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Michaela Hoffelmeyer
  • Global Resource Systems
  • Winterset, IA

Michaela Hoffelmeyer participates in the Borlaug Student Poster Competition

2015 Nov 11

Michaela Hoffelmeyer, of Winterset, IA, was selected as one of thirteen undergraduate students to participate in the Borlaug Student Poster Competition, which highlights student projects focused on world food issues.

Hoffelmeyer, a student in global resource systems at Iowa State University, was selected to share a poster titled "Agroforestry to Assure Food Production in School Gardens" with faculty, staff, students, and guests during a reception before the Norman Borlaug Lecture, named for the agronomist and Iowa native whose discoveries sparked the Green Revolution.

Hoffelmeyer's poster described the design of a living fence to go around Naluwoli Primary School. She used locally available materials including fence posts from insect-resistant Ficus trees and barbed wire. Euphorbia tirucalli was planted which will grow quickly and provide a dense barrier for livestock. The fence will allow the school to grow cash crops that can be sold in the local market to raise money for inputs to the school feeding program.

All students are invited to submit abstracts describing a project they have completed related to world food issues, with the top students invited to present a poster for the public. Judges at the reception used a rubric to score the projects a second time and winners were announced just prior to the lecture.

The Norman Borlaug lecture, given by the 2015 World Food Prize Laureate Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, kicks off the start of World Food Prize Week, full of discussions surrounding food issues around the world. ISU's Norman Borlaug Lecture Series is held annually in conjunction with the World Food Prize Symposium.