Current work
Farmers Knowledge Transfer project Within the Knowledge transfer project, we try to identify how best to transfer existing bests practices and knowledge to farmers, especially small-scale farmers in developing countries using technology. I am also working to understand the issues due to climate change and the knowledge needs of farmers of different crops worldwide to become resilient to this issues . |
Agricultural Diversification and Technologies Project In this project, we aim to determine the long-term effects of agricultural diversification globally. Additionally, we try to understand how agricultural technologies can be used in diversified farming or vice versa, to enhance the existing benefits of agricultural diversification for both farmers and nature. |
Past work
PhD research - Diversity Turn project
The main objectives of my research were to find the importance of the vanilla production landscape in Madagascar for the conservation of herbaceous plants, the provision of ecosystem services to local communities and the sustainability of agricultural practices for soil quality and productivity. I assessed the diversity of herbaceous plants in prevalent land use systems in northeast Madagascar. Then I compared the diversity of herbaceous plant communities across the prevalent land use systems. In addition to biodiversity assessment, I interviewed different households about the good services provided by these prevalent and use systems and agricultural practices related to land clearing and soil management. With the interview data, I evaluated the importance of the different land use systems for local communities with respect to ecosystem provision. The results of my Ph.D. project enable us to better understand of Malagasy plant communities and their response to land use changes along with the sustainability of practiced land uses within the vanilla landscapes in Northeast Madagascar. It contributes to improve the planning of plant biodiversity conservation in Madagascar by incorporating recent findings from our studies in the landscapes of vanilla production in the SAVA region in northeastern Madagascar |