Thailand collaboration

The ICS that are certified to lOAS-accredited certification body standards are compelled (as of the 2002 IBS revision) to comply with chapter 8 on social justice (see Box 14.2) as well as the rest of the IBS. In addition, many ICSs are part of producer cooperatives that also have fair trade certification. As such, additional social justice and development standards are in place - the regulatory and collaboration dimensions. The learning element of ICSs is perhaps the most dynamic and interesting. Extension is an integral and essential aspect of ICSs - and is predominantly used for technical issues. Elowever, ICSs, once in place are often a framework for other kinds of development and learning (e.g. parallel systems - HIV/AIDS education in Uganda via EPOPA Projects, local community economics in Thailand). 

Last spring, I missed a few of the best gardening days to visit the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. There, Dr. Barbara Schaal spoke about her studies with rice weeds. In collaboration with colleagues in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Schaal s research team found that a wild rice species can cross-hybridize with domesticated non-GE rice at a low frequency resulting in a hybrid variety of rice (Schaal 2007). The hybrids do not thrive in the wild because the wild rice species is better adapted and therefore quickly dominate the hybrids. For Thai farmers, however, the hybrids create a weedy nuisance. The weeds are hard to remove because the seeds shatter and build up in the soil leading to more weeds the next season. Yields of the rice crop decline proportionately with the increase in weeds. 

Those mushroom species described above are based on samples collected from islands thus, it is quite logical to expect finding those same species growing on the Asian mainland as well. Soon after Earle published his description of Stropharia (Psilocybe) cubensis in a 1906 edition of a Cuban agriculture journal, Patouillard proposed the species name Naematoloma caerulescens for his own samples of the same species, which were collected in Tonkin (Vietnam) in 1907. In Thailand and Cambodia, Heim found Ifuiting bodies of the species Psilocybe cubensis, providing the first sample from outside of Mexico used by Hofinann and his collaborators to confirm the presence of psilocybin in the fruiting bodies. 

The Committee acknowledged the significant amount of laboratory studies carried out to develop and validate these tests by the WHO Collaborating Centres in the People s Republic of China, Singapore, Sweden and Thailand ... 

Collaborative Development of a High School Green Chemistry Curriculum in Thailand... 

Acknowledgments This study was supported by collaboration with Research Unit on System Modeling for Industry (SMI), Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand, and the assistance and facilities from staff from sugar mill. 

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