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Md. Zakaria Hasan

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Md. Zakaria Hasan is a field office coordinator with CIMMYT’s Sustainable Agrifood Systems (SAS) program in Bangladesh. He coordinates all the CIMMYT activities in the Faridpur region.

Hasan completed his undergraduate and masters degrees in Agricultural Science from Bangladesh Agricultural University. He started his career as a research associate in soil science at the Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA), then joined the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) as a researcher in agronomy.

Joining CIMMYT in 2012, Hasan’s main expertise is in agronomy, mechanized crop production, adaptive research, public and private sector engagement, and management of field activities.

Hannes Karwat

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Hannes Karwat works across the Global Wheat Program and the Sustainable Intensification Program on strategies to improve nitrogen use efficiency in the smallholder wheat-based systems of the Global South. His research background is based on soil-plant-microbe interactions and nitrogen cycling in cropping systems, and his current research focus at CIMMYT is on Biological Nitrification Inhibition (BNI).

During the past few years, Karwat has gained considerable experience working with international and national research institutes and NGOs in Latin America and Asia.

Kindie Tesfaye Fantaye

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Kindie Tesfaye is a Senior Scientist based in Ethiopia. He has more than 15 years of experience in executing and managing climate, crop modeling and GIS related projects for agricultural research and development in developing countries.

During his time at CIMMYT, he has developed a system of data acquisition and quality control for climate, crop modeling and geospatial analysis. He has applied systems analysis, cropping systems modeling and geospatial analysis tools for yield gap analysis, targeting of climate smart technologies and climate change studies across different scales. In collaboration with partners, he has also developed a digital agro-climate advisory system that provides decision support to smallholder farmers.

L.M. Suresh

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L.M. Suresh leads CIMMYT’s maize pathology efforts in sub-Saharan Africa. He regularly contributes to Global Maize Program projects that have strategic significance in maize pathology, disease diagnosis, epidemiology and disease resistance.

Suresh also works on maize lethal necrosis (MLN) phenotyping with public and private partnership at CIMMYT and the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization’s (KALRO) joint research station in Naivasha, Kenya. His team has phenotyped around 200,000 maize germplasm from various partners and 19 MLN resistant/tolerant hybrids have been released in east Africa so far. He has supported the training of more than 5000 researchers, students, extension workers, private seed company executives and farmers in rapid disease diagnosis and his contributions have helped to prevent further MLN spread throughout eastern and southern Africa.

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.

Christian Thierfelder

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Christian Thierfelder is a Principal Cropping Systems Agronomist working with CIMMYT’s Sustainable Intensification program.

Since 2009, Thierfelder has led CIMMYT’s conservation agriculture systems research in Southern Africa with the aim to adapt conservation agriculture systems to the needs and environments of smallholder farmers. He currently focuses on fine-tuning conservation agriculture systems to different agro-ecologies and researching farmers’ adoption of new technologies, green manure cover crops and grain legumes integration into maize-based farming systems, climate-smart agriculture, GxExM and agro-ecological management of the fall armyworm.

His research mainly covers Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe, and to a lesser extent Namibia. Thierfelder works with a wide range of national and international partners from research and extension in all target countries. Capacity building is a central part of his work, which includes farmers, extension officers and national researchers but also university students from all degree levels.