Agriculture development professional with over 15 years of relevant in planning and implementing agricultural development programs in food security, nutrition, agriculture and rural development, sustainable natural resource management and climate change adaptation in North America, Africa and Asia is seeking long and short term assignments |
Contact Kwesi Ampong-Nyarko
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Area of Expertise: |
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Agriculture, Livelihoods, Microfinance, Rural
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Professional Experience: |
I have over 15 years of experience in planning and implementing agricultural development programs in food security, nutrition, agriculture and rural development, sustainable natural resource management and climate change adaptation. I have worked as a scientist and as a manager. I have work experience in multiple locations and area of work. I worked for extended periods in Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Philippines and Canada. I also worked in several fields as a weed scientist, on-farm agronomist, insect scientist; special crops research scientist, greenhouse crop production, and biomaterial and bio energy. My experience is related to both rain fed and irrigated agriculture. I have worked on upland and irrigated rice. I have worked on maize, quinoa, sorghum, cassava, legumes, banana, rice, indigenous and export vegetables, root crops and grain legumes. I have worked on intercropping systems and designed strip relay cropping systems to improve the observed advantages of intercropping. I have worked on energy and biomaterial crops including Miscanthus.
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Education: |
Ph.D. University of Reading, England (Agricultural Botany ) • M. Sc. University of Reading, England (Crop Protection Technology) – entomology, bionomics of crop pests and beneficial insects, scientific basis of integrated control, pest population assessment in temperate and tropical crops, chemistry of crop protection pesticides, weeds and herbicides, plant pathology, plant parasitic nematodes and application of plant protection chemical • B. Sc. (Hons) Crop Science, University of Ghana
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Available for: |
- Being headhunted – make me an offer
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Years of Experience:
More than 20 years |
Highest Qualification:
Doctorate |
Languages:
English, French ( Basic) |
Nationality:
Canada
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