31 January 2023
Stephen Angudubo
Stephen leads on scoping and establishing multi-crop on-farm trial networks for 1000FARMS. He has worked on projects involving tricot since 2018, participating in integrating the tricot approach with on-farm testing of roots, tubers and cereals. He has over nine years of experience working in action research; economic analysis of technologies, innovations, and management practices; experimental […]
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Marcia Petraglia
Marcia is a senior administrative project assistant. She supports research projects with procurement, travel, recruitment, meetings and workshops organisation, among other tasks. She has extensive experience in research programme support, ensuring compliance with procedures, policies and donor requirements, and with overall facilitation for project implementation. Marcia holds a BA (Hons) in French and Information Technology […]
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Kauê de Sousa
Kauê brings 10 years’ experience in systems design, crop ecology and data science to the 1000FARMS Course, leveraging the ability of NARES and CGIAR breeding programmes to generate insights from high-quality on-farm data. He has been involved in various stages of validating and scaling tricot in Central America, Asia and Africa, from the design of […]
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Marie-Angélique Laporte
Marie-Angélique leads the architectural design and platform integration for ClimMob at 1000FARMS. She has more than 10 years of experience leveraging FAIR principles and ontology-based solutions to enhance data availability in agriculture. Throughout her career, Marie-Angélique has made significant contributions to the development of various ontologies, metadata schemas, and the application of knowledge graph technologies […]
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Joost van Heerwaarden
Joost leads the variety performance analysis for 1000FARMS. He has a background in crop genomics, quantitative genetics and statistics, with a current research focus on the analysis of on-farm data. Over the past 20 years he has worked on diverse topics involving the analysis of genetic diversity and yield variability, particularly in smallholder production systems. […]
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Rhys Manners
Rhys is the data collection lead for 1000FARMS. He has worked on projects involving tricot since 2019, leading a project adapting the tricot approach to roots and tubers. Rhys has almost 10 years’ experience working in the areas of dietary changes, climate change and system change analysis. Increasingly he has adopted digital tools and crowdsourcing […]
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Grecia Benavente
Grecia is the 1000FARMS project manager. She ensures that planning, coordination and communication take place so that activities start on time, have the necessary resources and make efficient use of them. She has over 10 years’ experience in programme management, monitoring and evaluation, communications and quality assessment. She holds a BSc in International Management and […]
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Jacob Van Etten
Jacob is the project lead for 1000FARMS. He launched the original idea behind the tricot approach in 2011 and has led the team that developed this approach since 2012. He has worked on crop diversity and related topics for over 20 years from a broad interdisciplinary perspective, using participatory social science methods, crop experimentation, scientific […]
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Anna Muller
Anna leads the inform product management activities for 1000FARMS. She makes sure that tricot-informed information products are designed to fit decision-makers’ needs and contexts regarding, for example, product advancement or variety release decisions. She has more than 10 years’ experience leading and managing research projects around innovation adoption, data and decision-making, human-centred design and digital […]
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