RECENT PRESENTATIONS IN CONFERENCES

Cabrera, V.E. , Letson, D. Optimal Climate Crop Insurance Strategy: Contrasting Insurer and Farmer Interests. NOAA 2006 Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop: Research and Applications on Use and Impacts. March 2006, Tucson , Arizona .

Cabrera, V.E. , Breuer, N.E. Hildebrand, P.E., and Letson, D. The dynamic North Florida dairy farm model: A user-friendly computerized tool for increasing profits while minimizing N leaching under varying climatic conditions. American Farm Bureau Federation, 87 th Annual Convention. January 2006, Nashville, Tennessee.

Cabrera, V.E. , Fraisse, C., Letson, D., Podesta, G., Novak, J. Impact of climate information in reducing farm risk by selecting crop insurance programs. Paper accepted to the U.S. Climate Change Science Program Workshop. Climate Science in Support of Decisionmaking. November 2005, Arlington , Virginia .

In July 2005, I attended the ASAE Annual Meeting in Tampa Florida. I presented the paper entitled "Climate Information to Reduce Farm Risk"

In April 2005, I attended the Annual Meeting from the Society for Applied Anthropology held at Santa Fe. I presented the paper entitled "Proactive Environmental Protection: Modeling North Florida Dairy Farms and Their Environmental Impacts"

In March 2005, the Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop Research and Applications on Use and Impacts was held in New York at the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction of Columbia University. I presented the paper entitled: The Value of Climate Information when Farm Programs Matter.

In April, 2004, the 6th European Symposium on Farming and Rural Systems Research and Extension was held in Vila Real, Portugal. I presented the paper entitled "Economic and ecologic assessment of groundwater nitrogen pollution from north Florida dairy farm systems: an interdisciplinary approach."

In March, 2004, I was able to participate in several conferences. One was the annual meeting from the Society for Applied Anthropology held in Dallas, Texas, in which I presented the paper entitled Participatory Modeling of North Florida Dairy Farm Systems. Other was the annual meeting from the Florida Academy of Sciences held in Orlando, Florida, in which I presented a paper entitled "Economic and ecologic assessment of groundwater nitrogen pollution from north Florida dairy farm systems: an interdisciplinary approach." Another was the Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop held in Tallahassee, Florida, in which I presented the paper entitled "El Niño southern oscillation impact on nitrogen leaching in north Florida dairy farm systems." And another meeting was the Biological Systems Simulation Conference held in Gainesville, Florida, in which I presented the paper entitled "El Niño'southern oscillation impact on nitrogen leaching in north Florida dairy farm systems."

In November, 2002, the 17th Symposium of the International Farming Systems Association was held in Lake Buenavista, Orlando, Florida. Besides of being an assistant in the organization and development of the meeting, I presented a paper entitled Family Dynamics and Household Welfare in Cañete, Peru inside the Farming Systems Knowledge and Information Systems thematic workshop and a Poster entitled People and the Planet: Meeting the Challenges of the New Millennium Interdisciplinary Ecology and Farming Systems at the University of Florida inside the theme Farming Systems Education thematic group.

In September, 2002, I went to Castelvecchio, Pascoli, Italy to present a paper at the International Workshop on Regional Integrated Assessment of Climate Impacts. I presented the paper Assessing the Impact of Long-Term Climate Forecast on North Central Florida Livestock Producers Using Linear Programming.

In December, 2000, I presented a paper at the 27th National Agricultural Education Research Conference, NAERC 2000 held in San Diego, California, USA. The paper was about Extension and Development with the title: A Formative Evaluation of Valle Grande Rural Institute in Cañete, Peru.

A video, in which I presented the paper Farm Problems, Solutions, and Extension Programs for Small Farmers in Cañete, Lima, Peru was prepared and presented in the 16th Annual AIAEE Conference that was held in Arlington Virginia in March-April, 2000.

In October 1999, as a part of a team of six graduate students from the University of Florida, under the guidance of Dr. Peter E. Hildebrand, I presented the paper Modeling Diversity within an Agricultural Community in Peru. This meeting, the 4th Biennial Meeting from the North American Chapter, International Farming Systems Association was held on Guelph, Canada.