Czech (Martin) Conroy
Email: M.A.Conroy@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Rural Livelihoods. Twenty-two years experience in sustainable rural development, including fifteen with NRI. Main specialisms: communication for development; community-based natural resource management (particularly forests); livestock research and development; project M&E; participatory research and development processes (including capacity building); pro-poor agricultural research, innovation and development; sustainable livelihoods. Has recently undertaken consultancies on rural livelihoods in Bangladesh and India. Has also worked in western, eastern and southern Africa, Bolivia, Brazil, Indonesia and Oman. Working knowledge of Spanish and French.

Dr John Holt
Email: J.G.Holt@gre.ac.uk
Expertise in mathematical modelling, statistical analysis, disease epidemiology, insect population dynamics, and systems approaches. 21 years research experience in these areas. Current interests in: invasive species risk assessment; insect-vectored plant virus diseases; insect pest outbreak prediction; farmer-participatory pest forecasting; and epidemiology of zoonotic diseases vectored by rodents. Short-term overseas experience in East and Southern Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean.

Prof. John Morton
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.

Dr Stephen Torr
Email: S.Torr@gre.ac.uk
Control of veterinary and medical insect pests. Over 25 years experience in research, development and field application of technologies for controlling insect pests of veterinary and medical importance. Current interests include: use of insecticide-treated cattle to control tsetse, ticks and mosquitoes; improved methods for controlling and monitoring midges and the development of artificial baits to control tsetse-transmitted sleeping sickness. Extensive overseas experience in Africa, including eight years on attachment to the Zimbabwe Department of Veterinary Services as a tsetse ecologist.

Dr Rory Hillocks
Email: R.J.Hillocks@gre.ac.uk
Plant pathologist and integrated crop management specialist, particularly in cotton, coffee and cassava. Expertise in design and implementation of sustainable agricultural systems for smallholders in Africa. Interested in crop protection for organic crops. Recently managed six crop-protection projects with national scientists and NGOs in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique and Malawi. 27 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.

Dr John Orchard
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.

Keith Tomlins
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 cargo inspection in shipping and warehouse management. Expert in sensory evaluation and consumer acceptability. Commodity experience includes tea, coffee, cocoa, rice,cassava, sweet potato, soya, fish, fruit, vegetables, street foods. Professional experience in 17 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America during more than 70 short- and long-term assignments. Has authored 35 international peer-reviewed papers, and 55 other publications and reports.

Prof. Alan Cork
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.

David Grzywacz
Email: D.Grzywacz@gre.ac.uk
Insect pathologist; has 20 years experience in research and development of biological pesticides. A specialist in insect viruses, he has researched or worked on all aspects of biological pesticide development, covering: initial isolation of agents; pathogenicity and genetics; laboratory and field evaluation; field ecology; production and quality control; training and plant design; registration; and commercialization. Has extensive field experience in Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Benin, India, Nepal, Thailand and Bolivia.

Prof. David Hall
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.

Jonathan Coulter
Email: J.P.Coulter@gre.ac.uk
Agricultural marketing economist. Over 27 years experience in marketing and food security policy, product development, technology transfer, and project appraisal, planning and management, with substantial team leadership experience. Authority on implementation of agricultural market reform and development of warehouse-receipt and inventory-credit systems. Country experience includes: Africa (18 countries); South Asia (3 countries); Southeast Asia (3 countries); South and Central America (8 countries); and Japan. Long-term experience in Honduras and Ecuador. Fluent in Spanish and French; Portuguese good.

Dr Richard Gibson
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); providing training in UK (MSc courses) and overseas on virus detection and diagnosis; and PhD research supervision. Successful implementation of overseas projects, including major (>US$1M) multi-partner ones. Field experience in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, South Africa, Jordan, Tunisia, Yemen, Peru, Bolivia.

Prof. Chris Haines
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.

Dr Rick Hodges
Email: R.J.Hodges@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Post-Harvest Entomology. 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. Active in co-ordination of European donor interests in agricultural research for development. Long-term experience in Ghana, Mali and Indonesia; field experience in many other countries. Working knowledge of French and Indonesian.

Dr John Holt
Email: J.G.Holt@gre.ac.uk
Expertise in mathematical modelling, statistical analysis, disease epidemiology, insect population dynamics, and systems approaches. 21 years research experience in these areas. Current interests in: invasive species risk assessment; insect-vectored plant virus diseases; insect pest outbreak prediction; farmer-participatory pest forecasting; and epidemiology of zoonotic diseases vectored by rodents. Short-term overseas experience in East and Southern Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean.

Dr Charlie Riches
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.

Dr John Holt
Email: J.G.Holt@gre.ac.uk
Expertise in mathematical modelling, statistical analysis, disease epidemiology, insect population dynamics, and systems approaches. 21 years research experience in these areas. Current interests in: invasive species risk assessment; insect-vectored plant virus diseases; insect pest outbreak prediction; farmer-participatory pest forecasting; and epidemiology of zoonotic diseases vectored by rodents. Short-term overseas experience in East and Southern Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean.

Jonathan Coulter
Email: J.P.Coulter@gre.ac.uk
Agricultural marketing economist. Over 27 years experience in marketing and food security policy, product development, technology transfer, and project appraisal, planning and management, with substantial team leadership experience. Authority on implementation of agricultural market reform and development of warehouse-receipt and inventory-credit systems. Country experience includes: Africa (18 countries); South Asia (3 countries); Southeast Asia (3 countries); South and Central America (8 countries); and Japan. Long-term experience in Honduras and Ecuador. Fluent in Spanish and French; Portuguese good.

Dr Rory Hillocks
Email: R.J.Hillocks@gre.ac.uk
Plant pathologist and integrated crop management specialist, particularly in cotton, coffee and cassava. Expertise in design and implementation of sustainable agricultural systems for smallholders in Africa. Interested in crop protection for organic crops. Recently managed six crop-protection projects with national scientists and NGOs in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique and Malawi. 27 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.

Dr Derek Russell
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.

Ruth Butterworth
Email: R.R.Butterworth@gre.ac.uk
Economist, specializing in socio-economics and rural livelihoods, rural development and agricultural markets. Extensive knowledge of rural development research approaches, techniques and analysis. Has knowledge of establishing warehouse receipt systems and market information systems, enabling smallholder market access, and regenerating local economies in post-conflict areas. Experienced in project planning, implementation and management. In-country experience includes Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, India, and Zimbabwe. Speaks fluent English and Shona (mother tongue), basic French and Portuguese.

Linda Nicolaides
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.

Dr John Orchard
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.

Dr Steve Belmain
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).

Jonathan Coulter
Email: J.P.Coulter@gre.ac.uk
Agricultural marketing economist. Over 27 years experience in marketing and food security policy, product development, technology transfer, and project appraisal, planning and management, with substantial team leadership experience. Authority on implementation of agricultural market reform and development of warehouse-receipt and inventory-credit systems. Country experience includes: Africa (18 countries); South Asia (3 countries); Southeast Asia (3 countries); South and Central America (8 countries); and Japan. Long-term experience in Honduras and Ecuador. Fluent in Spanish and French; Portuguese good.

Prof. Chris Haines
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.

Dr Rick Hodges
Email: R.J.Hodges@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Post-Harvest Entomology. 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. Active in co-ordination of European donor interests in agricultural research for development. Long-term experience in Ghana, Mali and Indonesia; field experience in many other countries. Working knowledge of French and Indonesian.

Dr Gideon Onumah
Email: G.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.

Dr Debbie Rees
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.

Tanya Stathers
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.

Prof. Andrew Westby
Email: A.Westby@gre.ac.uk
Professor of Food Technology and NRI's Director of Research and Enterprise. Post-harvest technologist with 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.

Czech (Martin) Conroy
Email: M.A.Conroy@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Rural Livelihoods. Twenty-two years experience in sustainable rural development, including fifteen with NRI. Main specialisms: communication for development; community-based natural resource management (particularly forests); livestock research and development; project M&E; participatory research and development processes (including capacity building); pro-poor agricultural research, innovation and development; sustainable livelihoods. Has recently undertaken consultancies on rural livelihoods in Bangladesh and India. Has also worked in western, eastern and southern Africa, Bolivia, Brazil, Indonesia and Oman. Working knowledge of Spanish and French.

Prof. John Morton
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.

Ruth Butterworth
Email: R.R.Butterworth@gre.ac.uk
Economist, specializing in socio-economics and rural livelihoods, rural development and agricultural markets. Extensive knowledge of rural development research approaches, techniques and analysis. Has knowledge of establishing warehouse receipt systems and market information systems, enabling smallholder market access, and regenerating local economies in post-conflict areas. Experienced in project planning, implementation and management. In-country experience includes Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, India, and Zimbabwe. Speaks fluent English and Shona (mother tongue), basic French and Portuguese.

Jerry Cooper
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.

Claire Coote
Email: H.C.Coote@gre.ac.uk
Agricultural economist with 30 years experience. Recent work has focused on research and technical assistance in agricultural marketing in Africa: understanding marketing constraints faced by smallholder farmers; conceptualizing ways to facilitate widespread marketing of a nutrient-rich sweet potato in Uganda and Mozambique; addressing market access, food quality and safety issues through development of a horticultural code of practice for Mauritius; and understanding constraints to exports of high-value produce from Mozambique. Long-term experience in Malawi, Mauritius and Papua New Guinea.

Dr John Orchard
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.

Dr Debbie Rees
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.

Prof. Andrew Westby
Email: A.Westby@gre.ac.uk
Professor of Food Technology and NRI's Director of Research and Enterprise. Post-harvest technologist with 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.

David Grzywacz
Email: D.Grzywacz@gre.ac.uk
Insect pathologist; has 20 years experience in research and development of biological pesticides. A specialist in insect viruses, he has researched or worked on all aspects of biological pesticide development, covering: initial isolation of agents; pathogenicity and genetics; laboratory and field evaluation; field ecology; production and quality control; training and plant design; registration; and commercialization. Has extensive field experience in Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Benin, India, Nepal, Thailand and Bolivia.

Dr Steve Belmain
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).

Jerry Cooper
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.

Prof. Alan Cork
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.

David Grzywacz
Email: D.Grzywacz@gre.ac.uk
Insect pathologist; has 20 years experience in research and development of biological pesticides. A specialist in insect viruses, he has researched or worked on all aspects of biological pesticide development, covering: initial isolation of agents; pathogenicity and genetics; laboratory and field evaluation; field ecology; production and quality control; training and plant design; registration; and commercialization. Has extensive field experience in Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Benin, India, Nepal, Thailand and Bolivia.

Prof. Chris Haines
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.

Dr Rory Hillocks
Email: R.J.Hillocks@gre.ac.uk
Plant pathologist and integrated crop management specialist, particularly in cotton, coffee and cassava. Expertise in design and implementation of sustainable agricultural systems for smallholders in Africa. Interested in crop protection for organic crops. Recently managed six crop-protection projects with national scientists and NGOs in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique and Malawi. 27 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.

Dr Rick Hodges
Email: R.J.Hodges@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Post-Harvest Entomology. 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. Active in co-ordination of European donor interests in agricultural research for development. Long-term experience in Ghana, Mali and Indonesia; field experience in many other countries. Working knowledge of French and Indonesian.

Dr John Holt
Email: J.G.Holt@gre.ac.uk
Expertise in mathematical modelling, statistical analysis, disease epidemiology, insect population dynamics, and systems approaches. 21 years research experience in these areas. Current interests in: invasive species risk assessment; insect-vectored plant virus diseases; insect pest outbreak prediction; farmer-participatory pest forecasting; and epidemiology of zoonotic diseases vectored by rodents. Short-term overseas experience in East and Southern Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean.

Richard Lamboll
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.

Dr Alastair Orr
Email: A.W.Orr@gre.ac.uk
Agricultural economist with 16 years field experience in support of resource-poor farmers in Asia and Africa. Has carried out: rice research and policy work in the Philippines and Bangladesh; and an analytical assessment of smallholder agriculture in Malawi. Current work includes poverty-focused projects in India, Bangladesh, Uganda, and Malawi. Has published widely on IPM, household food security, and development strategies for smallholder farmers.

Dr Derek Russell
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.

Tanya Stathers
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.

Dr Philip Stevenson
Email: P.C.Stevenson@gre.ac.uk
Phytochemist: Reader in Plant Chemistry. Over 15 years in isolation, identification and structural elucidation of plant chemicals, and in implementation of IPM for crop production by poor farmers. Current interests: resistance mechanisms in sweet potato to Cylas weevils; and optimizing pesticidal plant use by poor farmers in Southern Africa (SAPP project). Holds post at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Extensive field experience in South Asia and Africa.

Dr Alistair Sutherland
Email: A.J.Sutherland@gre.ac.uk
Applied anthropologist. Over 20 years in rural development: institutionalizing participatory research and gender mainstreaming in agricultural research and extension; R&D policy and institutional analysis; training in social development concepts and tools. Current focus: evaluation research; capacity building in performance management; research promotional strategies for less-developed rural areas. Experience in UK and in eight countries in Southern and Eastern Africa. Bantu language knowledge includes Swahili, Tswana, Nyanja and Shona.

Czech (Martin) Conroy
Email: M.A.Conroy@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Rural Livelihoods. Twenty-two years experience in sustainable rural development, including fifteen with NRI. Main specialisms: communication for development; community-based natural resource management (particularly forests); livestock research and development; project M&E; participatory research and development processes (including capacity building); pro-poor agricultural research, innovation and development; sustainable livelihoods. Has recently undertaken consultancies on rural livelihoods in Bangladesh and India. Has also worked in western, eastern and southern Africa, Bolivia, Brazil, Indonesia and Oman. Working knowledge of Spanish and French.

Prof. John Morton
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.

Barry Pound
Email: B.Pound@gre.ac.uk
Livelihoods and Farming Systems specialist. Starting as an agronomist in 1975, has steadily widened his experience through farming systems approaches to sustainable livelihood development. Interests include bridging the interfaces between social and natural sciences, and between research and extension. Currently working on: land reform projects in South Africa; privatized extension delivery in Uganda; knowledge transfer in the UK; and a joint NRI/CGIAR book on participatory natural resource management.

Dr Charles Riches
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.

David Grzywacz
Email: D.Grzywacz@gre.ac.uk
Insect pathologist; has 20 years experience in research and development of biological pesticides. A specialist in insect viruses, he has researched or worked on all aspects of biological pesticide development, covering: initial isolation of agents; pathogenicity and genetics; laboratory and field evaluation; field ecology; production and quality control; training and plant design; registration; and commercialization. Has extensive field experience in Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Benin, India, Nepal, Thailand and Bolivia.

Linda Nicolaides
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.

Prof. Andrew Westby
Email: A.Westby@gre.ac.uk
Professor of Food Technology and NRI's Director of Research and Enterprise. Post-harvest technologist with 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.

Prof. Robert Cheke
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.

Jerry Cooper
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.

Dr John Holt
Email: J.G.Holt@gre.ac.uk
Expertise in mathematical modelling, statistical analysis, disease epidemiology, insect population dynamics, and systems approaches. 21 years research experience in these areas. Current interests in: invasive species risk assessment; insect-vectored plant virus diseases; insect pest outbreak prediction; farmer-participatory pest forecasting; and epidemiology of zoonotic diseases vectored by rodents. Short-term overseas experience in East and Southern Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean.

Prof. Alan Cork
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.

Prof. David Hall
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.

Dr Philip Stevenson
Email: P.C.Stevenson@gre.ac.uk
Phytochemist: Reader in Plant Chemistry. Over 15 years in isolation, identification and structural elucidation of plant chemicals, and in implementation of IPM for crop production by poor farmers. Current interests: resistance mechanisms in sweet potato to Cylas weevils; and optimizing pesticidal plant use by poor farmers in Southern Africa (SAPP project). Holds post at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Extensive field experience in South Asia and Africa.

Prof. John Morton
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.

Jerry Cooper
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.

Dr Richard Gibson
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); providing training in UK (MSc courses) and overseas on virus detection and diagnosis; and PhD research supervision. Successful implementation of overseas projects, including major (>US$1M) multi-partner ones. Field experience in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, South Africa, Jordan, Tunisia, Yemen, Peru, Bolivia.

Dr Rory Hillocks
Email: R.J.Hillocks@gre.ac.uk
Plant pathologist and integrated crop management specialist, particularly in cotton, coffee and cassava. Expertise in design and implementation of sustainable agricultural systems for smallholders in Africa. Interested in crop protection for organic crops. Recently managed six crop-protection projects with national scientists and NGOs in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique and Malawi. 27 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.

Dr John Holt
Email: J.G.Holt@gre.ac.uk
Expertise in mathematical modelling, statistical analysis, disease epidemiology, insect population dynamics, and systems approaches. 21 years research experience in these areas. Current interests in: invasive species risk assessment; insect-vectored plant virus diseases; insect pest outbreak prediction; farmer-participatory pest forecasting; and epidemiology of zoonotic diseases vectored by rodents. Short-term overseas experience in East and Southern Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean.

Dr Mike Thresh
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Ruth Butterworth
Email: R.R.Butterworth@gre.ac.uk
Economist, specializing in socio-economics and rural livelihoods, rural development and agricultural markets. Extensive knowledge of rural development research approaches, techniques and analysis. Has knowledge of establishing warehouse receipt systems and market information systems, enabling smallholder market access, and regenerating local economies in post-conflict areas. Experienced in project planning, implementation and management. In-country experience includes Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, India, and Zimbabwe. Speaks fluent English and Shona (mother tongue), basic French and Portuguese.

Jonathan Coulter
Email: J.P.Coulter@gre.ac.uk
Agricultural marketing economist. Over 27 years experience in marketing and food security policy, product development, technology transfer, and project appraisal, planning and management, with substantial team leadership experience. Authority on implementation of agricultural market reform and development of warehouse-receipt and inventory-credit systems. Country experience includes: Africa (18 countries); South Asia (3 countries); Southeast Asia (3 countries); South and Central America (8 countries); and Japan. Long-term experience in Honduras and Ecuador. Fluent in Spanish and French; Portuguese good.

Prof. Chris Haines
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.

Dr Rick Hodges
Email: R.J.Hodges@gre.ac.uk
Reader in Post-Harvest Entomology. 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. Active in co-ordination of European donor interests in agricultural research for development. Long-term experience in Ghana, Mali and Indonesia; field experience in many other countries. Working knowledge of French and Indonesian.

Ulrich Kleih
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.

Dr Gideon Onumah
Email: G.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.

Dr John Orchard
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.

Prof. Andrew Westby
Email: A.Westby@gre.ac.uk
Professor of Food Technology and NRI's Director of Research and Enterprise. Post-harvest technologist with 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.

Dr Richard Gibson
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); providing training in UK (MSc courses) and overseas on virus detection and diagnosis; and PhD research supervision. Successful implementation of overseas projects, including major (>US$1M) multi-partner ones. Field experience in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, South Africa, Jordan, Tunisia, Yemen, Peru, Bolivia.

Dr Rory Hillocks
Email: R.J.Hillocks@gre.ac.uk
Plant pathologist and integrated crop management specialist, particularly in cotton, coffee and cassava. Expertise in design and implementation of sustainable agricultural systems for smallholders in Africa. Interested in crop protection for organic crops. Recently managed six crop-protection projects with national scientists and NGOs in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique and Malawi. 27 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.

Ulrich Kleih
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.

Richard Lamboll
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.

Dr Gideon Onumah
Email: G.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.

Dr Debbie Rees
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.

Keith Tomlins
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 cargo inspection in shipping and warehouse management. Expert in sensory evaluation and consumer acceptability. Commodity experience includes tea, coffee, cocoa, rice,cassava, sweet potato, soya, fish, fruit, vegetables, street foods. Professional experience in 17 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America during more than 70 short- and long-term assignments. Has authored 35 international peer-reviewed papers, and 55 other publications and reports.