CHAIR:
Paul L.G. Vlek
Professor, Director
Div. Ecology and Natural Resources
Centre for Development Research (ZEF)
Walter Flex Str. 3
D 53113 Bonn, GERMANY
Tel: +49-228-731866
Fax: +49 228 731889
e-mail: [email protected]
MEMBERS:
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Anthony E. Hall |
Desiree M. Hautea |
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Dunstan Spencer |
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RESOURCE PERSON:
Amir Kassam
Senior Agricultural Research Officer
CGIAR Science Council Secretariat (SDRC)
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
Rome-00100, ITALY
Tel: +39-06 5705 6226
Fax: +39-06 5705 3298
e-mail: [email protected]
Biographical Information
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Name: |
VLEK, Paul (Netherlands) |
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Position: |
Professor and Director, Centre for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany |
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Expertise: |
Soil science, crop nutrition, landscape ecology, research management |
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Education: |
Ph.D. Soil Chemistry and Plant Nutrition, Colorado State University (1976); M.Sc. Soil Chemistry and Tropical Soils, State Agricultural University, Wageningen (1972). |
Experience: Present position since 1998; 1990-1998: Professor and Director, Institute of Agronomy in the Tropics, Georg-August University, Goettingen, Germany; 1986-90: Director, IFDC Africa, Togo. Established a new centre for fertilizer development to serve sub-Saharan Africa with headquarters in Togo; 1976-86: Scientist (1976-83), and Director, Agro-Economic Division (1983-86), IFDC. Developed and periodically reviewed research programmes on fertilizer in the areas of soil science, economics, sociology, and related disciplines, and planned and supervised research projects developed on the basis of these programmes. Consultant to the World Bank in Rwanda, Madagascar and Burundi; Editor-in-Chief, Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems; Associate Editor, Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science as well as Basic and Applied Ecology; Member of Board of Trustees of CIAT (1992-97); Associate Editor of Agronomy Journal, (1981-86); Member of organizing committee of Symposium on "Soil Water and Nitrogen in Mediterranean-Type Environments", Aleppo, Syria (January 1980). Over 100 journal articles, and editor of two books on tropical agriculture.
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HALL, Anthony (USA) |
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Position: |
Professor of Plant Physiology, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside and Crop Ecologist in the California Agricultural Experiment Station. |
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Expertise: |
Crop management, crop physiology and plant breeding. |
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Education: |
National Diploma, Agriculture, Harper Adams Agricultural College, Newport, England (1960); National Diploma, Agricultural Engineering, Essex Institute of Engineering, Chelmsford, England (1961); B.Sc. Irrigation Science (1966), Ph.D. Plant Physiology (1970), University of California, Davis. |
Experience: 1961-63: Extension Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Tanzania; 1966-70: Research Assistant, University of California, Davis; 1970-71: Research Fellow, Carnegie Institution, Stanford, California; 1971: Lecturer, Water Science and Engineering Department, UC Davis; 1971-81: Assistant Professor (1971-76) and Associate Professor (1976-81), Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside. Since 1981: present position. Developing country experience in Anglophone and Francophone Africa. Collaborated in breeding five cowpea varieties used by farmers in Africa and two cowpea varieties for California. Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Field Crops Research. Member of Advisory Panel, Office of Technology Assessment, Congress of the US (1981, 82 and 87). Over 100 scientific articles in refereed journals on crop management, crop improvement, soil-plant-water relationships, irrigation scheduling, drought and heat stress adaptation, particularly of cowpea. Co-editor of a book 'Agriculture in Semi-arid Environments'. Author of a book 'Crop Responses to Environment' (2001). Panel member, 2nd CIMMYT QQR (1982).
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HAUTEA, Desiree Menancio (Philippines) |
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Position: |
Director, Institute of Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines Los Baños (IPB-UPLB); Research Professor and Affiliate Professor of Genetics, Agronomy & Horticulture, Faculty of the U.P. Los Baños (UPLB) & U. P. Mindanao (UPMin); and PHILSURIN Professorial Chair in Agriculture. |
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Education: |
B. Sc. Agriculture, 1972-77, U. Philippines Los Baños; M.Sc. Genetics, 1977-82, U. Philippines Los Baños; Ph.D. (Plant Genetics and Breeding), 1983-87, U. Illinois, Urbana, USA; Post Doctoral (Vigna Biotechnology), 1990-92, U. Minnesota, St. Paul, USA |
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Expertise: |
Plant breeding, molecular biology, biotechnology, plant genetic resources |
Experience: 1988-89: Deputy Course Coordinator, Second Genetics Resources Conservation and Management Training Course, IRGC, IRRI; 1988-89: Collaborative Visiting Scientist, International Rice Germplasm Centre, IRRl; 1990-92: Visiting Scientist, Department of Plant Pathology University of Minnesota, USA; 1996: Visiting Researcher, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences University of Tokyo, JAPAN, JSPS-DOST Joint Cooperation Programme for the Core University System Scientific Research Visit; 1998-2001:Country Coordinator, Asian Maize Biotechnology Network; 2001-2004: Member, Philippines National Seed Industry Council; 2003-2004: Member, Philippines Plant Variety Protection Board; Member of several national and international committees and societies; Author and co-author of more than 25 scientific and technical publications in plant genetics, molecular genetics and breeding, and plant genetic resources.
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SPENCER, Dunstan (Sierra Leone) |
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Position: |
Managing Director & Principal Scientist of "Dunstan Spencer & Associates", Freetown, Sierra Leone |
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Expertise: |
Agricultural economics, animal science, agronomy, women in development, environmental assessment, impact evaluations, poverty alleviation |
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Education: |
Ph.D. Agricultural Economics (1973); M.Sc. Major: Agricultural Economics - Minor: Animal Science, University of Illinois, USA (1969); B.Sc. General Agriculture, with Honours, London University (1966). |
Experience: Present position since 1994;1986-93: Director, Resource and Crop Management Division, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria; 1984-86: Principal Economist, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Sahelian Centre, Niamey, Niger; 1980-84: Director, Development Department, WARDA, Monrovia, Liberia; 1977-79: Senior Agricultural Economist, West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA), Monrovia, Liberia; 1975-77: Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University, USA;1966-77: From Research Assistant to Senior Lecturer, Njala University, College, University of Sierra Leone. Examples of consultancies since 1994: Leader of team engaged by Winrock International to evaluate the African Rural Social Sciences Research Network (1994); Leader of team engaged by the World Bank to evaluate the SPAAR Frameworks for Action research projects in 6 African countries (1995); Leader of team engaged by the World Bank to prepare the Village Infrastructure Project (VIP), for the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Ghana (1996); 1998: Leader of Mid-Term Review of ICIPE. Member of several scientific societies; author of numerous publications dealing with agricultural systems, farming systems and agricultural research. Panel Member of ICARDA EPMR (1999 and 2000), Chair of ISNAR EPMR (2002).
