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Md. Syed-Ur-Rahman

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With over 21 years of experience in the development sector, Md. Syed-Ur-Rahman is an expert in the field of monitoring and evaluation (M&E). His impressive portfolio boasts work on prestigious USAID projects like CSISAMI, CSISA MEA, CSISA Phase III, Fighting Back the Fall Army Worm in Bangladesh, PRICE, PROSHAR, and AIP, demonstrating extensive knowledge and proven expertise.

Currently, he leverages his vast experience as a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Specialist for the USAID-funded SASAS, Southern Africa AID-I, and VACS Projects at CIMMYT. Here, he guides and empowers monitoring teams and has designed comprehensive M&E systems implemented across Sudan, Zambia, Malawi, and Tanzania. His expertise extends beyond project management. Md. Syed-Ur-Rahman is an expert in Feed the Future-guided M&E systems, ensuring projects align with this vital initiative.

He also excels at developing effective databases and management information systems using various tools like MS Office packages, Sharepoint, SPSS, and Power BI, guaranteeing data compliance and insightful analysis. More than just a skilled professional, Md. Syed-Ur-Rahman is a passionate advocate for data-driven decision-making. His dedication ensures projects achieve their full potential and contribute meaningfully to development goals

João Vasco Silva

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João Vasco Silva is an Agronomy-at-scale Data Scientist with the Sustainable Agrifood Systems (SAS) program based in Harare, Zimbabwe. His expertise includes yield gap and resource use efficiency analysis, farming systems research, and integrated assessments at field, farm, and regional levels.

He is currently involved in different research projects in Africa dealing with spatially explicit ex-ante assessments of agricultural technologies and sustainable intensification of farming systems in the region.

Silva holds a PhD from Wageningen University, where he is a guest researcher at the Plant Production Systems Group.

Tesfaye Shiferaw Sida

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Tesfaye Shiferaw Sida is a multi-disciplinary researcher, educator and R&D practitioner emphasizing on production ecology and resource conservation. He currently holds a Scientist position at International Maize & Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT). He organizes and runs projects that facilitate the delivery of agronomy-at-scale solutions, create links among institutions in digital decision support systems, assist implementation of next generation agronomy at scale innovations and nurture internal efficiencies for demand-driven R&D in agronomy.

He is passionate for data-driven decisions, hence proficient in advanced data analytics and programing tools including Python, R, ArcGIS, and more. He is experienced with dynamic systems modeling tools such APSIM, FARMSIM, STELLA and SMILE. He aspires to link hands-on, on-farm and practical experiences to the emerging big data and digital capabilities to assist smallholder farmers benefit from the ‘digital revolution’.

Jannatul Ferdous Asha

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Jannatul Ferdous Asha is a Machinery Development Officer working with CIMMYT’s Sustainable Agrifood Systems (SAS) program in Bangladesh. She joined CIMMYT in 2019.

Asha completed an undergraduate degree in agricultural engineering and a masters degree in farm power and machinery at Bangladesh Agricultural University.

Vimbayi Grace Petrova Chimonyo

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With ten years of experience as a crop scientist, Vimbayi Grace Petrova Chimonyo’s research focuses on integrated crop management to address food and nutrition security issues, climate change and rural development. She works primarily with crop simulation modelling as a tool for adapting to climate change and variability and improving food security, especially for smallholder farmers.

She has a good understanding of resource use (water, soil nutrients and solar radiation) within the agricultural sector, Water-Food-Nutrition-Health nexus, the Water-Energy-Food nexus within food system landscapes, and the need for transformative strategies for inclusive food security.

Her main research interests are developing resilient cropping systems with an emphasis on sustainable intensification under climate variability and change.

Simon Fonteyne

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Simon Fonteyne is a cropping systems agronomist tasked with the coordination of a network of research platforms in Latin America, through which local collaborators adopt sustainable intensification practices to local agro-ecological conditions and promote them to local farmers.

Tek Sapkota

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Tek Sapkota currently leads the Climate Change Science Group within CIMMYT’s Sustainable Agrifood Systems (SAS) program and is based in CIMMYT headquarters in Mexico. He carries out research in the area of agricultural systems, soil science and environmental sciences. He is particularly involved in studying agro-ecosystems management consequences on nutrient dynamics and their effect on food security, climate change adaptation and mitigation. He is a member of the Climate Investment Committee in OneCGIAR.

Sapkota has served in IPCC as Lead author as well as Review editor. He is an associate Editor of Nature Scientific Report and Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems journals. He is an agricultural expert in the India GHG platform.

Santiago Lopez-Ridaura

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Santiago Lopez-Ridaura focuses on the quantitative analysis of agricultural systems at the field, farm, landscape and regional level. By developing and applying a suit of quantitative systems analysis approaches, methods and tools, he builds a detailed understanding of the characteristics, dynamics and diversity of farming systems in a given region. Then, through multi-criteria assessments of different cropping and farming systems, he helps target interventions to specific types of farms within certain agro-ecologies.

Lopez-Ridaura works closely with farmers, farmer organizations, national and international non-governmental organizations, and agricultural research and development institutions to help them answer what technological and policy interventions are most appropriate for a given community. This enables organizations to comprehensively understand the main challenges and opportunities of specific technologies, and improve their adoption and adaptation to reach impact at scale.

Iván Ortiz-Monasterio

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Iván Ortiz-Monasterio is an agronomist and principal scientist at CIMMYT. He focuses on plant nutrition and soil fertility as a means to improve nutrient use efficiency in cereal systems through crop management and improvement, with the objective of increasing productivity, nutritional quality and profitability while reducing environmental impact.

His research has involved the development of technologies as well as technology transfer to farmers’ fields, with emphasis on the use of precision agriculture with optical sensors for nutrient diagnosis. He has also works on the application of remote sensing in agriculture.

Timothy Krupnik

Timothy J. Krupnik

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Timothy Krupnik has worked in agricultural research for development in Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and the Caribbean. At CIMMYT, he leads a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural research team that comprises the Sustainable Agrifood Systems program’s Innovation Sciences in Agroecosystems and Food Systems theme across Asia.

This team spans disciplines and brings together technical skills ranging from systems agronomy, remote sensing, socioeconomics, climatology, agricultural engineering, and modeling and data science. The team’s research generates real-world impact by addressing key knowledge gaps, developing tools, and facilitating partnerships that increase productivity, sustainability and resilience in the context of the region’s biophysical, economic, and sociocultural diversity.

Krupnik has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers, policy briefs, chapters and books, and has led the development of numerous extension modules, decision support tools, and early warning systems.