An Overview of Cooperative Extension Service & CTAHR’s CES Programs

Kelvin Sewake

Interim Associate Dean & Associate Director for Extension

College of Tropical Agriculture & Human ResourcesUniversity of Hawai‘i at Manoa

History of Cooperative Extension Service• 1862 – Morrill Act was signed by President Abraham

Lincoln, also known as the Land-Grant Act• States that would provide a college to teach

agriculture, military tactics and mechanical arts were given public lands.

• 1890 – Second Morrill Act passed• Increasing federal support for land-grants to “create

broader education for the American people in the arts of peace, and especially in agriculture and mechanical arts.”

• Added institutions that served primarily minority students

History of Cooperative Extension Service• 1887 – Hatch Act passed

• Established the agricultural experiment stations to expand the research capabilities of the LGUs

• Research results were communicated to farmers• Smith Lever Act of 1914

• Recognized the value of the agricultural experiment stations & the need for more information dissemination

• Established the partnership between agricultural colleges and the USDA in support of agriculture extension work

• USDA provided formula funds to each state to carry out the mission of providing for the “practical and liberal higher education of all Americans.”

Land Grant Universities

•57 1862 institutionsUniv. of California, Cornell, NCSU, Purdue, Penn State, Univ. of Hawaii

•18 1890 institutions - To cooperate with their 1862 counterparts to assist the Black population:North Carolina A&T, Tuskegee Univ., Kentucky State Univ.

•34 1994 institutionsNative American Schools

UH Manoa - CTAHR

26 Off-campus Facilities:9 Extension Offices

17 Research Stations

Extension officesHawaii (Hilo, Kona, Kamuela)Maui (Kahului)Molokai (Hoolehua)Oahu (Pearl City, Wahiawa, Honolulu)Kauai (Lihue)

The Extension Service in Hawaii• Part of a large, national land-grant system with over 3,100

counties in 50 states• Public outreach component of the LGU, (UH Manoa)• Administered by CTAHR at UH Manoa• County Extension Agents and Specialists are located

throughout the state where they carry out the mission in their local communities as well as across the state, nation, and even internationally

• Education is provided in a non-formal way for the development and improvement of individuals, families and communities

• Extension operates by extending research-based knowledge to stakeholders in a diversity of programs

• Sustain, Protect, and Manage Hawaii's Natural Resources and Environment

• Hawaii's Diversified Tropical Crop Systems for Sustainability and Competitiveness

• Invasive Species Education and Management• Youth, Family and Community Development• Health and Wellness of Hawaii's Families and Communities• Global Food Security and Hunger• Climate Change• Sustainable Energy• Childhood Obesity• Food Safety

CTAHR’s Programs & National Initiatives

Extension programs are funded by Formula or Capacity funds and by competitive grants from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

Sustain, Protect & Manage Hawaii's Nat Res & Environment

Rapid Ohia Death Wildfire Management

Sustainable Agriculture

Forestry Management

Sustain, Protect & Manage Hawaii's Nat Res & Environment

Master Gardener Program provides for urban gardening assistance to home owners utilizing trained Master Gardener volunteers. The program is available statewide in all four counties.

Lihue CES

Pearl City Urban Garden Center

Kahului CES

Kona CES

Hilo CES

Hawaii's Diversified Tropical Crop Systems for Sustainability and Competitiveness

With the demise of sugar and pineapple arose the need for agricultural diversification…

Hawaii's Diversified Tropical Crop Systems for Sustainability and Competitiveness

Floriculture & Nursery products are a strong export commodity for Hawaii

Hawaii's Diversified Tropical Crop Systems for Sustainability and Competitiveness

Hawaii's Diversified Tropical Crop Systems for Sustainability and Competitiveness

Fruit & Nut Crops are a large & important Hawaii industry

Hawaii's Diversified Tropical Crop Systems for Sustainability and Competitiveness

Livestock, Aquaculture & Aquaponics are vital components of Hawaii’s agricultural production.

Food Safety

FSMA & GAP Training is a high priority program to help farmers & food processors comply with the new FDA regulations on food safety by the deadlines

Invasive Species Education and Management

Varroa mite (circled) on a honeybee drone

CTAHR’s Research & Extension:• Coqui Frog• Stinging Nettle Caterpillar• Little Fire Ant• Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle• Erythrina Gall Wasps• Black Twig Borer• Varroa Mite• Many more…

• Banana Bunchy Top Virus• Ohia Rust• Rapid Ohia Death• Veg & Ornamental Viruses• Veg & Ornamental Fungi

Hawaii Invasive Species Council:• invasive plants• vertebrates• invertebrates• pathogens and diseases

Taro virus

Youth, Family and Community Development

4-H Program focuses on youth leadership development. Family & Community Education (FCE) program focuses on adult leadership development and community service.Intergenerational Program bridges the seniors with our youth.

4-H

IntergenerationalProgram

Family & Community Education

Health and Wellness of Hawaii's Families and Communities

Nutrition Education for Wellness Program

EFNEP - Teaching proper nutrition and diets along with a healthy and active lifestyle helps improve obesity, diabetes & other preventable diseases that plague Hawaii’s people.

• CTAHR has many public and private partners that are critical in helping CTAHR to achieve its mission:• USDA – PBARC, FSA, NRCS, FAS, RMA, DOFAW, etc.• UH Hilo & Community Colleges.• State Depts – DOA, DOH, DLNR, DHHL, DOE, etc.• Counties – R&D.• Private companies.• Over 100 non-profit organizations.

CTAHR’s Partners

EXTENSION PROFESSIONALS' CREED

I believe in people and their hopes, their aspirations, and their faith; in their right to make their own plans and arrive at their own decisions; in their ability and power to enlarge their lives and plan for the happiness of those they love.

I believe that education, of which Extension is an essential part, is basic in stimulating individual initiative, self-determination, and leadership; that these are the keys to democracy and that people when given facts they understand, will act not only in their self-interest, but also in the interest of society.

I believe that education is a lifelong process and the greatest university is the home; that my success as a teacher is proportional to those qualities of mind and spirit that give me welcome entrance to the homes of the families I serve.

I believe in intellectual freedom to search for and present the truth without bias and with courteous tolerance toward the views of others.

I believe that Extension is a link between the people and the ever-changing discoveries in the laboratories.

I believe in the public institutions of which I am a part.

I believe in my own work and in the opportunity I have to make my life useful to humanity.

Because I believe these things, I am an Extension professional.