IPADS PhD student conducting sustainable agricultural development research, investigating craft chocolate and specialty cacao “Craft chocolate and specialty cacao has the potential to push the industry in a more sustainable direction; better farming practices to support biodiversity and conservation, ethical sourcing to improve farmer livelihoods and bargaining power, and higher quality overall, including flavor and
An IPADS PhD student conducting agricultural research at the Complex Systems Institute in Paris, France as a visiting scholar “Agriculture should be a steady and sophisticated process, with practical applications, to connect the world.” ABOUT Charles Lin is a 2nd year IPADS PhD student, and a native of Taiwan. He is under the
Doing fieldwok in Africa IPADS is global for the students’ nationality and their research fields. Jaya Nepal, a Nepalese graduate student at the 2nd year Master’s program in IPADS has worked at Kamboinse, near the capital Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso since June 2018. He is conducting a field experiment for his research “Calibration and