Karl and Sara Cavallo recently received the U.S. Borlaug Fellows in Global Food Security graduate research grant for 2016-2017 for Sara’s Doctoral Research “Linking Banana Xanthomonas Wilt and Agro-ecological Intensification to Food Practices in Kabarole, Uganda.” Sara will be in the field this year tracing networks of farmers, scientists, and agricultural extension agents from Fort Portal, Uganda to Montpellier, France in order to understand how a certain banana disease, banana Xanthomonas wilt, and associated mitigation strategies have reshaped agri-food systems and knowledge networks.