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Andreea Nowak
Research Team Lead, Climate Action
Andreea Nowak is the Research Team Lead for Climate Action at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT (a CGIAR center) and a doctoral fellow at Wageningen University and Research. Her work focuses on measuring and tracking adaptation in agriculture, particularly in Africa, combining evidence synthesis and field research to generate robust insights on what works, for whom, and under what conditions. She also serves as a Lead Author for the Agriculture…
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Kyle Dittmer
Research Analyst
Kyle is a Research Analyst for the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT. He was previously a graduate research assistant at the University of Vermont where he received his MS degree in Natural Resources (2019). His MS thesis focused on the potential for best management practices (i.e., conservation tillage, alternative manure application methods/timing and cover cropping) to mitigate nutrient losses via greenhouse gases from agricultural soils without compromising soil fertility or crop…
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Bailey Rowland
Program Manager and Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Officer
Bailey Rowland is the Program Manager and Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Officer for the Agroecological Transitions (Digital Tools) project. In this role, she plans and tracks progress against targets and indicators, documents impacts, and supports project learning.
Bailey has experience in program administration, non-profit finance and accounting, and database and information systems management. Bailey is also the Program…
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Anani Ogou
Senior Research Associate
Anani Ogou is Agronomist and Soil Scientist by training (Bsc. & Msc.) and works as a Senior Research Associate, Climate Smart Agriculture & Climate Information Services for the Alliance.
He holds a Msc. Agricultural and Food Value Chains. He has a solid background in Project Management, Monitoring & Evaluation, and has worked with several international institutions including, International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines (as Junior climate smart…
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Osana Bonilla-Findji
Senior Scientist
Osana is a Senior Scientist working in the Food Environment and Consumer Behavior research area. With a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences. She has more than 15 years of experience as Science Officer fostering collaborative and interdisciplinary work across Africa, Latin America and Asia to address food systems and climate-change-related challenges. With a multicultural background she acts as a bridge builder and facilitator to support partnership development, cross-…
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Anayansi Svetlana García Baldelomar
Research Associate
Graduated from UCA-Nicaragua with a bachelor's in Environmental Engineering and spent time as a Research student at the faculty of Global Environmental Studies in Sophia University (上智大学 ).
Research focus: Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA), Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), prioritization frameworks for investment in climate change adaptation and mitigation technologies.
Climate action…
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Eleonora De Falcis
Associate Scientist
Eleonora De Falcis is an agricultural and trade economist in the research program Bioversity for Food and Agriculture at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT.
Her current work focuses on the economic sustainability of on-farm agrobiodiversity conservation looking at market aspects with a local, national and international perspective.
She holds a PhD in Agrifood Systems from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Piacenza), two master’s degree in…
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Valentin Guignon
Scientist I
Valentin Guignon first joined Bioversity International, now the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, in 2010 as a bioinformatics specialist to mainly work on the GreenPhyl database within the Commodities program for 16 months. After a 6-month contract in CIRAD, he came back to Bioversity International in January 2012 and continues his work on gene families in GreenPhyl.
He is now also involved in the GenoRing project, the Musa Germplasm Information System (MGIS), the Plant…
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Julie Sardos
Genetic Resources Scientist
Julie is a French national who joined the Alliance, then Bioversity International, in 2012. She is based in Montpellier and she works on the characterization of Banana germplasm. She is specifically in charge of the molecular characterization of the accessions conserved in the Musa Germplasm International Transit Centre (ITC).
Since 2016, Julie leads collecting missions, notably to Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands, that enabled the discovery of nearly 150 new…
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Dejene K. Mengistu
Scientist-II
Dejene K. Mengistu is a Scientist at the Alliance Bioversity International and CIAT, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where he manages various projects under the Agrobiodiversity in Production System lever.
His work focuses on plant breeding and genetics, agrobiodiversity for food and agriculture, Natural Resources Development with an emphasis on breeding crops for stress tolerance. Farm diversification to improve their resilience to climate change and improved nutrition is his…
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Teshale A. Mamo
Bean Breeder
Teshale A. Mamo is a bean breeder working at the Alliance of Bioversity-CIAT in Arusha, Tanzania. He is also the East and Central Africa Bean Research Coordinator for PABRA and has more than 12 years’ experience in breeding and genetics of common bean and soybean.
Crops for nutrition and health
Africa
Beans
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Luis Fernando Delgado
Data Analyst, Cassava Program
MSc. Agro-industrial engineer with expertise in data handling, processing, and analytics of agronomic and quality traits in cassava breeding populations. Passionate about combining data-driven approaches with breeding population-based studies of economical traits, focusing on dry matter, yield, disease resistance, and postharvest quality traits.
My professional journey has involved extensive international collaborations in France, Asia, and the Americas,…
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Paula Andrea Lozano Montaña
Senior Research Associate, Rice Physiology
I am a Biologist from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, with a master's degree in Science - Biology. I work for the Rice program at Alliance Bioversity and CIAT in the physiology group, at the campus located in Palmira, Colombia.
I study the response of plants to stress. For this I use different tools, mainly physiological and molecular. Currently in my work, I'm looking for traits that will improve the carbon sequestration capacity in rice…
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Jesús Fernando Flórez Herrera
Research Associate
Fernando Flórez, Research Associate socioeconomic and environmental issues, works under the Tropical Forages Program at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT.
Fernando participates in the implementation of economic and environmental research in the CGIAR Initiatives: Livestock and Climate and Market Intelligence. His research focuses on understanding the functioning of the socioecological system in livestock sector. He works in the integral valuation of…
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Human-induced movement of wild food plant biodiversity across farming systems is essential to ensure their availability
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/57002
Publication year
2014
Authors
Cruz García, Gisella S.
Price, Lisa L
Full Citation
Cruz-Garcia, Gisella; Price, Lisa L. 2014. Human-induced movement of wild food plant…
