Downloading Project-Related Documents

Several of the documents related to this project's activities can be downloaded from this site. All documents are in "pdf" file format, which is readable and printable with Adobe's Acrobat Reader freeware. We have tried to ensure (but do not guarantee) that all files posted at this site can be accessed by Acrobat Reader on both the PC and Mac platforms.

Downloadable files are currently organized into two categories: trip reports and project activities. We may subdivide this into more document classes in the future, as the need arises. Periodically, we will also be adding new files.

• 1998
• 1999
• 2000
• 2001
• 2002
• 2003

• 1997
• 1998
• 1999
• 2000
• 2001

Last moodified on October 02, 2001

DownloadableProject Activity Documents

1998 Documents

• Project Description - an 11-page document describing the project; a condensed version of the original proposal.
• Year 1 Annual Progress Report - a 23-page document summarizing activities during the project's first fiscal year, 11 February 1997 to 10 February 1998.
• Program Planning Workshop - a 55-page report on the workshop held during 1-3 December 1997 to plan project activities for the next five years; includes reports presented by collaborators characterizing intensive testing sites in Costa Rica, Mali and Philippines, and summaries and recommendations from group discussions on various aspects of planned project activities.
• Year 2 Workplan - a 48-page description of workplans for the project's second fiscal year, 11 February 1998 to 10 February 1999.
• P Buffer Coefficient Estimates/Costa Rica - a 4-page description of laboratory estimates of P buffer coefficients for soils in Costa Rica; this is one of various tasks associated with development of the P decision support system (PDSS).
• Baseline Survey Report/Costa Rica - a 27-page report on the baseline survey of the project's intensive testing site near Sarapiqui, Costa Rica. Survey data for individual farmer interviews are contained in a separate file named CRica_Encuesta.pdf.
• Baseline Survey Report/Mali - a 20-page report on the baseline survey of the project's intensive testing site near Segou, Mali. Survey data for individual farmer interviews are contained in a separate file named Mali_SurvResult.pdf.
• Baseline Survey Report/Philippines - a 14-page report on the baseline survey of the project's intensive testing site near Ilagan, Luzon, Philippines.
• Year 2 Annual Progress Report - an 86-page document summarizing activities during the project's second fiscal year, 11 February 1998 to 10 February 1999. Due to several figures in this report, it is rather large (787Kb).

1999 Documents

• Year 3 Workplan - a 40-page description of workplans for the project's third fiscal year, 11 February 1999 to 10 February 2000.
• NDSS Algorithms for Corn - an analysis of N fertilization trials with corn in South America illustrates procedures used to develop regional and crop-specific data for N recommendations by NDSS. 13 pages.
• Philippines Mid-term Survey Report - a 26-page report on the mid-term survey of the project's intensive testing site near Ilagan.
• Philippines Mid-term Survey Data - responses to the survey questionaire used in 43 individual interviews with farmers in the project's site near Ilagan.
• Year 3 Annual Progress Report - the document summarizing activities during the project's third fiscal year, 11 February 1999 to 10 February 2000 contains 180 pages. To make downloading easier it has been divided into 3 separate *.pdf files according to project objectives. The file for Objective 1 (development of the decision support system software and activities at the intensive testing sites in Costa Rica, Mali and Philippines) includes a summary and introduction section and is the largest file (1.01Mb). The file for Objective 2 describes laboratory and literature research activities related to development of the acidity, N and P knowledge base (0.55Mb). The file for Objective 3 describes network activities, including the workshop in the Philippines, and development of auxiliary tools (0.10Mb).

         2000 Documents

• Year 4 Workplan - a 32-page description of workplans for the project's fourth fiscal year, 11 February 2000 to 10 February 2001.
• Mali Mid-term Survey Report - a 12-page report on the mid-term survey of the project's intensive testing site near Segou, Mali.
• Year 4 Annual Progress Report - the document summarizing activities during the project's fourth fiscal year, 11 February 2000 to 10 February 2001 contains 150 pages. To make downloading easier it has been divided into 3 separate Acrobat Reader files according to project objectives. The file for Objective 1 (development of the decision support system software and activities at the intensive testing sites in Costa Rica, Mali and Philippines) includes a summary and introduction section (256Kb). The file for Objective 2 describes field, laboratory and literature research activities related to development of the acidity, N and P knowledge base (373Kb). The file for Objective 3 describes network activities such as data provided from or field testing of the software at collaborator sites (69Kb).

          2001 Documents

• Year 5 Workplan - a 20-page description of activities planned for the projects fifth and final fiscal year, 11 February 2001 to 10 February 2002.

  2002 Documents

• Report on Regional Workshops - a 16-page document summarizing activities and outcomes for 3 regional workshops (Africa, Asia and Latin America) carried out during January - March 2002. Appendices (pp. 5-16) contain an outline of the programs and list of participants for each workshop.
  

  2003 Documents

• Year 5 Annual Progress Report - the document summarizing activities during the project's fifth and final fiscal year, 11 February 2001 to 25 October 2002, contains 127 pages. The file for Objective 1 (development of the decision support system software and activities at the intensive testing sites in Costa Rica, Mali and Philippines) includes a summary and introduction section (462Kb). The file for Objectives 2 & 3 describes (a) field, laboratory and literature research activities related to development of the acidity, N and P knowledge base (Obj. 1) and (b) network activities such as data provided from or field testing of the software at collaborator sites (Obj. 3) (551Kb).

Trip Reports

1997

• Costa Rica, July 13-19, 1997 - to select the intensive testing site in Costa Rica; includes visits to several locations within the country; 8 pages.
• Philippines, August 13-21, 1997 - to select the intensive testing site in the Philippines; includes visits to several national and international institutes in that country; 8 pages.
• Senegal/Mali, September 25-October 1, 1997 - visits to national institutes in Senegal and Mali during trip to select intensive testing site in Mali; 9 pages.

1998

• Costa Rica, January 11-17, 1998 - travel by Lloyd Hossner and Anthony Juo (Texas A&M University) to initiate collaborative agroforestry program with the Organization of Tropical Studies (OTS) at La Selva; 2 pages.
• Mali, February 22-March 2, 1998 - travel by Lloyd Hossner, Frank Hons (Texas A&M University) and Frank Smith (N.C. State University) to conduct a baseline survey of the intensive testing site near Cinzana and finalize plans for on-farm and on-station field trials; contains a description of treatments for the core experiment and on-farm trials; 10 pages.
• Costa Rica, June 21-27, 1998 - travel by Nguyen Hue (University of Hawaii), Jot Smyth and Michael Wagger (N.C. State University) to finalize experiment designs and research protocol for field, greenhouse and laboratory investigations on soil acidity management, nutrient acumulation and residue decomposition in peach palm production systems for heart-of-palm on Andisol/Ultisols of the Atlantic Coast region; 17 pages.
• Philippines, July 27-August 5, 1998 - travel by Russell Yost (University of Hawaii) to assist PhilRice and IRRI collaborators in establishment of the core experiments and on-farm trials in San Antonio, Isabela, Philippines; contains a description of the treatments for the core experiment; 13 pages.
• Venezuela, July 29-August 7, 1998 - travel by Shaw Reid and Yamily Zavala (Cornell University) to discuss and develop collaborative relations for evaluation of IntDSS software with various national organizations and to evaluate ongoing field experiments on coffee response to lime, calcium and magnesium inputs; contains a two-page brochure which the authors developed to describe the project; 7 pages.
• Guatemala and Costa Rica, August 3-7, 1998 - travel by Fred Cox (N.C. State University) to select soils in Central America and plan laboratory and greenhouse experiments with University of Costa Rica collaborators to improve the application of the phosphorus decision support system to soils other than Ultisols and Oxisols; 4 pages.
• Costa Rica, August 2-8, 1998 - travel by Adrian Ares (University of Hawaii) to discuss with University of Costa Rica collaborators diagnostic methods for P sufficiency in peach palm and P fertilization experiments; contains a draft of a review paper on fertilization responses and nutrient diagnostic methods for peach palm; 25 pages.
• Mali, September 13-21, 1998 - travel by Dan Israel (USDA-ARS and N.C. State University) to evaluate progress in the project's core experiment at Cinzana-Mali, assist in evaluation of nodule activity in cowpea, share progress in NDSS and IntDSS development with collaborators, and become familiar with relevant long-term experiments at Cinzana; 8 pages.
• Peru, Ecuador & Costa Rica, September 22-October 6, 1998 - travel by Jot Smyth (N.C. State University) to attend the 6th Peruvian Soil Science Congress, initiate interaction with collaborators in Peru and Ecuador on the integrated decision support system software prototypes, and provide technical backstopping assistance to ongoing project investigations by collaborators in Costa Rica; 14 pages.
• Philippines, November 22-27, 1998 - travel by Fred Cox (N.C. State University) to work with IRRI and PhilRice collaborators on data from long-term P experiments, initiate development of a manuscript on the P Decision Support System (PDSS), and become familiar with ongoing project field research in Barangay Centro San Antonio near Ilagan, Luzon; 3 pages.

1999

• Philippines, January 17-23, 1999 - travel by Nguyen Hue (University of Hawaii) to work with PhilRice and IRRI collaborators on soil and plant sampling protocols for chemical analysis, observe peanut crop response to treatments in the core field experiment and become familiar with on-farm trials in Barangay Centro San Antonio near Ilagan, Luzon; 7 pages (the document is 583Kb due to inclusion of 11 images, but it is well-worth the download time).
• Brazil & Costa Rica, March 12-17, 1999 - travel by Adrian Ares (University of Hawaii) to work with collaborators at INPA and EMBRAPA in Manaus, Brazil on ongoing P fertilization experiments with peach palm, to demonstrate and discuss with them the current PDSS2 software, and to discuss and assist collaborators at the Univ. Costa Rica select a site and develop experimental protocols for a P experiment with peach palm; initial site characteristics and experiment description for the P trial in Costa Rica are included, as are additional literature on peach palm that was collected while in Brazil; 10 pages.
• Brazil, South Africa & Philippines, March 7-31, 1999 - travel by Jot Smyth (North Carolina St. Univ.) to conduct preliminary evaluations of project software and become familiar soil nutrient management knowledge and experiences among extensive network collaborators in the Cerrados of Brazil and KwaZulu-Natal, S. Africa; visit ongoing project activities near Ilagan, Luzon, Philippines and initiate discussions with PhilRice about using their facilities for a project workshop; includes images of peanut crop at pod-filling stage in the core experiment near Ilagan and literature collected while in South Africa; 16 pages.
• Australia, March 18-31, 1999 - travel by Fred Cox (North Carolina St. Univ.) to participate in the 6th Int. Symp. on Soil and Plant Analysis and present a poster project results related to the P module of the decision support system; 3 pages.
• Guatemala, Honduras & Costa Rica, April 13-22, 1999 - travel by Jot Smyth (North Carolina St. Univ.) to participate in the PCCMCA meetings (Guatemala), work with network collaborators on collection-interpretation of soil P data in Central America (Honduras), and provide technical backstopping assistance to collaborators at the Univ. Costa Rica on ongoing and new experiments; includes description of recent data and plans for new experiments with peach palm in Costa Rica; 12 pages.
• Costa Rica, May 23-30, 1999 - travel by Frank Smith (North Carolina St. Univ.) to perform the midterm socio-economic assessment, in conjunction with local collaborators, of project activities related to peach palm production for palmito in the Huertar Norte region of Costa Rica; the midterm assessment report comprises 12 of the 13 pages in this document.
• Mali, June 20-July 2, 1999 - travel by Lloyd Hossner, Frank Hons (both of Texas A&M Univ.) and Frank Smith (North Carolina St. Univ.) to (a) perform the midterm socio-economic assessment, in conjunction with local collaborators, of project activities in Cinzana, Mali; (b) review research progress and data from the 1998 field and laboratory trials; and (c) coordinate implementation of the 1999 field and laboratory trials. Report on the midterm evaluation is still under development and will be provided in a separate document. This trip report contains 7 pages.
• Raleigh, August 21-September 2, 1999 - travel by Gabriela Soto (Univ. Costa Rica) to Raleigh to complete analysis and interpretation of three 48-week field trials on peach palm litter decomposition which were conducted near Guapiles, Costa Rica. 13 pages.
• Mali, August 21-28, 1999 - travel by Dan Israel (North Carolina St. Univ.) to assess nitrogen fixation by cowpea and evaluate data generated by ongoing core experiments with cowpea and millet in Cinzana, Mali. The initial version (1.0) of the Nutrient Management Support System (NuMaSS) software was also demonstrated to and evaluated by Institute d'Economie Rurale collaborators in Sotuba and Cinzana. The trip report contains 9 pages.
• Bolivia, Nov 29-Dec 8, 1999 - travel by Russell Yost (Univ. of Hawaii) and Jot Smyth (North Carolina St. Univ.) to assess existing nutrient management information, potential application of the NuMaSS software and assist local collaborators in designing field trials to acquire pertinent information for improved nutrient management for targeted alternative crops in the Counter Narcotics Consolidation of Alternative Development Efforts (CONCADE) project of the Chapare, Bolivia. 17 pages.

           2000

• Honduras, February 8-12, 2000 - travel by Lloyd Hossner (Texas A&M Univ.) in conjunction with Anthony Juo (Texas A&M Univ.) and Charles Sloger (USAID-Washington) to explore potential opportunities for joint activities by SM-CRSP projects in Honduras. 3 pages.
• Thailand, March 18-28, 2000 - travel by Russell Yost (Univ. of Hawaii) to explore collaborative activities with IBSRAM, Kasetsart University and IRRI's Upland Program in Laos (via contacts with Dr. Bruce Lindquist in Thailand). Included are preliminary data for sites to be used in collaboration with Kasertsart University. 5 pages.
• Mali, May 27-June 3, 2000 - travel by Lloyd Hossner (Texas A&M Univ.) to assist collaborators at the Institute d'Economie Rurale to organize data collected in 1998 and 1999, and to discuss plans for the 2000 crop year. 2 pages.
• Mali, August 12-19, 2000 - travel by Frank Hons (Texas A&M Univ.) to assist collaborators at the Institute d'Economie Rurale in establishing field trials for the 2000 crop year and to obtain pending data on field trials from the 1998 and 1999 crop years. 3 pages.
• Ecuador and Costa Rica, September 17-28, 2000 - travel by Fred Cox (N.C. State Univ.) to Costa Rica to assist collaborators at the Univ. Costa Rica to initiate a greenhouse experiment on P fertilization of peach palm, review progress of field trials on N and P fertilization of peach palm, and discuss results of the laboratory P incubations on Central American soils. Travel in Ecuador focused on discussions and review of in-country datasets related to P management in Andisols. 12 pages.
• Costa Rica, September 9-24, 2000 - travel by Adrian Ares (Univ. of Hawaii) to Costa Rica to assist collaborators at the Univ. of Costa Rica to sample and measure belowground biomass and nutrient accumulation in peach palm stands, implement alternative approaches to diagnosing soil and plant P status, and review/discuss results for ongoing experiments. 7 pages.
  
  2001
  
• Costa Rica, April 17-22, 2001 - travel by Fred Cox (N.C. State Univ.) to assist collaborators at the Univ. of Costa Rica to harvest and define laboratory P measurement protocols for a greenhouse experiment on peach palm response in seedling growth and P uptake to P fertilization in Andisols and Ultisols of Costa Rica. 4 pages with images showing the extent of growth response to P fertilization in each of the 10 soils.
• Mali, July 7-28, 2001 - travel by Fran Hons (Texas A&M Univ.) and Frank Smith (N.C. State Univ.) to work with collaborators at the Institute d'Economie Rurale in collecting data for field experiments, interpreting results and initiate farmer surveys to assess on-farm impacts of the project. 4 pages.
• Costa Rica, June 1-9, 2001 - travel by Frank Smith (N.C. State Univ.) to work with collaborators at the Univ. of Costa Rica on the final socio-economic assessment of project impacts. 11 pages.