Colombia

Andrew
Jarvis

climate change Agriculture Climate smart agriculture Family agriculture Gas emission Productive systems Rural Extension Avocado Bean Coffee Corn Sorghum Water

Biography

Associate Director General of the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, a CGIAR center. Previously Flagship Leader on the CGIAR Research Program for Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), based in Cali, Colombia. Also established the CGIAR Platform on Big Data in Agriculture, a US$31m 6-year initiative to make agricultural development faster, more efficient and impact at greater scale through use of ICTs and big data approaches. Over 20 years experience of research in developing countries to support the goals of alleviating poverty, adapting to climate change and protecting the environment, focusing on data-driven policy analysis on a variety of topics from agrobiodiversity conservation to climate impacts and adaptation.
Over 90 articles, book chapters or books published. In 2003 won the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) C-8 Genetic Resources award for best research paper stemming from his work on conservation prioritization research for wild peanuts in Latin America, and in 2009 received the prestigious Ebbe Nielsen award for innovative research in bioinformatics and biosystematics.

Fellow researchers

France

Nadine Andrieu

agronomy Agriculture Climate smart agriculture Family agriculture Gas emission Productive systems Rural Extension
Colombia

Deissy Martínez Barón

climate change Agriculture Climate smart agriculture Family agriculture Gas emission Productive systems Rural Extension
Honduras

José Miguel Del Cid

climate change Agriculture Climate smart agriculture Family agriculture Gas emission Productive systems Rural Extension
Honduras

Ana Lizeth Dunnaway

planning Agriculture Climate smart agriculture Family agriculture Gas emission Productive systems Rural Extension Seeds
Honduras

Armando Bustillos

technology transfer Agriculture Climate smart agriculture Family agriculture Gas emission Productive systems Rural Extension
United States

Caitlin Corner Dolloff

climate change Agriculture Climate smart agriculture Family agriculture Gas emission Productive systems Rural Extension
Colombia

Ana María Loboguerrero Martínez

climate change Agriculture Climate smart agriculture Family agriculture Gas emission Productive systems Rural Extension
Colombia

Luis Armando Muñoz Borja

Knowledge Management Digital Agriculture Climate Change Plant breeding and plant propagation Agriculture Climate smart agriculture Family agriculture Gas emission Productive systems Rural Extension
Colombia

Jeimar Tapasco

environmental economics Agriculture Climate smart agriculture Family agriculture Gas emission Productive systems Rural Extension
Honduras

Marlon Duron

plant genetic resources Agriculture Climate smart agriculture Family agriculture Gas emission Productive systems Rural Extension
Sponsors
BID
IICA
With the support of
Fondo Coreano de Alianza para el Conocimiento en Tecnología e Innovación (KPK)