Email: T.E.Stathers@gre.ac.uk
Post-harvest IPM specialist. Over 12 years experience developing and promoting IPM technologies, including: inert dusts as grain protectants; use of farmer field school approach; cultural methods; entomopathogenic fungi; pheromones; natural enemies; and resistant cultivars. Recent work has focused on innovation systems, access to information, and service provision. Practical background in multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary teamwork, and use of participatory methodologies to identify and manage agricultural needs in disaggregated rural communities. Assignments in Tanzania, Papua New Guinea, Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa.