Michigan State University is a world leader in using environmental research aimed at fighting poverty and slowing climate change. Called Carbon2Markets, the research encompasses many collaborative projects with researchers and farmers in Thailand, Laos and other Asian and African countries to incorporate new crops such as jatropha trees into farming operations.
Publish Date: June 26, 2009 | Multimedia: 
For more than 50 years, Michigan State University has been a national academic leader in all things Africa. Whether it’s been fighting diseases such as malaria, helping to develop more disease-resistant crops, or training Africa’s future physicians, farmers or leaders, MSU has been there.
Publish Date: May 06, 2009 | Multimedia:
An MSU scientist is taking on one of the world’s biggest killers. And now, MSU supporters can too.
Publish Date: March 17, 2008
Burundi, a tiny East African country struggling to rise from the devastations of civil war, is poised to build its future by combining the time-honored traditions of coffee—the promise of altitude, soil, climate and sweat equity—with the power of the global market.
Publish Date: May 10, 2007 | Multimedia:
An MSU international agriculture initiative is meeting three needs at once.
Publish Date: Oct. 30, 2005 | Multimedia:
MSU joined the international community in mourning the deaths and losses in Asian and African countries devastated by the destructive earthquake and tsunamis on Dec. 26, 2004.
Publish Date: Jan. 06, 2005
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