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July 2013 |
This award recognises and nourishes AIAEE members who have made exceptional contributions to the extension profession. Fellows must have no less than 8 years and no more than 15 years’ service as a professional in agricultural and extension education and must show great promise for continued contributions. Dr Dolly was one of five members to achieve this new award and commemorative medal for 2012. His association with AIAEE has been long standing; he provided valuable leadership within a local organising committee when AIAEE held its very first international conference in 1999 in Trinidad & Tobago. He has also worked with professionals from the organisation to understand modern agricultural extension technique and philosophy. At this year’s conference in Dallas Fort Worth, he presented a paper on rebranding agricultural extension in the Caribbean together with colleagues Dian Francis and Brent Theophile of the Institute for International Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA) Trinidad & Tobago. This study was based on a regional panel discussion at the Caribbean Week of Agriculture in Grenada in 2010. Dr Dolly plans to continue promoting the region’s agricultural extension effort and to gain the support of the international agricultural community in assisting the region’s agricultural development. |
Dr David Dolly, Lecturer in Agricultural Extension in the Faculty of Food and Agriculture, has been recognised as a Fellow of the Organisation of International Agricultural and Extension Education (AIAEE).