Platform Database

Position: Programme Advisor
Work Address: 220 East 42nd St, Daily News Building, 21st Floor, New York 10017
Phone: +1 6467814387
Personal Website: http://sgp.undp.org/
Research Activities: As biodiversity specialist for the GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP), Terence Hay-Edie’s prime responsibilities are to keep track of the programme portfolio in the biodiversity focal area; contribute to the overall SGP knowledge management and impact assessment systems; and to provide technical assistance and backstopping to SGP country programmes regarding biodiversity conservation and sustainable use approaches, protected area management, traditional knowledge and access and benefit-sharing agreements, as well as projects relating to indigenous peoples. (more…)

Position: Secretary, International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
Work Address: Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 1 – 00153 Rome
Phone: +39 0657053441
Research Activities: Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Intellectual Property Rights, Access and Benefit-sharing, Farmers’ Rights

Position: advisor on genetic resources and food security
Work Address: 676 W. Pullman Rd. #303, Moscow, Idaho 83843
Research Activities: David Williams es un etnobotánico especializado en el origen, domesticación, diversificación y diseminación de las plantas cultivadas, y el papel preponderante de los agricultores tradicionales en dichos procesos, con enfoque en los cultivos nativos a las Américas. El Dr. Williams ha hecho extensivas investigaciones de campo en México, Guatemala, Guyana, Ecuador, Perú, Bolivia, Brasil, Paraguay y Argentina, y ha sido activo en promover la colaboración internacional y regional en la conservación y uso de los recursos fitogenéticos.

Position: Senior Scientist
Work Address: Via dei Tre Denari, 472, 00057 Fiumicino Rome
Phone: +39 066118 267

Position: Research scientist
Work Address: UMR 5175 – CEFE 1919 route de Mende 34293 Montpellier Cedex5
Personal Website: http://www.cefe.cnrs.fr/ibc/staff/Sophie_Caillon.htm
Research Activities: My research concerns two subjects: the interactions between societies and their environment, and the local management of agrobiodiversity. I am analysing how both components of the concept of Biodiversity – the cultural and biological diversity – interact, and how they modify the adaptation potential of societies that have to deal with quicker and more global changes. In my past research, I hypothesised that the social organisation found in a village could inform the biological structuration of plants (from landscape to gene level).

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Position: Scientist
Work Address: Dr. U.M Chandrashekara, Head, Kerala Forest Research Institute Sub Centre, Nilmabur, Chandakunnu P.O. 679342, Kerala State
Research Activities: Working on a) aboveground and belowground biodiversity in homeagarden agroforestry system. b)Management of trees in agroforestry system c) distribution and nutritional value of edible non-crop plants in agrorforestry systems