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The First World Congress on Agritourism was organized by Eurac Research, a private research center, and held in Bolzano, Italy, in 2018. After bidding against India, UVM Extension won the right to host the follow-up conference, the First International Workshop on Agritourism (IWA). The plan was to hold IWA in Burlington, Vermont, in October 2020 with the next...

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Building a Better (and Cheaper!) Portable Handwashing Station

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Bridging the Health Care Gap

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The stability of the Vermont dairy industry depends on immigrants who work an average of 69 hours per week in a physically demanding job. Barriers like language, lack of transportation and fear of lost income delay workers from receiving care, resulting in more significant health problems, decreased productivity, and increased work absenteeism.

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These summaries of program impact appear in the Land Grant Impacts Database, a national system that documents and demonstrates the collective impacts of the LGU (Land Grant University) system of teaching, research and extension institutions. 

This information is also utilized by USDA-NIFA (United States Department of Agriculture - National Institute of Food and Agriculture), LGU’s, ECOP (Extension Committee on Policy), ESCOP (Experiment Station Committee on Organization and Policy) and other private/public entities to document the meaningful work of the research and extension enterprise within the LGU system.  

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