrey's work has specalized in helping small and medium producers enter competatively into appropriate markets. |
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| Meeting President of the Republic of Armenia Robert Kocharian. (2003) |
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| Jeffrey and his wife Karla take a photo with one of the many cooperatives established by USDA-MAP at an annual harvest festival in Yegehednadzor. |
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