Ecuador

José Luis
Zambrano Mendoza

plant breeding knowledge management Agriculture Capacity building Policies Cocoa Healthy food Marketing and markets

Biography

Agricultural Engineer, graduated from the Army Polytechnic School - ESPE - IASA. He completed his Master's Degree in Plant Breeding and Genetic Resources at “Wageningen University” and obtained his PhD in the Department of Horticulture and Extensive Cropping at “The Ohio State University, specializing in Genetics and Plant Breeding. During his professional career he has developed two varieties of Starch corn for the Ecuadorian highlands and a hybrid of corn for the Litoral Region of the Country and has directed several projects of genetic resistance to pests and nutritional quality of corn. He was Professor of Genetics and Plant Breeding at IASA II (Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas Headquarters) and Director of Research at the National Institute for Agricultural Research - INIAP. He is currently Principal Investigator of the Maize Program at INIAP's Santa Catalina Experimental Station.

Projects

Project leader

2030-2050 Cocoa

Fellow researchers

Ecuador

Ramón Espinel

agricultural economics Agriculture Capacity building Policies
Ecuador

Eduardo Chávez Navarrete

cocoa pollutants Agriculture Capacity building Policies
Ecuador

Manuel Carrillo

Agroecology Plant Nutrition in tropical crops Soil Management Recovery of degraded areas Agriculture Capacity building Policies
Ecuador

Victor Sanchez

Knowledge management socioeconomic and technological impact studies Bibliometric studies Agriculture Capacity building Policies
Ecuador

Katerine Orbe

biotechnology Agriculture Capacity building Policies
Ecuador

Cristina Iglesias Paladines

knowledge management Agriculture Capacity building Policies
Ecuador

Karla Tinoco Salazar

knowledge management Agriculture Capacity building Policies
Colombia

Edwin Rodríguez Velásquez

phytopathology Agriculture Capacity building Policies
Costa Rica

Francisco Javier Díaz

plant breeding Agriculture Capacity building Policies
Panama

Abiel Gutierrez

agronomy Agriculture Capacity building Policies
Peru

Alina Camacho

plant breeding Agriculture Capacity building Policies
Sponsors
BID
IICA
With the support of
Fondo Coreano de Alianza para el Conocimiento en Tecnología e Innovación (KPK)