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Michael M. Horowitz

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Website:	www.developmentanthropology.org
Occupation:	Director, Institute for Development Anthropology
Address:	99 Collier Street
City:	Binghamton
State:	New York
Zip Code:	13902-2207
Country:	USA
Phone #:	607-772-6244
Fax #:	607-773-8993
Short Statement:	Small Ruminant Husbandry for Immigrants to NY's Southern Tier: Environmentally, Socially, Economically, and Cultural Sustainable Movement from Welfare to Work. The Institute for Development Anthropology proposes establishing sheep and goat production and marketing operations to be owned and managed by recent immigrants to the region who have the requisite experience in their countries of origin. The goal is to improve the economic well-being of these immigrants, many of whom are refugees from oppression, while simultaneously making productive in environmental appropriate ways underutilized low fertility Appalachian highlands. Persons hostile to immigrants often brand them as "unskilled," and thereby dependent on welfare. In fact, many migrants are highly skilled in potentially marketable arenas, but these skills are rarely effectively utilized. The principal product of the operation, goat meat, is in extraordinarily high demand in New York both among immigrants from Africa, the Near East, South and Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and more generally among health-conscious consumers. The Southern Tier regio not only has a substantial immigrant population accustomed to goat meat, it is also in reasonable proximity to the metropolitan New York City area and to other major urban centers, where large concentrations of potential consumers reside. The Department of Agriculture reports that 5,000 meat goats are imported to New York from Australia every week in the attempt to meat domestic demands. Give that goats browse as well as graze, properly herded that can be used to manage private and state-owned woodlands and power-line rights of way, clearing brush and reducing the risk of fire, as an environmentally effective alternative to toxic chemical herbicides or to deforestation while simultaneously providing meaningful employment.
Displacement Experience:	Professor Horowitz focuses on the environmental and displacement impacts on riparian populations (farmers, herders, fishers) both upstream and downstream from large dams in Africa (the Senegl, Niger, Nile and Zambezi Rivers) and in Southeast Asia (the Mekong River).
Accomplishments:	UNDP Global Environmental Facility; Foundation for Endogenous Dev't & Envir'tal Sciences; U of Ibadan; Int'l Mekong River Network; Senegal Social and Environmental Advisory Group; IUCN Collaborative Management Panel; UNDP Research Committee; USAID; IBRD; UNIFEM; Oxfam
Highest Degree:	PhD Columbia University, 1969

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