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Seattle, Washington, United States

Constructing questions to train an AI.

Rome, Italy And West Africa

Senior Technical Officer involved in the design, seeking funding and project management of a regional Agricultural Sustainable Production Intensification program in sub-Saharan Africa based on a community-based educational approach called "Farmer Field Schools" (FFS). Focal areas included integrated pest management, integrated soil fertility management, improved seed systems, and cropping system diversification. Systems included rice, vegetables, cotton and a host of minor crops; with support… Show more Senior Technical Officer involved in the design, seeking funding and project management of a regional Agricultural Sustainable Production Intensification program in sub-Saharan Africa based on a community-based educational approach called "Farmer Field Schools" (FFS). Focal areas included integrated pest management, integrated soil fertility management, improved seed systems, and cropping system diversification. Systems included rice, vegetables, cotton and a host of minor crops; with support to marketing and value chains. Funding sources included GEF projects on Climate Change Adaptation that brought in dryland cereal and agropastoral systems. Provided technical support to the Organization on agroecology and Farmer Field Schools on multiple continents. Show less

Indonesia

Headed a team in designing and executing a five-year ecological research program for tropical irrigated rice ecosystems. Trained ten full-time scientific staff, developed research and training collections, integrated research results into a large-scale farmer-training program, and developed two prototype village-level Action Research laboratories to facilitate research by farmers in chronic pest problem locations. Analyzed ecological data and published several papers in high-impact professional… Show more Headed a team in designing and executing a five-year ecological research program for tropical irrigated rice ecosystems. Trained ten full-time scientific staff, developed research and training collections, integrated research results into a large-scale farmer-training program, and developed two prototype village-level Action Research laboratories to facilitate research by farmers in chronic pest problem locations. Analyzed ecological data and published several papers in high-impact professional journals. Show less

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecology, Entomology, Agriculture

Studied the invasion dynamics of the Variegated Leafhopper, Eurythroneura variabilis, in California vineyards. Published the first.

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