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Diego Obando Bonilla
Asociado de Investigación Senior Honduras
Colombiano, Ingeniero Forestal de la Universidad del Tolima, realizó investigaciones de eco-fisiología forestal durante 10 años en el Centro Nacional de Investigaciones del Café (CENICAFE), obtuvo una maestría en Ciencias Agrarias de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia- sede Medellín, en 2013 ingresó al equipo de modelación de clima y cultivo del Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) y desde 2016 apoya en Honduras la implementación de…
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Alcade C. Segnon
Scientist
Alcade Segnon is a Scientist at the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and Science Officer for the Accelerating the Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) in West Africa.
Prior to joining the Alliance, Alcade was a Postdoctoral Fellow – Climate and Policy at the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), based at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid…
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Maria del Mar Esponda
Research Associate
Maria del Mar Esponda is an agricultural engineer graduated from Universidad del Valle in Colombia with expertise in agricultural modeling, spatial analysis, data analysis, and social networks in R. She has nearly two years of experience working for the Alliance in the PISA-FAE area, where she has developed impact evaluation projects for cassava scientific production by analyzing social networks and identifying key actors with greater influence within the global scientific…
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Johana Marcela Castillo Rivera
Research Associate
Johana is an economist, specialist in Government and Public Policy, and currently a master’s student in Data Science. Since 2022, she has been a Research Associate at Alliance Bioversity & CIAT, where she has contributed to the design and management of analytical tools focused on food systems and climate change. Her work has included the analysis of food system determinants in Colombia, as well as the mapping of environmental service capacities in the…
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Mathieu Ouedraogo
Senior Scientist
Dr. Mathieu OUEDRAOGO is a resourceful agricultural economist with over 20 years’ experience in agricultural research for development at national and international levels. He has a deep technical knowledge in agricultural and environmental economics, development, and environmental studies. His area of expertise includes adoption and impact assessment of agricultural innovations, agricultural value chain analysis, climate-smart agriculture (CSA), climate information services…
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Noël Templer
Senior Research Associate |Seed systems, CSA, CIS & SLM
Noel Templer is a development systems specialist working on the nexus of food, seed, and market systems in a changing climate. In his work and practice, he prioritizes inclusive approaches to sustainability and resilience for smallholders, development programs, and businesses. He specializes in seed systems strengthening, climate change adaptation through technology scaling, policy advocacy, agroecology, regenerative and climate-smart…
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Nasser Kouadio Yao
Pan-African Coordinator of the Demand/Market-led Breeding
Dr. Nasser Yao is the Pan-African Coordinator of the Demand/Market-led Breeding portfolio which is a Food Security Alliance, by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), the Crawford Fund, the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture and various education and research institutions in Africa. He is based at the Alliance of Bioversity International & CIAT in Nairobi, Kenya; He champions, implements…
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Jhon Larry Moreno
Research Associate
Jhon Larry is a researcher with experience in Food Technology and Sciences. He has a master's degree in Agroindustrial engineering from the National University of Colombia. Larry has more than 10 years of experience in scientific research on the evaluation and post-harvest quality of agricultural products in the tropics.
Larry has experience in the physicochemical and functional characterization of different botanical sources such as banana, plantain, cassava and sweet potato…
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Alberto Cenci
Associate Scientist
Alberto Cenci, an Italian national, joined Bioversity International, now the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, (Montpellier) in 2012, holding the position of an associate scientist.
Specialist in comparative genomics, his main focus is the genomic characterization of banana germplasm conserved in the Bioversity International Musa Germplasm Transit Centre (ITC) genebank in Belgium. In addition, he studied some large gene families to develop database tools that…
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Idupulapati Rao
Plant Nutritionist
Dr. Idupulapati Rao is an Emeritus Scientist (Plant Nutritionist and Physiologist) and Consultant at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). He worked as a Visiting International Scientist at the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research (NCAUR), United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Peoria, Illinois, USA for about 3 years (2017-2020). He worked at CIAT, based in Cali, Colombia for 27 years (1989-2016).…
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Didier Lesueur
Senior Soil Microbiologist - Coordinator of the Common Microbial Biotechniology Platform (CMBP)
Didier Lesueur received a PhD in Plant-Soil-Microorganism interaction from the University of Paris VI (Pierre & Marie Curie) in 1992. He has been getting a position in CIRAD for working in France (1992 – 1996) at the BSFT laboratory, at IRD-Dakar in Senegal for 8 years (1996 – 2004), at CIAT-TSBF in Nairobi-Kenya for 6 years (2004-2010), at LDD-Bangkok for 5 years (2011-2016) and currently at CIAT-…
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Evan Girvetz
Principal Scientist and Team Leader
Dr. Evan Girvetz is a Principal Scientist and Global Program Leader, Finance and Investments for Climate Action and Leader of the Africa Climate Action Program, at the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), part of the CGIAR. He is also co-Leader of the Ukama Ustawi One CGIAR Regional Integrated Initiative for east and southern Africa, lead for Climate Finance in the OneCGIAR Climate Resilience Initiative…
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Sarah Brinkley
Postdoctoral Fellow, The Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI)™
Sarah Brinkley, Ph.D. joins the PTFI, where she is leading the Edible Biodiversity and Metadata workstream. At the PTFI, Sarah endeavors to draw complex connections between growing environment, management, plant health, and crop quality through collecting standardized, high-quality metadata. Her perennial goal is to cultivate research among diverse, international teams of food systems experts toward a more just and food-secure…
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Nicanor Odongo
Research Fellow
Nicanor Odongo is a PhD research fellow at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT within the Food Environment and Consumer Behavior lever. He has a Master of Science Degree in Food Safety and Quality and a Bachelor of Science degree in Food Science, and Technology. His research interest is on the nexus between food safety and nutrition and how this can be used to influence polices for improving food environments within local communities for improved health outcome…
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Consolata Nolega Musita
Research Fellow
Consolata Musita is a Research Fellow within the Food Environment and Consumer Behaviour Lever, having joined the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT IN 2020. Her area of focus linking food systems to dietary diversity and nutrition outcomes. Currently, she is working on a project called HealthyFoodAfrica (HFA) which is an EU funded project that aims to improve nutrition in Africa by strengthening the diversity, sustainability, resilience, and connectivity of food…
