Michael Peters

Dr. Michael Peters worked for 40 years on Tropical Forages and their integration into Livestock-Crop-Tree Systems. Since 1988 with the CGIAR, first with ILRI (starting as ILCA) and since from 1998 to 2025 with the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT Intl. (starting as CIAT). Michael has working experience in Latin America and the Caribbean, in West, Eastern, and Southern Africa and in a coordinating function in Southeast Asia. His research focuses on the development of tropical forages and their integration in tropical systems for ecosystem and livelihood benefits. Seed supply systems are critical for resilience and scaling of technologies.

Michael has aquired ample experience in working in multidisciplinary and multicultural teams, contributing to or leading fund raising, design, execution, management and documentation of multiple agricultural research projects in Latin America and Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.

He published more than 150 documents related to tropical forages and their integration into forage based crop-livestock smallholder systems, from research to dissemination and use.

Michael was awarded his PhD (Dr.agr.) by the University of Giessen (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen) in 1992.