Stay tuned for a new project involving CASP working with the Russian organic livestock industry.

Dr. Sorin Chiru, General Director of the Romanian national Potato and Sugar Beet Institute visited CASP in Prince Edward Island. During his visit, he met with CASP’s Executive Committee, toured potato research, production, processing, and potato marketing sites in order to assess goods, services, and technologies that may be helpful in upgrading and expanding the Romanian potato industry. CASP and the Romanian Potato Institute are collaborating on a number of Romanian potato and livestock initiatives.

CASP Director and Executive Committee member Allan Parker is President of the World Potato Congress. WPC is dedicated to supporting the global growth and development of the potato by bringing together the broad potato industry represented by both developing and developed countries.

The 7th World Potato Congress was held in 2009 in Christchurch, New Zealand, with more than 550 people from 50 countries attending. Pictured here is Allan Parker (right) at the Congress.

CASP’s President, Douglas MacArthur, is now a member of the Governing Council (Board of Directors) of Canada’s National Research Council. NRC is the Government of Canada’s premier organization for research and development. NRC comprises some 20 institutes and national programs.

CASP is becoming increasingly active in Eastern Europe. For the past several years, CASP project activities in Eastern Europe were limited to Russia and Serbia. Now, CASP is Focusing on Southeast Europe and plans to undertake a variety of project activities in the Region.

Recently, Victor Petrescu was appointed as CASP’s Director of Operations for Southeast Europe. Now headquartered in Bucharest, Romania, Victor has worked with CASP since the organization began. His prior posting was as the on-site, project co-director for Master Plan project for Ampara District where he worked in eastern Sri Lanka for 18 months. Victor is an experienced economist with years of experience in international development projects in countries around the globe.