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Position: Dr en Geography, MsC Agroecology

Work Address: UR GREEN, TA C 47/F, 34398 Montpellier cedex 5, France

Phone: 56+9.84230202

Personal Website: imas.agropolis.fr

Research Activities: Scientist focusing his research on the study of agricultural biodiversity, (genetic resources among cultivated plants in traditional society) and individual strategies which contribute to the collective conservation of biodiversity. Development of a monitoring and evaluation system for economic and environmental impact in the context of diverse agroecosystems and prospective modelling. Using modelisation (GIS, Role Playing Game and Multi-agents Systems) to increase the confrontation of many points of views and develop new forms of gestion, collective action and coordination of actors to conserve genetic resources in agriculture. Key words research: Genetic resources exchanges, norms and regulations, • Individual and collective strategies, Participatory research, Seed system modelling, Farming system characterization, Biodiversity valorization.

Position: Professor

Work Address: Department of Plant Science, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti

Phone: +2348035063504

Position: Senior Lecturer

Work Address: Department of Educational Studies, P.O. Box 392, Unisa 0003

Research Activities: Traditional Agrobiodioversity use and conservation in southern Africa

Position: Program Leader, Agrobiodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Work Address: Parc Scientifique Agropolis II, 34397 Montpellier Cedex 5, France

Research Activities: I conduct research on how biodiversity can be conserved in agricultural landscapes and what the functional contribution of that conserved biodiversity is to the provision of ecosystem services, both on-farm, and common pool resources.

My work spans the theoretical relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem services, and the applied, working mostly with agricultural landscapes of Mesoamerica and Africa.

I am also interested in the relationship between agrobiodiversity and human nutrition.

Position: Knowledge Systems Engineer

Work Address: Universitetsparken 15

Research Activities: More than 10 years experience on database documentation of plant genetic resources at the Nordic Gene Bank (NGB), Nordic Genetic Resource Center (NordGen) and Bioversity International (CGIAR). Research on agroecology and trait data mining using eco-climatic data to identify economically useful traits for plant breeding and crop research using the Focused Identification of Germplasm Strategy (FIGS) approach. Currently working with Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) for biodiversity informatics at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Position: Head of Genetic Resources and Deputy Director BIGM Program

Work Address: P.O.Box 5466, ICARDA, Aleppo

Phone: +963 21 2213433 

Research Activities: Cereal breeder at INRA-Morocco from 1980-1999 and genetic resources specialist (1999-todate). Areas of research, breeding, pre-breeding, on-farm/in situ conservation of genetic resources, ex situ conservation. I am involved in technical backstopping and training of NARS on all the aspects above.

Position: Director of Research

Work Address: Elizalde 114 y Malecon, Guayaquil

Phone: 5938 5166660 

Research Activities: Genetic Diversity of Sugarcane, Breeding Sugarcane, Project Management, Molecular Markers Application, Andean agrobiodiversity knowledge, Genebank management

Position: Research Associate

Phone: +91-9090982901

Position: Plant Physiologist

Work Address: USDA-ARS-FRRL, Utah State University, Logan, Utah 84322-6300

Phone: 435-797-3067 

Research Activities: I am involved with research related to the ecology and physiology of rangeland plants and reduced-input turf grasses. I conduct research involving the interaction between ecology/physiology and plant breeding and selection related to carbon isotope composition of plants, plant water relations, plant gas exchange, carbon dioxide fluxes, legume nitrogen fixation, and germplasm collection.

Position: Director

Work Address: PO Box 171 – code 1110, Addis Ababa

Phone: +251-(0)116-186774 

Research Activities: Promoting and documenting ecological organic agriculture with smallholder farmers in Africa, particularly the impacts of the making and use of compost, including bioslurry, on crop yields and livelihoods. Also a partner with icipe in the out-scaling of the push-pull management method for controlling stem borers and striga weed.

Position: Reader in Agricultural Ecology

Work Address: John F Niven Building, SAC, Auchincruive, Ayr KA6 5HW

Phone: +44 (0)1292 525 299

Personal Website: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/davy-mccracken/14/461/98a

Research Activities: Dr Davy McCracken is a Reader in Agricultural Ecology and Team Leader of the Resource Economics and Biodiversity team at SAC. Davy’s research focuses on the relationships between European farming systems and wildlife ecology.

Davy joined SAC in 1995 and since then he has managed a variety of projects looking at the relationships between farm management practices, vegetation composition and structure and invertebrates of importance in the diet of farmland birds.

Davy works closely with the European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism (EFNCP), helping them to plan, organise and publish the outputs from various seminars and conferences held across Europe. Through his links with EFNCP, Davy has been involved in the development of the High Nature Value (HNV) farming systems concept and highlighting the impacts of policy on HNV systems has been the focus of much of his work at European level.

Position: Ag Policy Professor

Work Address: Shambat Street, Khartoum North, Box 30

Phone: +249-9-121-75479

Research Activities: Agricultural modeling in the areas of food security, poverty and international trade.

Position: Environmental Researcher & Head of Agricultural Biodiversity Programme of Work

Work Address: 30 Misr Helwan El-Zyrae Road, Maadi, Cairo, Egypt

Research Activities: My research including many responsibilities such as: assessing & monitoring the status and changes of agricultural environment, devising and applying monitoring programs for wild medicinal plants & crops wild relatives, monitoring of research of agro-biodiversity status and agro-ecosystem services in Egypt, and environmental impact assessment of agriculture activities on biodiversity and nature resources inside protected areas of Egypt.

Position: Plant Conservation Consultant

Work Address: Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00153 Roma

Phone: +390657055016 

Research Activities: I am involved in the preparation and research of scientific and technical knowledge in developing genebank standards for non-orthodox seeds. My area of interest includes ecosystem assessment, in areas such as diversity erosion, and in studying issues of resilience and redundancy. I have recently (2011) completed my PhD in assessing diversity in wild and cultivated perennial and annual species of plants at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy. I have been involved in scientific writing and research management for over seven years, working for Bioversity International, the FAO, as wfell as within the University of Edinburgh.

Position: Assistant Professor

Work Address: Via Santa Cecilia 3

Phone: +39.3394574699 

Research Activities: My main research areas involve management of agrobiodiversity and farm management for development of sustainable cropping systems. I mainly work on arable cropping systems but I have done some work on olive groves and vegetable systems as well. Main agroecosystem services provided by agrobiodiversity in these systems are weed control, pest control and soil fertility.

Position: Lecturer

Work Address: Bldv. Marasti, No 59, sector 1, cod 011464

Phone: +40 21 318-0466

Research Activities: I am an Agricultural Engineer, MSc in Organic Agriculture, and PhD in “Agricultural Sciences” (Yield quality of cereals and pseudocereals). I am affiliated with the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Bucharest, in the Department of Crops Sciences. My research interests include: alternative (underutilized) crops (cereals and pseudocereals, grain legumes and oil crops) as sources of biodiversity in Romania, issues of Organic Farming, Food Quality, Certification of Organic Products. My PhD theses has theme: “Research regarding the chemical composition and yield quality at cereals and pseudocereals, under influence of natural and technological factors”.

Position: Professor

Work Address: Borgo XX Giugno 74, 06121 Perugia

Phone: +39 075 5856218

Research Activities: Landrace and crop wild relative conservation (in situ and ex situ systems, monitoring, collection & characterization of germplasm, techniques of germplasm conservation, evaluation of genetic diversity); Population genetics; Ethic topics in biodiversity conservation; and Breeding systems, pulses, neglected crops, forages.

Position: Assistant Professor

Work Address: Division of Soil Science, SKUAST-K, Shalimar, Srinagar-191121, J&k, India
Phone: 91+9469017447
Research Activities: I did research on Balance fertilization, Integrated nutrient management, Potassium, Climate change, Soil Pollution, Soil fertility, Soil Microbiology, Organic farming, and Food security

Position: Principal Scientist (Biodiversity)

Work Address: III Cross Road, Taramani Institutional Area, Chennai – 600113

Phone: 044-65481522

Research Activities: Over the last two decades, I have been closely involved in research and extension in conservation and sustainable use of millet diversity in northern Tamil Nadu. My interest expanded to other parts of Tamil Nadu and Odhisha and covered genetic resources of paddy. Recently I am closely working with groups involved in the conservation of local breeds of cattle and local biodiversity heritage sites.

Work Address: Industrial technology Institute, 363, Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Colombo 7
Research Activities: Biodiversity of medicinal plants, agronomy and post harvest aspects on medicinal plants, plant tissue culture, plant systematics, bioactivity and phytochemicals of medicinal plants.

Position: Program Officier
Work Address: BP 9279 Bamako
Phone: +223.76131273
Personal Website: www.aidemet.org
Research Activities: Medicinal Plants, Community Health and Biodiversity

Position: Research Fellow
Work Address: James Cook University, Faculty of Science and Engineering, School of Marine & Tropical Biology, Agroforestry and Novel Crops Unit. PO Box 6811, Cairns, QLD4870
Phone: Cell. (61) 432275529; Office phone (61) (07) 40421525
Personal Website: http://lamolina.academia.edu/LeoncioJulioUgarteGuerra
Skype: julio.ugarte
Research Activities: Julio Ugarte-Guerra has a Magister Scientiae in Forest and Forest Resources Management and a Masters in Business Administration. He recently served as national representative of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), based in Lima, Peru. As ICRAF Country coordinator he led the research team based in Peru and contributed to the development of ideas and operational plans that are consistent with ICRAF’s strategy and the new CGIAR Consortium, in order to produce International Public Goods.

Position: Senior Research Fellow
Work Address: 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T1Z4

Position: Professor
Work Address: Buesgenweg 2, 37077 Goettingen
Phone: +49-551-393536
Personal Website: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/86730.html
Research Activities: Population Genetics and Ecological Genetics of Forest Trees; Molecular Genetics of Plants; Evolutionary Genetics of Tropical Forest Trees; Breeding of Temperate and Tropical Forest Trees; Sustainable Use of Genetic Resources in Tropical and Temperate Forests; Human Impact on Forest Genetic Resources; Genetic responses of plant populations to global change; Genetics in Silviculture

Position: Scientist
Work Address: BP E5118 Bamako
Phone: +223 20 23 50 00
Personal Website: www.worldagroforestry.org
Research Activities: Species diversity in parklands/agroforestry systems; tree physiology (species/provenances physiological traits in the face of climate variability and change); tree-crops interactions (sharing of growth resources).

Position: Director
Work Address: C-10 Natya Chitra CHS ( kalagram ) Bhusari Colony , Kothrud, Pune
Phone: +91 20 25286952 0r 65235281
Personal Website: www.aerfindia.org
Research Activities: A Ph. D. in ethnobotany from University of Pune , India . Working for conservation of forests and agro biodiversity in western ghats global biodiversity hot spot since 1994.Worked in the north east India in Nagaland and Arunachal pradesh with indigenous communities for documentation of IK and its effective use in natural resource management. (more…)

Position: Senior Research Scientist
Work Address: P.O. Box 40658-00100, Nairobi
Phone: +254 203742131/4
Research Activities: My research entails promotion of taxonomic and conservation knowledge on invertebrate drivers of ecosystem services (pollination, nutrient recycling and water quality)in agroecosystems for improved food security and livelihoods.

Position: Senior Research Fellow
Work Address: CDU, Darwin NT 0909, Australia
Research Activities: Dr Myers completed her PhD in plant eco-physiology at the University of Melbourne in 1985, and worked as a research scientist with the Victorian Department of Agriculture, based at Tatura, from 1985-1990. Since 1992 she has been a researcher at Charles Darwin University (previously Northern Territory University) in Darwin, northern Australia. (more…)

Position: Senior advisor
Work Address: Kastanjelaan 5, Leusden
Personal Website: www.prolinnova.net
Research Activities: Action research in identifying and supporting farmer-led multistakeholder innovation processes in agriculture and natural resource management.

Position: Professor and Extension Specialist
Work Address: One Shields Ave, Davis California
Phone: +1 5307549116
Personal Website: http://groups.ucanr.org/jacksonlab/
Research Activities: Louise Jackson is an ecologist whose expertise is mainly in plant-soil-ecosystem functions, and measuring the role of agrobiodiversity in intensively managed agricultural systems. She is also involved in research that demonstrates mitigation/adaptation tradeoffs for agricultural responses to climate change. Her research spans gene to landscape levels, and increasingly involves science-policy interfaces.

Position: Principal Researcher and Team leader
Work Address: 80-86 Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1X 8NH

Position: PhD Student
Work Address: Stewart Biology Building 1205 Docteur Penfield Montreal, Quebec Canada H3A 1B1
Phone: +1 5143986726
Personal Website: http://biology.mcgill.ca/grad/ignacia/index.html
Research Activities: Since 2007, at the 13th Conference of the Parties in 2007, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, known as REDD+, has become a strategic issue in the climate change and development agendas for the period post 2012. REDD+ has the potential to affect forest dwellers lives in various ways that could include both benefits, by providing environmental services incomes, as well as threats, by restricting access and extraction right to forest dwellers and indigenous peoples to their natural endowment. (more…)

Position: Director, Policy
Work Address: 56 Sparks Street, Ottawa
Research Activities: International policy work, research and communications on ecological agriculture, biodiversity, ecosystem resilience, genetic resources, on-farm conservation and community seed banks, food sovereignty and farmer knowlede systems.

Position: Director, Center for Wetland Studies
Work Address: 227 Nguyen Van Cu, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City
Research Activities: I have been doing research on tropical freshwater wetland ecology, mangrove ecology, invasive alien species management.

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: Senior Landscape Ecologist / Independent Consultant
Research Activities: Integrated landscape conservation and ecosystem management in the Hindu Kush – HImalaya region. Climate change impacts on ecosystems, including agricultural and pastoral systems, carbon sequestration and community based REDD.
Applied geospatial analysis and modeling.

Position: Climate Change Convenor
Work Address: Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Library Road, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RE

Position: Senior Science Advisor
Work Address: 200 Kent Street, Ottawa, Ontario
Phone: +1 6139900288
Research Activities: Areas of activity are the interface between marine fisheries management and conservation of marine biodiversity – Sustainability of fisheries; ecosystem effects of fishing; fisheries, climate change, and food security; integrated ecossytem assessments. Little filed research, with most activity on the applicaiton of science to policy.

Position: Professor
Work Address: Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi 110021
Personal Website: http://people.du.ac.in/~ksrao
Research Activities: Working on the ecosystem rehabilitation

Position: Executive Secretary
Work Address: c/o FAO-AGPM, via delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome
Phone: +39 0657053139
Personal Website: www.globalhort.org
Research Activities: GlobalHort is a facilitating organization for the promotion of horticultural science for development, health and prosperity. Its activities cover:
1. Advocacy and promotion at international and regional levels 2. Networking the various communities of the horticulture value chain 3. Supporting capacity building and knowledge management 4. Strengthening research for development in all innovation processes

Position: Senior Programme Specialist Biodiversity Assessments and Inter-agency Coordination
Work Address: 1 rue Miollis,  75015 Paris, France
Phone: +33 145684090
Research Activities: Biodiversity Science and Policy

Position: Associate Professor
Work Address: Fosswinckelsgate 6, 5007 Bergen
Phone: +47 92091943
Personal Website: http://www.uib.no/persons/Peter.Andersen
Research Activities: Involved in the EU framework 6 programme FOSRIN – Food Security through Ricebean research in India and Nepal, with special interest in human nutrition. In general working on farming system/food system issues in developing countries.

Position: Regional Director East and Southeast Asia
Work Address: P.O. Box 1010 (Kasetsart), Bangkok 10903
Phone: +66 29428686
Research Activities: Production, marketing and consumption of vegetables in urban and periurban areas; urban environmental management; ecological sanitation; community-based food production; asset-based community development

Position: Professor
Work Address: 88 Gunnersbury Avenue, Ealong, London W5 4HA
Phone: +44 2089933426
Research Activities: Principles of ecological sustainability in agricultural land use; Sustainable prodution systems and sustainable production intensification; linking productivity with ecosystem services; Conservation Agriculture; System of Rice Intensification; Food security and climate change; the role of agrobiodiversity in sustainability; integrated crop-livestock systems; policy and institutional support for land stewardship and ecosystem services; water and irrigation science.

Position: Doctoral Candidate
Work Address: P.O. Box399, CORONATION, 3107, South Africa
Phone: +27 724711829
Research Activities: The study investigates the influence of inter-organisational elements that can stimulate Food Retail Companies (FRCs) and Primary Agricultural Co-operatives (PACs) to sustain their partnering capacity for optimal mutual provision of skills, resources, opportunities for innovation, and access to markets that the FRCs and PACs would otherwise be unable to obtain if it were not partnering. (more…)

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

Position: Lecturer
Work Address: BP 526 Abomey-Calavi, Benin
Phone: +229 95958369
Research Activities: ** Phylogeography of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) and its wild relative (C. Colocynthis). ** Biodiversity of traditional vegetables in West Africa. ** Systematics of Cucurbitaceae of West Africa. ** Low cost technology for germplasm conservation in developing countries.

Position: Senior Lecturer
Work Address: Geography, Environment & Population, School of Social Sciences, The University of Adelaide SA 5005 Phone: +61 883034490
Personal Website: www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/douglas.bardsley
Research Activities: My research focusses on responses to environmental risk, and has covered the fields of in situ agrobiodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation, invasive species management, indigenous natural resource management, education and human migration. My research has been undertaken in different places: in Australia, within peri-urban and remote regions; in Europe, within alpine and island regions, and in Nepal, Turkey and Thailand.

Position: Agricultural Economist & Global Team Leader – Consumption
Work Address: P.O. Box 10, Duluti, Arusha
Phone: +255 272553093 / +255 272553102  Ext.14
Research Activities: Leads and coordinates socioeconomic research activities in sub-Saharan Africa and partly in Asia by: assessing opportunities and challenges in production systems, analyzing constraints in the value chain, and analyzing policy in interdisciplinary context. Also has experience in integrated economic-hydrologic optimization modeling of agricultural water use at both the watershed and farm levels. Current research and tasks and interests include: Performance monitoring and evaluation of projects, ex-ante and ex-post impact assessment studies on Horticultural value chains, Rural farming Systems and Livelihoods, Food Security, Poverty & analysis using numerical agricultural household modeling techniques.

Position: Project Officer
Work Address: Chemilil Rd, Parklands, Nairobi, Kenya
Research Activities: Currently involved in:
- Effect of climate change on teff production in Ethiopia (final stage)
- Pollination services in agriculture, Kenya (development stage)

Position: Principal Officer
Work Address: 413 Saint-Jacques St. Suite 800 – Montreal – Quebec – H2Y 1N9
Phone: +1-514-287-7056

Position: Prof.
Research Activities: Domestication of indigenous fruit, nut and medicinal trees for diversified agriculture (agroforestry and multifunctional agriculture)in the tropics.