Project Overview
Information Products
Commodities
- Agronomic: corn, potatoes, soybeans, sugarcane
- Fruits: bananas, papaya
Practices
- Education and Training: extension, networking, study circle, workshop
Proposal abstract:
The Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program (SOAP) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa,
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (UH CTAHR) remains committed to
conducting annual professional development educational opportunities for agricultural professionals
(AP) in cooperation with WSARE. We plan to revise and expand our website to increase access to
training materials and other resources by our agricultural professionals, and improve their ability to
post their own resources to the web. We also anticipate expanding our annual AP educational events
by organizing an additional workshop on effective use of online resources, including social media, to
extend the capacity of our agricultural professionals to reach their stakeholders and increase
adoption of Sustainable Agriculture (SA) technologies.
Project objectives from proposal:
Our goal is to enhance the online capacity and impact of Hawaii’s agricultural professionals.
To realize this goal we seek to use this supplemental WSARE funding to achieve the following
objectives:
1. Complete revision of SOAP webpages to new format (months 1-12),
2. Train 25 agricultural professionals in use of web-based tools including website posting, video
development, newsletter distribution, social media literacy, etc. (months 3-10),
3. Quantify the impact of web based extension activities by Hawaii-based agricultural
professionals (months 6-12 and beyond).