Aerobiology
Agrochemical safety and residues
Animal health
Beverage crops, spices and oils
Biological and semiochemical control of
pests
Cereals and pulses
Ecotoxicology
Fibre crops
Food quality and safety
Food storage
Forage crops; forage/feed access and strategies
Fruit and vegetables
Genetically modified organisms and biotechnology
Integrated pest management
Livestock production
Low external input farming systems
Microbiology
Migratory Pests
Natural product chemistry
Pastoralism and rangelands
Pesticide legislation
Plant disease control
Post-harvest
systems
Roots and tubers
Urban and peri-urban agriculture
Weeds
Aerobiology
Email: P.J.A.Burt@gre.ac.uk
Biometeorologist. Over 20 years experience in: windborne dispersal of organisms and particulate material through the atmosphere; influence of topography on airflow; micrometeorological monitoring; and aspects of remote sensing applied to pest management and forecasting. Teaching aspects of biology, meteorology and airborne dispersal at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Leader of NRI's MSc and PGDip programmes in Natural Resources. Research student supervision.
Agrochemical safety and residues
Email: J.F.Cooper@gre.ac.uk
Pest management specialist. 30 years experience in crop
protection, especially in control of major vegetable crop
pests. Conducts and manages research to improve safety
and sustainability of pest control, and advises DFID
on this subject. Lectures on Masters courses at Medway,
and delivers training overseas on pest management and
efficient pesticide use. Has worked in many countries,
including Kenya, Yemen, China, India, Egypt, Zimbabwe, and Somalia.
Email: H.M.Dobson@gre.ac.uk
Pest and vector management specialist. 25 years’ experience in project management, research, consultancy and training for poverty reduction, including: IPM in vegetables, tree crops, cotton and cereals; food safety and regulatory compliance; control of locusts, tsetse flies, mosquitoes and blackflies; multi-level participatory training strategies; institutional analysis; project and programme design. Secondments to DFID, FAO and Imperial College London. Has worked in 34 countries in Africa (2 years in Zambia), Asia and the Middle East. Good French and a little Danish.
Animal health
Email: J.Holt@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Resource Modelling. Expertise in disease epidemiology, insect population dynamics, systems approaches, risk analysis and mathematical modelling. 25 years’ research experience. Current interests in risk analysis methodologies for plant quarantine and invasive species, insect-vectored plant virus diseases, insect pest outbreak prediction, and farmer-participatory pest forecasting. Short-term overseas experience in East and Southern Africa, South and South-East Asia and the Caribbean.
Email: J.F.Morton@gre.ac.uk
Professor of Development Anthropology, and Associate Research Director (Social Sciences). Over 25 years experience in applied social research and consultancy for rural development. Specialist in social, institutional and policy aspects of livestock and pastoralist development, including drought management. Lead Author on smallholder and subsistence agriculture for the 2007 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Field experience in numerous African countries (especially in the Horn of Africa), South Asia and Mongolia. Fluent in French, with some Arabic.
Beverage crops, spices and oils
Email: R.J.Hillocks@gre.ac.uk
Integrated crop management specialist, particularly in cotton,
coffee and cassava. Design and implementation of sustainable agricultural
systems for smallholders in Africa. Interested in market access for smallholder commodities. Published on subject of Gm crops for smallholders. Recently managed six crop-protection projects
with national scientists and NGOs
in E & S Africa. 30 years experience (10 with
NRI) of research and training in tropical agriculture, including 10 years long-term
in Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Good knowledge of French; some Spanish and Swahili.
Email: J.E.Orchard@gre.ac.uk
Plant Physiologist/Biochemist. Twenty years experience in biochemistry and physiology of beverage, horticultural and cereal crops with emphasis on their post-harvest management; biochemistry and processing techniques of black tea manufacture; the growth and physiology of cacao and tea. Long-term overseas experience in Brazil, Ecuador, and Kenya, and short-term experience in Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Honduras, Nigeria, Malawi, Ghana, Ethiopia, and Pakistan. Fluent Spanish and fair Portuguese.
Email: K.I.Tomlins@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Food Safety and Quality. Over 20 years’ experience in international project management, research and consultancy. Expertise in post-harvest aspects of agricultural commodities: tea, coffee, cocoa, rice, cassava, sweet potato, soya, fish, fruit, vegetables and street foods. Specialist in sensory evaluation and consumer acceptability. Consultant in cargo inspection and warehouse management. Experience in 21 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America during more than 100 short- and long-term assignments. Author of 90 international peer-reviewed papers and other publications.
Biological and semiochemical control of pests
Email: A.Cork@gre.ac.uk
Professor of Bio-Rational Pest Management, and Head of Agriculture, Health and Environment Group. Has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers resulting from 30 years experience of research to develop and implement
IPM-compatible solutions to crop-pest and disease-vector problems that affect the livelihoods of resource-poor farmers in South Asia, South America and Africa. Recent work on the development of innovation platforms with SMEs, NGOs and Government researchers to commercialize research outputs for the benefit of rice and vegetable farmers in South Asia.
Email: D.Grzywacz@gre.ac.uk
David Grzywacz is a world expert in biological control of tropical insect pests with more than 25 years experience. He has worked on new pest control systems using insect viruses on many crops in developing countries His research has covered all aspects of biopesticides from the initial isolation and evaluation through to mass production and advice on regulation and has worked with research institutes, universities, SMEs and private sector clients in Africa, Asia and South America
Email: D.R.Hall@gre.ac.uk
Professor of Chemical Ecology. Natural products chemist with over 25 years experience in isolation, identification, synthesis, formulation and field application of insect semiochemicals and other natural products for monitoring and control of insect pests. Extensive short-term overseas experience in Asia, Africa and South America. Currently working on pests of coffee, cocoa, potatoes and wheat in developing countries, and horticultural pests in UK and the rest of Europe. Author of over 125 peer-reviewed publications.
Cereals and pulses
Email: T.C.B.Chancellor@gre.ac.uk
Specialist in crop pest management and in capacity-strengthening of agricultural research and training organizations. Twenty-two years experience of research, consultancy and training in pest and disease management, research management, institutional capacity-strengthening, public-private partnerships, and climate change in relation to pests and diseases. Commodity experience includes rice, banana, groundnut and vegetables. Long-term assignments in Ghana, Indonesia and Philippines; short-term missions in a wide range of other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Email: R.W.Gibson@gre.ac.uk
Plant pathologist specializing in plant viruses and their epidemiology. Experience in: control of viruses of temperate crops in UK (potatoes, sugarbeet, grass) and tropical crops in Africa and South America (cassava, maize, sweet potato); provision of training in UK (MSc courses) and overseas in virus detection and diagnosis; and expert PhD research supervision. Successful implementation of overseas projects including multi-partner projects (>US$1M). Field experience in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda (3 years), Kenya, Zambia, South Africa, Jordan, Tunisia, Yemen, Peru, Bolivia
Email: C.P.Haines@gre.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Post-Harvest Technology. Thirty-one years research, teaching and consultancy on ecology and management of pests of food commodities in the tropics, especially: ecology and taxonomy of insects and mites; biological control and integrated pest management; monitoring and identification of storage pests and natural enemies. Five years research and training in Indonesia; field experience elsewhere in South-East Asia, and in Africa and South America.
Email: R.J.Hodges@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Postharvest Entomology. Specialist in the reduction of grain postharvest losses, pest and commodity management of durable commodities in warehouses and shipping. Thirty years research, teaching and consultancy on pest and quality control on-farm, in warehouses and during transport, including: rational use of insecticides and fumigants; storage pest behaviour and ecology, especially of larger grain borer. Long-term experience in Ghana, Mali and Indonesia; field experience in many other countries. Working knowledge of French and Indonesian.
Email: J.Holt@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Resource Modelling. Expertise in disease epidemiology, insect population dynamics, systems approaches, risk analysis and mathematical modelling. 25 years’ research experience. Current interests in risk analysis methodologies for plant quarantine and invasive species, insect-vectored plant virus diseases, insect pest outbreak prediction, and farmer-participatory pest forecasting. Short-term overseas experience in East and Southern Africa, South and South-East Asia and the Caribbean.
Email: C.R.Riches@gre.ac.uk
Weed management and farming systems. 25 years experience in support to smallholder farmers, focusing on weed science and agronomy. Principal areas of expertise are participatory development and promotion of weed control systems, including: low-input weed management; herbicide use and resistance; management of poisonous plants and parasitic weeds; and development and testing of draught-animal implements. Country experience includes: East, Central and Southern Africa; Central America; and South Asia.
Ecotoxicology
Email: J.Holt@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Resource Modelling. Expertise in disease epidemiology, insect population dynamics, systems approaches, risk analysis and mathematical modelling. 25 years’ research experience. Current interests in risk analysis methodologies for plant quarantine and invasive species, insect-vectored plant virus diseases, insect pest outbreak prediction, and farmer-participatory pest forecasting. Short-term overseas experience in East and Southern Africa, South and South-East Asia and the Caribbean.
Fibre crops
Email: R.J.Hillocks@gre.ac.uk
Integrated crop management specialist, particularly in cotton,
coffee and cassava. Design and implementation of sustainable agricultural
systems for smallholders in Africa. Interested in market access for smallholder commodities. Published on subject of Gm crops for smallholders. Recently managed six crop-protection projects
with national scientists and NGOs
in E & S Africa. 30 years experience (10 with
NRI) of research and training in tropical agriculture, including 10 years long-term
in Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Good knowledge of French; some Spanish and Swahili.
Email: D.A.Russell@gre.ac.uk
Crop protection specialist, currently based at CESAR.
16 years research and teaching experience with NRI on
cotton IPM,
insecticide resistance management, pheromone use, crop
and pest modelling, working in East Africa, Egypt, India,
China and Pakistan; previous experience as zoology lecturer
in New Zealand. Currently leading projects on: sustainable
control of cotton pests in India, China and Pakistan (CFC-funded);
and farmer-appropriateness of Bt
cotton in China (EU-funded). Fluent French.
Food quality and safety
Email: R.S.Fuchs@gre.ac.uk
Biochemist and food microbiologist. 19 years post-doctoral experience of project management, research and training. Key expertise includes food safety and quality assurance, and rapid microbiological diagnostic methods. Recently completed 9 years as Head of Programme at the International Foundation for Science based in Sweden. Numerous short-term missions in Asia, the Pacific, and South America. Good Swedish and Polish; working knowledge of French.
Email: A.J.Graffham@gre.ac.uk
Food technologist with 14 years experience in food microbiology, food safety and quality assurance, including: systems for improved national food safety programmes; HACCP systems; laboratory evaluations and reviews of microbiological and pesticide residue analysis in the export horticulture industry; and safety of informally vended foods. Extensive experience of post-harvest processing and marketing of cassava. Has worked in Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Email: L.Nicolaides@gre.ac.uk
Food safety specialist. 35 years working in quality management and food safety, specializing in food bacteriology and mycology, for horticultural produce, fish products, meat products, cereals and pulses. Knowledge of EU food law. Experience in development of new food products, implementation of BS EN ISO9000 series, TQM systems and HACCP, design and operation of food microbiology laboratories (ISO 17025). Overseas experience in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe. Fluent Spanish and Greek.
Email: J.E.Orchard@gre.ac.uk
Plant Physiologist/Biochemist. Twenty years experience in biochemistry and physiology of beverage, horticultural and cereal crops with emphasis on their post-harvest management; biochemistry and processing techniques of black tea manufacture; the growth and physiology of cacao and tea. Long-term overseas experience in Brazil, Ecuador, and Kenya, and short-term experience in Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Honduras, Nigeria, Malawi, Ghana, Ethiopia, and Pakistan. Fluent Spanish and fair Portuguese.
Email: L.Abayomi@gre.ac.uk
Senior Research Fellow. Over ten years experience as a Technologist of perishable crops in the private sector. She has consultancies in the horticulture industry, advising on the management and handling of most crop categories including minimally processed salads and cut flowers.
Further roles include the assessment of analytical techniques within the food chain and the implementation of quality management (HACCP) systems.
Food storage
Email: S.R.Belmain@gre.ac.uk
Applied ecologist with 10 years experience working with scientists and communities in many African and Asian countries, providing PhD supervision, on-the-job training and capacity building. Research interests include small mammal ecology, particularly ecologically-based rodent management. Leadership of multi-disciplinary projects such as Ratzooman (on zoonoses) and Ecorat (on agricultural problems). Further interests include insect-plant interactions, stored-product and timber entomology, and ethnobotanicals (e.g. the SAPP project). More than 50 publications in scientific journals. Fluent in French and Bambara (Mali).
Email: C.P.Haines@gre.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Post-Harvest Technology. Thirty-one years research, teaching and consultancy on ecology and management of pests of food commodities in the tropics, especially: ecology and taxonomy of insects and mites; biological control and integrated pest management; monitoring and identification of storage pests and natural enemies. Five years research and training in Indonesia; field experience elsewhere in South-East Asia, and in Africa and South America.
Email: R.J.Hodges@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Postharvest Entomology. Specialist in the reduction of grain postharvest losses, pest and commodity management of durable commodities in warehouses and shipping. Thirty years research, teaching and consultancy on pest and quality control on-farm, in warehouses and during transport, including: rational use of insecticides and fumigants; storage pest behaviour and ecology, especially of larger grain borer. Long-term experience in Ghana, Mali and Indonesia; field experience in many other countries. Working knowledge of French and Indonesian.
Email: G.E.Onumah@gre.ac.uk
Agricultural economics and development finance. Had over 10 years experience in central banking and rural informal micro-finance, before joining NRI. Experience in commodity trade and finance, including commodity market liberalization in Africa, and institutional frameworks for inventory credit. Managed a project on Warehousing and Inventory Credit in Zambia. Has worked in developing countries on: capacity building for rural finance; urban food supply and distribution policy; and household food security.
Email: D.Rees@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Plant Physiology, and plant biochemist. Twenty-one years research experience in these fields, including: manipulation of photosynthetic mechanisms to improve crop productivity; cultivar selection to reduce post-harvest deterioration of root crops; use of chlorophyll fluorescence for early detection of physiological stress in stored fruit; and effects of organic production practices on post-harvest fruit quality. Long-term overseas experience in Mexico, and field work in East Africa. Fluent Spanish and good French.
Email: T.E.Stathers@gre.ac.uk
Food security/Post-harvest IPM. 15 years experience developing and promoting agricultural technologies and processes in SSA, including inert dusts as grain protectants, and farmer field school experiential learning approach. Recent work has focused more on innovation systems and responsive service provision, multi-stakeholder agricultural adaptation to climate change and variability and urban–rural interdependence. Practical background in multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary teamwork, and use of participatory methodologies. Assignments in Tanzania, Papua New Guinea, Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa.
Email: A.Westby@gre.ac.uk
Director of NRI and Professor of Food Technology. Post-harvest technologist with a specific interest in food security and income generation in developing counties with more than 20 years post-doctoral experience working mainly, though not exclusively, with root and tuber crops on a wide range of issues concerned with handling, processing, marketing, food quality and food safety. Commodity experience includes cassava, sweet potato, yam, horticultural crops, maize, sorghum and legumes. Field experience in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America
Email: L.Abayomi@gre.ac.uk
Senior Research Fellow. Over ten years experience as a Technologist of perishable crops in the private sector. She has consultancies in the horticulture industry, advising on the management and handling of most crop categories including minimally processed salads and cut flowers.
Further roles include the assessment of analytical techniques within the food chain and the implementation of quality management (HACCP) systems.
Forage crops; forage/feed access and strategies
Email: M.A.Conroy@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Rural Livelihoods. Twenty-two years experience in sustainable rural development, including sixteen with NRI. Main specialisms: communication for development; community-based natural resource management (particularly forests); livestock research and development; project M&E and impact assessment; participatory research and development processes (including capacity building); pro-poor agricultural research, innovation and development; sustainable livelihoods. Extensive experience in India and has recently worked in western, eastern and southern Africa. Also experience in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Indonesia and Oman. Working knowledge of Spanish and French.
Email: J.F.Morton@gre.ac.uk
Professor of Development Anthropology, and Associate Research Director (Social Sciences). Over 25 years experience in applied social research and consultancy for rural development. Specialist in social, institutional and policy aspects of livestock and pastoralist development, including drought management. Lead Author on smallholder and subsistence agriculture for the 2007 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Field experience in numerous African countries (especially in the Horn of Africa), South Asia and Mongolia. Fluent in French, with some Arabic.
Fruit and vegetables
Email: J.F.Cooper@gre.ac.uk
Pest management specialist. 30 years experience in crop
protection, especially in control of major vegetable crop
pests. Conducts and manages research to improve safety
and sustainability of pest control, and advises DFID
on this subject. Lectures on Masters courses at Medway,
and delivers training overseas on pest management and
efficient pesticide use. Has worked in many countries,
including Kenya, Yemen, China, India, Egypt, Zimbabwe, and Somalia.
Email: H.C.Coote@gre.ac.uk
Agricultural economist with over 30 years’ experience, especially in agricultural/food marketing and upgrading through distinctiveness, processing and economic development. Projects include: market development for vitamin-A-rich sweet potato varieties in Uganda and Mozambique; IP-value capture in Kenya and Zambia; promoting agribusiness and food safety in the Caribbean. Masters-level course leader on: agricultural and food marketing; corporate social responsibility; natural resources management. Field experience in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, including long-term assignments in Malawi, Mauritius, Papua New Guinea. Excellent French.
Email: H.M.Dobson@gre.ac.uk
Pest and vector management specialist. 25 years’ experience in project management, research, consultancy and training for poverty reduction, including: IPM in vegetables, tree crops, cotton and cereals; food safety and regulatory compliance; control of locusts, tsetse flies, mosquitoes and blackflies; multi-level participatory training strategies; institutional analysis; project and programme design. Secondments to DFID, FAO and Imperial College London. Has worked in 34 countries in Africa (2 years in Zambia), Asia and the Middle East. Good French and a little Danish.
Email: A.J.Graffham@gre.ac.uk
Food technologist with 14 years experience in food microbiology, food safety and quality assurance, including: systems for improved national food safety programmes; HACCP systems; laboratory evaluations and reviews of microbiological and pesticide residue analysis in the export horticulture industry; and safety of informally vended foods. Extensive experience of post-harvest processing and marketing of cassava. Has worked in Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Email: J.E.Orchard@gre.ac.uk
Plant Physiologist/Biochemist. Twenty years experience in biochemistry and physiology of beverage, horticultural and cereal crops with emphasis on their post-harvest management; biochemistry and processing techniques of black tea manufacture; the growth and physiology of cacao and tea. Long-term overseas experience in Brazil, Ecuador, and Kenya, and short-term experience in Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Honduras, Nigeria, Malawi, Ghana, Ethiopia, and Pakistan. Fluent Spanish and fair Portuguese.
Email: D.Rees@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Plant Physiology, and plant biochemist. Twenty-one years research experience in these fields, including: manipulation of photosynthetic mechanisms to improve crop productivity; cultivar selection to reduce post-harvest deterioration of root crops; use of chlorophyll fluorescence for early detection of physiological stress in stored fruit; and effects of organic production practices on post-harvest fruit quality. Long-term overseas experience in Mexico, and field work in East Africa. Fluent Spanish and good French.
Email: A.Westby@gre.ac.uk
Director of NRI and Professor of Food Technology. Post-harvest technologist with a specific interest in food security and income generation in developing counties with more than 20 years post-doctoral experience working mainly, though not exclusively, with root and tuber crops on a wide range of issues concerned with handling, processing, marketing, food quality and food safety. Commodity experience includes cassava, sweet potato, yam, horticultural crops, maize, sorghum and legumes. Field experience in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America
Email: L.Abayomi@gre.ac.uk
Senior Research Fellow. Over ten years experience as a Technologist of perishable crops in the private sector. She has consultancies in the horticulture industry, advising on the management and handling of most crop categories including minimally processed salads and cut flowers.
Further roles include the assessment of analytical techniques within the food chain and the implementation of quality management (HACCP) systems.
Genetically modified organisms and biotechnology
Email: D.Grzywacz@gre.ac.uk
David Grzywacz is a world expert in biological control of tropical insect pests with more than 25 years experience. He has worked on new pest control systems using insect viruses on many crops in developing countries His research has covered all aspects of biopesticides from the initial isolation and evaluation through to mass production and advice on regulation and has worked with research institutes, universities, SMEs and private sector clients in Africa, Asia and South America
Email: S.E.Seal@gre.ac.uk
Reader with 25 years experience in nucleic-acid diagnostics, phylogenetics and next-generation sequencing/transcriptomics. Research emphasis on bacterial wilt (Ralstonia solanacearum); root and tuber crop virology; whiteflies; fish trematodes. Management of >40 projects including PhD supervision (14 students). Consultancy: establishing molecular-diagnostic laboratories, and assessing suitability of GM crops in developing countries. Teaching: molecular diagnostics, plant pathology and GM crops. Field experience: China, Cyprus, France, Kenya, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Fluent Dutch, competent French, basic German.
Integrated pest management
Email: S.R.Belmain@gre.ac.uk
Applied ecologist with 10 years experience working with scientists and communities in many African and Asian countries, providing PhD supervision, on-the-job training and capacity building. Research interests include small mammal ecology, particularly ecologically-based rodent management. Leadership of multi-disciplinary projects such as Ratzooman (on zoonoses) and Ecorat (on agricultural problems). Further interests include insect-plant interactions, stored-product and timber entomology, and ethnobotanicals (e.g. the SAPP project). More than 50 publications in scientific journals. Fluent in French and Bambara (Mali).
Email: J.F.Cooper@gre.ac.uk
Pest management specialist. 30 years experience in crop
protection, especially in control of major vegetable crop
pests. Conducts and manages research to improve safety
and sustainability of pest control, and advises DFID
on this subject. Lectures on Masters courses at Medway,
and delivers training overseas on pest management and
efficient pesticide use. Has worked in many countries,
including Kenya, Yemen, China, India, Egypt, Zimbabwe, and Somalia.
Email: H.M.Dobson@gre.ac.uk
Pest and vector management specialist. 25 years’ experience in project management, research, consultancy and training for poverty reduction, including: IPM in vegetables, tree crops, cotton and cereals; food safety and regulatory compliance; control of locusts, tsetse flies, mosquitoes and blackflies; multi-level participatory training strategies; institutional analysis; project and programme design. Secondments to DFID, FAO and Imperial College London. Has worked in 34 countries in Africa (2 years in Zambia), Asia and the Middle East. Good French and a little Danish.
Email: A.Cork@gre.ac.uk
Professor of Bio-Rational Pest Management, and Head of Agriculture, Health and Environment Group. Has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers resulting from 30 years experience of research to develop and implement
IPM-compatible solutions to crop-pest and disease-vector problems that affect the livelihoods of resource-poor farmers in South Asia, South America and Africa. Recent work on the development of innovation platforms with SMEs, NGOs and Government researchers to commercialize research outputs for the benefit of rice and vegetable farmers in South Asia.
Email: D.Grzywacz@gre.ac.uk
David Grzywacz is a world expert in biological control of tropical insect pests with more than 25 years experience. He has worked on new pest control systems using insect viruses on many crops in developing countries His research has covered all aspects of biopesticides from the initial isolation and evaluation through to mass production and advice on regulation and has worked with research institutes, universities, SMEs and private sector clients in Africa, Asia and South America
Email: C.P.Haines@gre.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Post-Harvest Technology. Thirty-one years research, teaching and consultancy on ecology and management of pests of food commodities in the tropics, especially: ecology and taxonomy of insects and mites; biological control and integrated pest management; monitoring and identification of storage pests and natural enemies. Five years research and training in Indonesia; field experience elsewhere in South-East Asia, and in Africa and South America.
Email: R.J.Hillocks@gre.ac.uk
Integrated crop management specialist, particularly in cotton,
coffee and cassava. Design and implementation of sustainable agricultural
systems for smallholders in Africa. Interested in market access for smallholder commodities. Published on subject of Gm crops for smallholders. Recently managed six crop-protection projects
with national scientists and NGOs
in E & S Africa. 30 years experience (10 with
NRI) of research and training in tropical agriculture, including 10 years long-term
in Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Good knowledge of French; some Spanish and Swahili.
Email: R.J.Hodges@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Postharvest Entomology. Specialist in the reduction of grain postharvest losses, pest and commodity management of durable commodities in warehouses and shipping. Thirty years research, teaching and consultancy on pest and quality control on-farm, in warehouses and during transport, including: rational use of insecticides and fumigants; storage pest behaviour and ecology, especially of larger grain borer. Long-term experience in Ghana, Mali and Indonesia; field experience in many other countries. Working knowledge of French and Indonesian.
Email: J.Holt@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Resource Modelling. Expertise in disease epidemiology, insect population dynamics, systems approaches, risk analysis and mathematical modelling. 25 years’ research experience. Current interests in risk analysis methodologies for plant quarantine and invasive species, insect-vectored plant virus diseases, insect pest outbreak prediction, and farmer-participatory pest forecasting. Short-term overseas experience in East and Southern Africa, South and South-East Asia and the Caribbean.
Email: R.I.Lamboll@gre.ac.uk
Socio-economist. 20 years experience in research, consultancy, facilitation and training relating to agriculture and natural resource management. Expertise includes: livelihoods analysis; stakeholder and institutional analyses; enhancing stakeholder communication, learning and engagement; on-farm research; formal survey and participatory approaches. Long-term experience in Tanzania, Caribbean, Pacific; short-term in Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Uganda and Nepal. Fair Swahili; fluent Bislama. Current focus: capacity strengthening of agricultural innovation systems; climate change responses; agro/wild biodiversity management; governance and service delivery in agriculture.
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Email: D.A.Russell@gre.ac.uk
Crop protection specialist, currently based at CESAR.
16 years research and teaching experience with NRI on
cotton IPM,
insecticide resistance management, pheromone use, crop
and pest modelling, working in East Africa, Egypt, India,
China and Pakistan; previous experience as zoology lecturer
in New Zealand. Currently leading projects on: sustainable
control of cotton pests in India, China and Pakistan (CFC-funded);
and farmer-appropriateness of Bt
cotton in China (EU-funded). Fluent French.
Email: T.E.Stathers@gre.ac.uk
Food security/Post-harvest IPM. 15 years experience developing and promoting agricultural technologies and processes in SSA, including inert dusts as grain protectants, and farmer field school experiential learning approach. Recent work has focused more on innovation systems and responsive service provision, multi-stakeholder agricultural adaptation to climate change and variability and urban–rural interdependence. Practical background in multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary teamwork, and use of participatory methodologies. Assignments in Tanzania, Papua New Guinea, Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa.
Email: P.C.Stevenson@gre.ac.uk
Professor of Plant Chemistry. Over twenty years experience isolating, identifying and elucidating structures of plant chemicals and determining their biological activities. Particular interests in plant pesticides in resource-poor farming in Africa, resistance mechanisms to insects and diseases in crops (e.g., sweetpotato, groundnuts, chickpea, rice) and pollination ecology.
Current funding sources include BBSRC, Science Foundation of Ireland, European Union (ACP S&T) and McKnight Foundation. Holds parallel position at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Extensive field experience in South Asia and Africa.
Livestock production
Email: M.A.Conroy@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Rural Livelihoods. Twenty-two years experience in sustainable rural development, including sixteen with NRI. Main specialisms: communication for development; community-based natural resource management (particularly forests); livestock research and development; project M&E and impact assessment; participatory research and development processes (including capacity building); pro-poor agricultural research, innovation and development; sustainable livelihoods. Extensive experience in India and has recently worked in western, eastern and southern Africa. Also experience in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Indonesia and Oman. Working knowledge of Spanish and French.
Email: J.F.Morton@gre.ac.uk
Professor of Development Anthropology, and Associate Research Director (Social Sciences). Over 25 years experience in applied social research and consultancy for rural development. Specialist in social, institutional and policy aspects of livestock and pastoralist development, including drought management. Lead Author on smallholder and subsistence agriculture for the 2007 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Field experience in numerous African countries (especially in the Horn of Africa), South Asia and Mongolia. Fluent in French, with some Arabic.
Low external input farming systems
Email: B.Pound@gre.ac.uk
Livelihoods and Farming Systems specialist with over 30 years' experience. Started as an agronomist and has steadily widened his experience through farming-systems approaches to sustainable-livelihood development and agricultural innovation systems. Interests include bridging the interfaces between social and natural sciences, and between research and extension. Currently working on: Fairtrade impact assessment; pluralistic extension delivery; rural-livelihoods assessment in Afganistan; and a joint World Bank/EU review of ASARECA.
Email: C.R.Riches@gre.ac.uk
Weed management and farming systems. 25 years experience in support to smallholder farmers, focusing on weed science and agronomy. Principal areas of expertise are participatory development and promotion of weed control systems, including: low-input weed management; herbicide use and resistance; management of poisonous plants and parasitic weeds; and development and testing of draught-animal implements. Country experience includes: East, Central and Southern Africa; Central America; and South Asia.
Microbiology
Email: R.S.Fuchs@gre.ac.uk
Biochemist and food microbiologist. 19 years post-doctoral experience of project management, research and training. Key expertise includes food safety and quality assurance, and rapid microbiological diagnostic methods. Recently completed 9 years as Head of Programme at the International Foundation for Science based in Sweden. Numerous short-term missions in Asia, the Pacific, and South America. Good Swedish and Polish; working knowledge of French.
Email: A.J.Graffham@gre.ac.uk
Food technologist with 14 years experience in food microbiology, food safety and quality assurance, including: systems for improved national food safety programmes; HACCP systems; laboratory evaluations and reviews of microbiological and pesticide residue analysis in the export horticulture industry; and safety of informally vended foods. Extensive experience of post-harvest processing and marketing of cassava. Has worked in Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Email: D.Grzywacz@gre.ac.uk
David Grzywacz is a world expert in biological control of tropical insect pests with more than 25 years experience. He has worked on new pest control systems using insect viruses on many crops in developing countries His research has covered all aspects of biopesticides from the initial isolation and evaluation through to mass production and advice on regulation and has worked with research institutes, universities, SMEs and private sector clients in Africa, Asia and South America
Email: L.Nicolaides@gre.ac.uk
Food safety specialist. 35 years working in quality management and food safety, specializing in food bacteriology and mycology, for horticultural produce, fish products, meat products, cereals and pulses. Knowledge of EU food law. Experience in development of new food products, implementation of BS EN ISO9000 series, TQM systems and HACCP, design and operation of food microbiology laboratories (ISO 17025). Overseas experience in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe. Fluent Spanish and Greek.
Email: A.Westby@gre.ac.uk
Director of NRI and Professor of Food Technology. Post-harvest technologist with a specific interest in food security and income generation in developing counties with more than 20 years post-doctoral experience working mainly, though not exclusively, with root and tuber crops on a wide range of issues concerned with handling, processing, marketing, food quality and food safety. Commodity experience includes cassava, sweet potato, yam, horticultural crops, maize, sorghum and legumes. Field experience in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America
Migratory pests
Email: R.A.Cheke@gre.ac.uk
Pest and vector control entomologist, and ornithologist. Research experience on locust plagues and on control of Simulium blackflies that transmit river blindness (onchocerciasis). Environmental impact assessment of tsetse fly control operations and control of bird pests. Professor of Tropical Zoology of University of Greenwich, and Deputy Programme Leader of MSc in Natural Resources. Postgraduate qualification in higher education. Widespread country experience in East and West and southern Africa. Fluent French.
Email: J.F.Cooper@gre.ac.uk
Pest management specialist. 30 years experience in crop
protection, especially in control of major vegetable crop
pests. Conducts and manages research to improve safety
and sustainability of pest control, and advises DFID
on this subject. Lectures on Masters courses at Medway,
and delivers training overseas on pest management and
efficient pesticide use. Has worked in many countries,
including Kenya, Yemen, China, India, Egypt, Zimbabwe, and Somalia.
Email: H.M.Dobson@gre.ac.uk
Pest and vector management specialist. 25 years’ experience in project management, research, consultancy and training for poverty reduction, including: IPM in vegetables, tree crops, cotton and cereals; food safety and regulatory compliance; control of locusts, tsetse flies, mosquitoes and blackflies; multi-level participatory training strategies; institutional analysis; project and programme design. Secondments to DFID, FAO and Imperial College London. Has worked in 34 countries in Africa (2 years in Zambia), Asia and the Middle East. Good French and a little Danish.
Email: J.Holt@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Resource Modelling. Expertise in disease epidemiology, insect population dynamics, systems approaches, risk analysis and mathematical modelling. 25 years’ research experience. Current interests in risk analysis methodologies for plant quarantine and invasive species, insect-vectored plant virus diseases, insect pest outbreak prediction, and farmer-participatory pest forecasting. Short-term overseas experience in East and Southern Africa, South and South-East Asia and the Caribbean.
Natural product chemistry
Email: A.Cork@gre.ac.uk
Professor of Bio-Rational Pest Management, and Head of Agriculture, Health and Environment Group. Has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers resulting from 30 years experience of research to develop and implement
IPM-compatible solutions to crop-pest and disease-vector problems that affect the livelihoods of resource-poor farmers in South Asia, South America and Africa. Recent work on the development of innovation platforms with SMEs, NGOs and Government researchers to commercialize research outputs for the benefit of rice and vegetable farmers in South Asia.
Email: D.R.Hall@gre.ac.uk
Professor of Chemical Ecology. Natural products chemist with over 25 years experience in isolation, identification, synthesis, formulation and field application of insect semiochemicals and other natural products for monitoring and control of insect pests. Extensive short-term overseas experience in Asia, Africa and South America. Currently working on pests of coffee, cocoa, potatoes and wheat in developing countries, and horticultural pests in UK and the rest of Europe. Author of over 125 peer-reviewed publications.
Email: P.C.Stevenson@gre.ac.uk
Professor of Plant Chemistry. Over twenty years experience isolating, identifying and elucidating structures of plant chemicals and determining their biological activities. Particular interests in plant pesticides in resource-poor farming in Africa, resistance mechanisms to insects and diseases in crops (e.g., sweetpotato, groundnuts, chickpea, rice) and pollination ecology.
Current funding sources include BBSRC, Science Foundation of Ireland, European Union (ACP S&T) and McKnight Foundation. Holds parallel position at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Extensive field experience in South Asia and Africa.
Pastoralism and rangelands
Email: J.F.Morton@gre.ac.uk
Professor of Development Anthropology, and Associate Research Director (Social Sciences). Over 25 years experience in applied social research and consultancy for rural development. Specialist in social, institutional and policy aspects of livestock and pastoralist development, including drought management. Lead Author on smallholder and subsistence agriculture for the 2007 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Field experience in numerous African countries (especially in the Horn of Africa), South Asia and Mongolia. Fluent in French, with some Arabic.
Pesticide legislation
Email: J.F.Cooper@gre.ac.uk
Pest management specialist. 30 years experience in crop
protection, especially in control of major vegetable crop
pests. Conducts and manages research to improve safety
and sustainability of pest control, and advises DFID
on this subject. Lectures on Masters courses at Medway,
and delivers training overseas on pest management and
efficient pesticide use. Has worked in many countries,
including Kenya, Yemen, China, India, Egypt, Zimbabwe, and Somalia.
Plant disease control
Email: T.C.B.Chancellor@gre.ac.uk
Specialist in crop pest management and in capacity-strengthening of agricultural research and training organizations. Twenty-two years experience of research, consultancy and training in pest and disease management, research management, institutional capacity-strengthening, public-private partnerships, and climate change in relation to pests and diseases. Commodity experience includes rice, banana, groundnut and vegetables. Long-term assignments in Ghana, Indonesia and Philippines; short-term missions in a wide range of other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Email: R.W.Gibson@gre.ac.uk
Plant pathologist specializing in plant viruses and their epidemiology. Experience in: control of viruses of temperate crops in UK (potatoes, sugarbeet, grass) and tropical crops in Africa and South America (cassava, maize, sweet potato); provision of training in UK (MSc courses) and overseas in virus detection and diagnosis; and expert PhD research supervision. Successful implementation of overseas projects including multi-partner projects (>US$1M). Field experience in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda (3 years), Kenya, Zambia, South Africa, Jordan, Tunisia, Yemen, Peru, Bolivia
Email: R.J.Hillocks@gre.ac.uk
Integrated crop management specialist, particularly in cotton,
coffee and cassava. Design and implementation of sustainable agricultural
systems for smallholders in Africa. Interested in market access for smallholder commodities. Published on subject of Gm crops for smallholders. Recently managed six crop-protection projects
with national scientists and NGOs
in E & S Africa. 30 years experience (10 with
NRI) of research and training in tropical agriculture, including 10 years long-term
in Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Good knowledge of French; some Spanish and Swahili.
Email: J.Holt@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Resource Modelling. Expertise in disease epidemiology, insect population dynamics, systems approaches, risk analysis and mathematical modelling. 25 years’ research experience. Current interests in risk analysis methodologies for plant quarantine and invasive species, insect-vectored plant virus diseases, insect pest outbreak prediction, and farmer-participatory pest forecasting. Short-term overseas experience in East and Southern Africa, South and South-East Asia and the Caribbean.
Honorary Professorial Research Fellow in Plant Virus Ecology.
Post-harvest systems
Email: C.P.Haines@gre.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Post-Harvest Technology. Thirty-one years research, teaching and consultancy on ecology and management of pests of food commodities in the tropics, especially: ecology and taxonomy of insects and mites; biological control and integrated pest management; monitoring and identification of storage pests and natural enemies. Five years research and training in Indonesia; field experience elsewhere in South-East Asia, and in Africa and South America.
Email: R.J.Hodges@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Postharvest Entomology. Specialist in the reduction of grain postharvest losses, pest and commodity management of durable commodities in warehouses and shipping. Thirty years research, teaching and consultancy on pest and quality control on-farm, in warehouses and during transport, including: rational use of insecticides and fumigants; storage pest behaviour and ecology, especially of larger grain borer. Long-term experience in Ghana, Mali and Indonesia; field experience in many other countries. Working knowledge of French and Indonesian.
Email: U.K.Kleih@gre.ac.uk
Economist. Twenty years experience in project management, agricultural marketing analyses, trade policy, rural non-farm livelihoods, rural transport, market information services, participatory approaches, combinations of qualitative and quantitative survey methods, training, collection and analysis of farm-level data, and food security with a commodity focus on fish, roots and tubers, horticulture, cereals and livestock. Country experience in Africa (9 countries), Asia (4 countries) and Latin America, and long-term experience in Chad. Fluent in German, English and French, with good Spanish.
Email: G.E.Onumah@gre.ac.uk
Agricultural economics and development finance. Had over 10 years experience in central banking and rural informal micro-finance, before joining NRI. Experience in commodity trade and finance, including commodity market liberalization in Africa, and institutional frameworks for inventory credit. Managed a project on Warehousing and Inventory Credit in Zambia. Has worked in developing countries on: capacity building for rural finance; urban food supply and distribution policy; and household food security.
Email: J.E.Orchard@gre.ac.uk
Plant Physiologist/Biochemist. Twenty years experience in biochemistry and physiology of beverage, horticultural and cereal crops with emphasis on their post-harvest management; biochemistry and processing techniques of black tea manufacture; the growth and physiology of cacao and tea. Long-term overseas experience in Brazil, Ecuador, and Kenya, and short-term experience in Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Honduras, Nigeria, Malawi, Ghana, Ethiopia, and Pakistan. Fluent Spanish and fair Portuguese.
Email: A.Westby@gre.ac.uk
Director of NRI and Professor of Food Technology. Post-harvest technologist with a specific interest in food security and income generation in developing counties with more than 20 years post-doctoral experience working mainly, though not exclusively, with root and tuber crops on a wide range of issues concerned with handling, processing, marketing, food quality and food safety. Commodity experience includes cassava, sweet potato, yam, horticultural crops, maize, sorghum and legumes. Field experience in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America
Email: L.Abayomi@gre.ac.uk
Senior Research Fellow. Over ten years experience as a Technologist of perishable crops in the private sector. She has consultancies in the horticulture industry, advising on the management and handling of most crop categories including minimally processed salads and cut flowers.
Further roles include the assessment of analytical techniques within the food chain and the implementation of quality management (HACCP) systems.
Roots and tubers
Email: R.W.Gibson@gre.ac.uk
Plant pathologist specializing in plant viruses and their epidemiology. Experience in: control of viruses of temperate crops in UK (potatoes, sugarbeet, grass) and tropical crops in Africa and South America (cassava, maize, sweet potato); provision of training in UK (MSc courses) and overseas in virus detection and diagnosis; and expert PhD research supervision. Successful implementation of overseas projects including multi-partner projects (>US$1M). Field experience in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda (3 years), Kenya, Zambia, South Africa, Jordan, Tunisia, Yemen, Peru, Bolivia
Email: A.J.Graffham@gre.ac.uk
Food technologist with 14 years experience in food microbiology, food safety and quality assurance, including: systems for improved national food safety programmes; HACCP systems; laboratory evaluations and reviews of microbiological and pesticide residue analysis in the export horticulture industry; and safety of informally vended foods. Extensive experience of post-harvest processing and marketing of cassava. Has worked in Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Email: R.J.Hillocks@gre.ac.uk
Integrated crop management specialist, particularly in cotton,
coffee and cassava. Design and implementation of sustainable agricultural
systems for smallholders in Africa. Interested in market access for smallholder commodities. Published on subject of Gm crops for smallholders. Recently managed six crop-protection projects
with national scientists and NGOs
in E & S Africa. 30 years experience (10 with
NRI) of research and training in tropical agriculture, including 10 years long-term
in Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Good knowledge of French; some Spanish and Swahili.
Email: U.K.Kleih@gre.ac.uk
Economist. Twenty years experience in project management, agricultural marketing analyses, trade policy, rural non-farm livelihoods, rural transport, market information services, participatory approaches, combinations of qualitative and quantitative survey methods, training, collection and analysis of farm-level data, and food security with a commodity focus on fish, roots and tubers, horticulture, cereals and livestock. Country experience in Africa (9 countries), Asia (4 countries) and Latin America, and long-term experience in Chad. Fluent in German, English and French, with good Spanish.
Email: R.I.Lamboll@gre.ac.uk
Socio-economist. 20 years experience in research, consultancy, facilitation and training relating to agriculture and natural resource management. Expertise includes: livelihoods analysis; stakeholder and institutional analyses; enhancing stakeholder communication, learning and engagement; on-farm research; formal survey and participatory approaches. Long-term experience in Tanzania, Caribbean, Pacific; short-term in Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Uganda and Nepal. Fair Swahili; fluent Bislama. Current focus: capacity strengthening of agricultural innovation systems; climate change responses; agro/wild biodiversity management; governance and service delivery in agriculture.
Email: G.E.Onumah@gre.ac.uk
Agricultural economics and development finance. Had over 10 years experience in central banking and rural informal micro-finance, before joining NRI. Experience in commodity trade and finance, including commodity market liberalization in Africa, and institutional frameworks for inventory credit. Managed a project on Warehousing and Inventory Credit in Zambia. Has worked in developing countries on: capacity building for rural finance; urban food supply and distribution policy; and household food security.
Email: D.Rees@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Plant Physiology, and plant biochemist. Twenty-one years research experience in these fields, including: manipulation of photosynthetic mechanisms to improve crop productivity; cultivar selection to reduce post-harvest deterioration of root crops; use of chlorophyll fluorescence for early detection of physiological stress in stored fruit; and effects of organic production practices on post-harvest fruit quality. Long-term overseas experience in Mexico, and field work in East Africa. Fluent Spanish and good French.
Email: K.I.Tomlins@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Food Safety and Quality. Over 20 years’ experience in international project management, research and consultancy. Expertise in post-harvest aspects of agricultural commodities: tea, coffee, cocoa, rice, cassava, sweet potato, soya, fish, fruit, vegetables and street foods. Specialist in sensory evaluation and consumer acceptability. Consultant in cargo inspection and warehouse management. Experience in 21 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America during more than 100 short- and long-term assignments. Author of 90 international peer-reviewed papers and other publications.
Email: A.Westby@gre.ac.uk
Director of NRI and Professor of Food Technology. Post-harvest technologist with a specific interest in food security and income generation in developing counties with more than 20 years post-doctoral experience working mainly, though not exclusively, with root and tuber crops on a wide range of issues concerned with handling, processing, marketing, food quality and food safety. Commodity experience includes cassava, sweet potato, yam, horticultural crops, maize, sorghum and legumes. Field experience in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America
Email: L.Abayomi@gre.ac.uk
Senior Research Fellow. Over ten years experience as a Technologist of perishable crops in the private sector. She has consultancies in the horticulture industry, advising on the management and handling of most crop categories including minimally processed salads and cut flowers.
Further roles include the assessment of analytical techniques within the food chain and the implementation of quality management (HACCP) systems.
Urban and peri-urban agriculture
Email: J.F.Cooper@gre.ac.uk
Pest management specialist. 30 years experience in crop
protection, especially in control of major vegetable crop
pests. Conducts and manages research to improve safety
and sustainability of pest control, and advises DFID
on this subject. Lectures on Masters courses at Medway,
and delivers training overseas on pest management and
efficient pesticide use. Has worked in many countries,
including Kenya, Yemen, China, India, Egypt, Zimbabwe, and Somalia.
Email: D.Grzywacz@gre.ac.uk
David Grzywacz is a world expert in biological control of tropical insect pests with more than 25 years experience. He has worked on new pest control systems using insect viruses on many crops in developing countries His research has covered all aspects of biopesticides from the initial isolation and evaluation through to mass production and advice on regulation and has worked with research institutes, universities, SMEs and private sector clients in Africa, Asia and South America
Email: A.M.Martin@gre.ac.uk
Director of Programme Development and Social and Institutional Development Specialist. Over 35 years experience in international development and research relating to poverty, livelihoods and natural resources. Skills in: project management; team leadership; monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment; gender and value chains; impacts of certification/labelling schemes; institutional development and capacity building; participatory methodologies; agricultural policy and institutions; Long-term experience in Sudan and Syria; short-term missions in 20 other countries in Africa, Asia and South America. Good Arabic and French.
Email: G.E.Onumah@gre.ac.uk
Agricultural economics and development finance. Had over 10 years experience in central banking and rural informal micro-finance, before joining NRI. Experience in commodity trade and finance, including commodity market liberalization in Africa, and institutional frameworks for inventory credit. Managed a project on Warehousing and Inventory Credit in Zambia. Has worked in developing countries on: capacity building for rural finance; urban food supply and distribution policy; and household food security.
Email: J.E.Orchard@gre.ac.uk
Plant Physiologist/Biochemist. Twenty years experience in biochemistry and physiology of beverage, horticultural and cereal crops with emphasis on their post-harvest management; biochemistry and processing techniques of black tea manufacture; the growth and physiology of cacao and tea. Long-term overseas experience in Brazil, Ecuador, and Kenya, and short-term experience in Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Honduras, Nigeria, Malawi, Ghana, Ethiopia, and Pakistan. Fluent Spanish and fair Portuguese.
Weeds
Email: C.R.Riches@gre.ac.uk
Weed management and farming systems. 25 years experience in support to smallholder farmers, focusing on weed science and agronomy. Principal areas of expertise are participatory development and promotion of weed control systems, including: low-input weed management; herbicide use and resistance; management of poisonous plants and parasitic weeds; and development and testing of draught-animal implements. Country experience includes: East, Central and Southern Africa; Central America; and South Asia.
Further Information
Prof Andrew Westby, Director, Food Technologist
a.westby@gre.ac.uk Work +44 (0)1634 88 3478 Fax +44 (0)1634 88 3386
