Core Archives - 1000farms.net

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 […]

10 August 2022

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 […]

10 August 2022

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 […]

10 August 2022

Carlos Quiros

Carlos is leading the architectural design and platform integration of ClimMob for 1000FARMS. He has almost 20 years’ experience supporting international agricultural research and development in the areas of research data management and information and communication technologies for development. Carlos is now co-leader of the digital solutions group at the Alliance of Biodiversity International and […]

10 August 2022

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. […]

10 August 2022

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 […]

10 August 2022

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 […]

10 August 2022

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 […]

10 August 2022

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 […]