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Arely Valdivia Araica
Research Associate
I'm a social communicator, fascinated by working on communication for development. I've been with the alliance Central America team since 2017, researching impacts, results, and experiences, to create highlights histories that contribute to and influence the environmental and social agenda.
Climate action
Nicaragua
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Martin Alejandro Mena Urbina
Senior Research Associate-Tropical Forages Program
Nicaraguan citizen, graduated in Agronomy Engineering with orientation in Zootechnics from the Instituto Superior de Ciencias Agropecuarias (currently UNA) in 1986, and studied for a Master's degree in Livestock at the Colegio de Postgraduados en Ciencias Agrícolas de México, from 1996 to 1998.
I worked for 26 years at the service of the Nicaraguan government in different instances related to the technological development of livestock…
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Tam Thi Le
Senior Research Associate
Tam Thi Le received her MSc in Sustainable Tropical Forestry, specializing in agroforestry - a jointed MSc program offered by a consortium of Bangor University, the UK and Technical University of Dresden, Germany (2013-2016).
Since then, she has led several projects on climate change adaptation (e.g., ecosystem-based adaptation, climate-smart agriculture, natural-based solution, and agro-climate information services) at World Agroforestry (ICRAF) in Vietnam (2016-2022). Since…
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Joe Tohme
Former Managing Director, Americas
Joe Tohme, coordinated as director of the research area on Crops for Nutrition and Health at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT global programs on genetic resources, biotechnology, bean, cassava, forages, and rice, working with partners across Latin America, Eastern and Southern Africa, and Southeast Asia. Joe’s research involved integrating genomics with breeding and coordinating genome editing, He has published over 100 articles.
In 2013, he proposed…
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Lizette Maritza Diaz Ramirez
Research Associate
Lizette is an industrial engineer (Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio Garavito, Bogota) and holder of a master's degree in administration (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Palmira campus), and has been with the Alliance as part of the Food Environment and Consumer Behavior (FECB) research team since 2017.
Throughout her professional career, she has participated in the formulation and implementation of projects that advocate for sustainable rural development,…
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Jai Rana
Senior Scientist and Country Representative for India
Dr. Jai Rana is Senior Scientist and Country Representative for India office of the Alliance since 2017. He is currently affiliated to the CGIAR Systems Transformation Science Group, Lever 4 on agrobiodiversity and nature + initiative. He holds a Ph.D. in Genetics and Plant Breeding and Post Doctorate in Molecular Plant Breeding.
His area of research primarily focuses on enhancing adaptive management of crop diversity for resilient agriculture and…
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Francesca Grazioli
Scientist I
Expert and passionate about food systems, performing M&E from projects to policies, an economist with a focus on food security and biodiversity resilience. Geographically focused on sub-Saharan Africa, gastronomically on a global level.
Agrobiodiversity
Africa
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Food systems transformation hubs…
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Roseline Remans
Honorary Research Fellow
Dr. Ir. Roseline Remans is a biosystems engineer, founder of the social enterprise glocolearning, and a honorary research fellow with the Multifunctional Landscapes Team of the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT. Her research focuses on monitoring and managing biodiversity in food systems for people and nature. Her approach emphasizes co-creation and co-learning, and contributes to public and private sector applications connecting local and global scale. Remans has over 100…
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Federico Ceballos-Sierra
Postdoctoral Fellow
Prior to starting my PhD, I grew coffee in my personal farm and held field agronomist and extension agent positions across Colombia. Through this work I was exposed to the social and economic issues facing rural communities. I took these issues to the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and built a research program that (i) provides evidence-based tools for addressing the challenges of climate variability…
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Jairo Rodriguez Chalarca
Senior Coordinator │ Crops for Nutrition and Health
23 years of experience in formulation and evaluation and management of research projects associated with biotech crops in Colombia, addressing two specific lines: (a) Effects on non-white organisms and
(b) monitoring the susceptibility of white insects (pests) to the Bt and Vip proteins within the Biosafety program of GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms) in Colombia.
Extensive experience in the area of training professionals, technicians…
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Gloria Mosquera
Plant Pathologist and Project Leader
Gloria Mosquera, Plant Pathologist and Project leader at the Alliance Bioversity & CIAT working at Palmira campus under Crop for Nutrition and Health Lever. PhD in Plant Pathology from Kansas State University with more than 10 years of experience on molecular and applied pathology that has crafted her commitment to be part of different strategies aimed at decreasing the negative impact of diseases on crop production, especially in Rice and Beans in LAC…
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Emmanuel Zapata-Caldas
Environmental Scientist
Emmanuel Zapata-Caldas is an environmental scientist at the Alliance Bioversity International and CIAT. His work focuses on understanding how to complement and strengthen the capacities of small and mid-sized farmers to address challenges such as food insecurity and climate change. His research interests include human-centered design in agricultural contexts, transitions toward agroecological food systems, and the valuation and mapping of ecosystem services.
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Jérôme Bartholomé
Rice Geneticist and Breeder
Jerome is a rice geneticist and breeder at CIRAD and is hosted by the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT (Plamira, Colombia). He holds a Ph.D. in plant genetics from the Institut Agro Montpellier. Jerome's research mainly focuses on optimizing breeding strategies using genomic tools and simulation approaches.
Before joining the Alliance, Jerome worked for three years at IRRI (International Rice Research Institute, Philippines). He is currently in charge of CIAT-CIRAD…
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Robert B. Zougmoré
Director, AICCRA
Robert Zougmoré (Burkina Faso citizen) is an agronomist and soil scientist with PhD in Production Ecology & Resources Conservation, Wageningen University. His expertise includes Land degradation & development, Climate change, Integrated Water & Nutrient Management, Agroecology, Conservation Agriculture, Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) policies & institutions.
Robert works currently as Principal Scientist with the Alliance of Bioversity International & CIAT,…
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Daniel M. Villegas
Research Associate
I am research associate in the tropical forages group of the Alliance based in Cali, Colombia. We study C and N dynamics in the soil-plant-animal interface, aimed at improving nutrient use efficiency and mitigate GHG. Ongoing projects are in the fields of C sequestration in deep-rooted forages, N use efficiency of grasses fertilized with different sources, N budgets of grass-legume pastures, and biological nitrification inhibition, among others.…
