Colombia

Julian Fernando
Mateus Rodríguez

plant physiology Agriculture Bio-inputs Capacity building Family agriculture Genetic improvement Pests y Diseases Poverty Productive systems Seeds Andean roots and tubers Banana Genetic resources Marketing and markets Other Papaya Potato

Biography

At AGROSAVIA (formerly Corpoica) since 2001 at the Tibaitatá Research Center as a professional researcher. Involved in the coordination of public / private alliances for the production of seeds in initial phases with small producers in the high Andean zone, as well as the formation of technology-based companies (EBT) for the production of cassava, banana, yam and sweet potato seeds in the Colombian Dry Caribbean. MSc researcher since 2010, supporting the “Shock Plan” financed by MADR for the production and timely delivery of seeds to small producers in the Caribbean Region of the Phase I Winter Wave Project and coordinator of the food security component for capacity recovery production of 16,000 families affected by the effect of the La Niña phenomenon in 2011. Between 2012 and 2016, Manager of the Cacao Innovation Network facilitating the processes of formulation and monitoring of the first Corporate Five-Year Agenda, the linkage of technologies to the sector and AGROSAVIA representative before the National Cocoa Council. In 2017 Master researcher assigned to the Cacao Innovation Network of the Palmira Research Center, in the area of ??crop ecophysiology. Since 2018 at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom, developing a PhD program in Crop Sciences and linked to the Climate Change and Cocoa Ecophysiology project of Cocoa Research UK (CRUK).

Fellow researchers

Ecuador

Ivan Garzon

Agriculture Bio-inputs Capacity building Family agriculture Productive systems Seeds
Ecuador

Xavier Cuesta

Plant breeding Agriculture Agroindustry Climate smart agriculture Genetic improvement Pests y Diseases Poverty Rural Extension Seeds
Bolivia

Julio Gabriel

Plant breeding Agriculture Agroindustry Capacity building Climate smart agriculture Genetic improvement Pests y Diseases Postharvest Poverty Rural Extension Seeds
Colombia

Carlos Eduardo Ñustez

Plant breeding Agriculture Agroindustry Genetic improvement Pests y Diseases Poverty Seeds
Colombia

Santiago Perry

rural development Agriculture Bio-inputs Capacity building Family agriculture Productive systems Seeds
Colombia

Cesar Baquero Maestre

rural development Agriculture Bio-inputs Capacity building Family agriculture Productive systems Seeds
Colombia

Diomara Suárez Segura

rural development Agriculture Bio-inputs Capacity building Family agriculture Productive systems Seeds
Bolivia

Genaro Aroni

agronomy Agriculture Bio-inputs Capacity building Family agriculture Productive systems Seeds
Venezuela

Mirian Gallardo

agronomy Agriculture Bio-inputs Capacity building Family agriculture Productive systems Seeds
Venezuela

Silvestre Fernandez

agronomy Agriculture Bio-inputs Capacity building Family agriculture Productive systems Seeds
Venezuela

José Antonio Salas

agronomy Agriculture Bio-inputs Capacity building Family agriculture Productive systems Seeds
Ecuador

Danilo Vera Coello

phytopathology Agriculture Bio-inputs Capacity building Family agriculture Productive systems Seeds
Ecuador

José Castro

agronomy Agriculture Bio-inputs Capacity building Family agriculture Productive systems Seeds
Ecuador

Carlos Edison Zambrano

agricultural economics Agriculture Bio-inputs Capacity building Family agriculture Productive systems Seeds
Peru

William Daga Ávalos

fruits Agriculture Bio-inputs Capacity building Family agriculture Poverty Productive systems Seeds
Peru

Guillermo Parodi Macedo

fruits Agriculture Bio-inputs Capacity building Family agriculture Productive systems Seeds
Peru

Ciro Ebenezer Barrera Rojas

agronomy Agriculture Bio-inputs Capacity building Family agriculture Productive systems Seeds
Costa Rica

Roberto Gonzalez

rural development Agriculture Bio-inputs Capacity building Family agriculture Productive systems Seeds
Colombia

Raul Iván Valbuena Benavides

Genetic resources Agriculture Capacity building Genetic improvement Pests y Diseases Postharvest Poverty Seeds
Peru

Luz Noemí Zúñiga López

plant breeding Agriculture Capacity building Climate smart agriculture Genetic improvement Pests y Diseases Postharvest Poverty Rural Extension Seeds
Peru

Stef de Haan

rural development Agriculture Climate smart agriculture Family agriculture Genetic improvement Pests y Diseases Poverty Seeds
Ecuador

Elizabeth Yanez

plant protection Agriculture Genetic improvement Pests y Diseases Poverty Seeds
Peru

Carolina Bastos

agronomy Agriculture Genetic improvement Pests y Diseases Poverty Seeds
Sponsors
BID
IICA
With the support of
Fondo Coreano de Alianza para el Conocimiento en Tecnología e Innovación (KPK)