Natural Resources Institute

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Dr Sarah Arnold
  • NRI Department: Livelihoods and Institutions Department
  • Qualifications: MA (Cantab), PhD (Lond)
  • Biography:

    Dr Sarah Arnold joined the University of Greenwich in 2010, after completing her PhD in sensory ecology in the Chittka Lab at Queen Mary, University of London. Her background at Queen Mary and prior to that at the University of Cambridge, was in pollinator behaviour (Dyer et al. 2006, Nature) and the evolution of flower colours (Arnold et al. 2010, PLoS ONE). Dr Arnold investigated trends in the colour composition of flowering plant communities, and the responses of bees to flower colours under variable light conditions, finding that bees show preferences for familiar illuminant types when foraging (Arnold et al. 2012, J Exp Biol).

    Since joining the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), Dr Arnold has continued to develop her interest in pollinators, studying the effects of the composition of pollen and nectar (Arnold et al. 2014, J Chem Ecol) on pollinators, their use of odour cues (Arnold et al. in prep) and how environment influences pollinator populations (Arnold et al. 2018, Agr Ecosys Environ). Additionally, she works on the ecology and behaviour of stored product pests, investigating the factors determining how they orient towards food material (Arnold et al. 2012, PLoS ONE; 2015, Bull Ent Res; 2016, Peer J) and the potential of pesticidal plants and other control methods in pre- and post-harvest pest management. Dr Arnold is particularly interested in how the behaviour of storage pests can be affected by their own life history (e.g. age, morph) and interactions between different cue types (colour, odour).

    Dr Arnold is a member of NRI's Agriculture, Health & Environment Department, working primarily with the pest behaviour, chemical ecology and ecosystems services research groups. She been lead or co-author on publications about flower colour evolution, insect ecology, and pollinator and storage pest behaviour in international peer-reviewed journals, and is one of the developers and managers of the Floral Reflectance Database.
  • Selected Publications:
    • Ojija F., Arnold S.E.J. & Treydte A.C. (2021) Plant competition as a biocontrol method? Possible management tools for suppressing Parthenium hysterophorus. Rangelands. doi: 10.1016/j.rala.2020.12.004
    • Elisante F., Ndakidemi P.A., Arnold S.E.J., Belmain S.R., Gurr G.M., Darbyshire I., Xie G., Tumbo J. & Stevenson P.C. (2020) Insect pollination is important but not limiting in a smallholder bean-farming system. PeerJ. 8:e10102. doi: 10.7717/peerj.10102
    • Ings T.C. & Arnold S.E.J. (2020) Editorial overview: Pollinator ecology in the Anthropocene. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 38:iii-iv
    • Mkenda P.A., Ndakidemi P.A., Stevenson P.C., Arnold S.E.J., Darbyshire I., Belmain S.R., Priebe J., Johnson A.C., Tumbo J & Gurr G.M. (2020) Knowledge gaps among smallholder farmers hinder adoption of conservation biological control. Biocontrol Science and Technology. 30(3):256-277. doi: 10.1080/09583157.2019.1707169
    • Stathers T.E., Arnold S.E.J., Rumney C.J. & Hopson C. (2020) Measuring the nutritional cost of insect infestation of stored maize and cowpea. Food Security. 12:285–308. doi: 10.1007/s12571-019-00997-w
    • Arnold S.E.J., Forbes S.J., Hall D.R., Farman D.I., Bridgemohan P., Spinelli G.R., Bray D.P., Perry G.B., Grey L., Belmain S.R. & Stevenson P.C. (2019) Floral odors and the interaction between pollinating ceratopogonid midges and cacao Journal of Chemical Ecology. 45(10):869-878. doi: 10.1007/s10886-019-01118-9
    • Arnold S.E.J. & Chittka L. (2019) Commentary: Flower colour diversity seen through the eyes of pollinators. Annals of Botany. 124(2):viii-ix. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcz107
    • Elisante F., Ndakidemi P.A., Arnold S.E.J., Belmain S.R., Gurr G.M., Darbyshire I., Xi, G., Tumbo J. & Stevenson P.C. (2019) Enhancing knowledge among smallholders on pollinators and supporting field margins for sustainable food security. Journal of Rural Studies. 70:75-86. doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.07.004
    • Mahot H.C., Mahob R.J., Hall D.R., Arnold S.E.J., Fotso K.A., Membang G., Ewane N., Kemga A., Fiaboe K.K.M., Bilong B.C.F. & Hanna R. (2019) Trap colour affects catches of brown cocoa mirid, Sahlbergella singularis Haglund, in sex pheromone traps in Cameroon cocoa plantations. Crop Protection. 104959. doi: 10.1016/j.cropro.2019.104959
    • Mkenda P.A., Ndakidemi P.A., Stevenson P.C., Arnold S.E.J., Belmain S. R., Chidege M., Gurr G.M. & Woolley V.C. (2019) Characterization of hymenopteran parasitoids of Aphis fabae in an African smallholder bean farming system through sequencing of COI ‘mini-barcodes’. Insects. 10(10):331. doi: 10.3390/insects10100331
    • Mkenda, P.A., Ndakidemi, P.A., Stevenson, P.C., Arnold, S.E.J., Belmain, S.R., Chidege, M. & Gurr, G.M. (2019) Field margin vegetation in tropical African bean systems harbours diverse natural enemies for biological pest control in adjacent crops. Sustainability. 11(22):6399. doi: 10.3390/su11226399
    • Mkenda P.A., Ndakidemi P.A., Mbega E., Stevenson P.C., Arnold S.E.J., Gurr G.M., & Belmain S.R. (2019) Multiple ecosystem services from field margin vegetation for ecological sustainability in agriculture: scientific evidence and knowledge gaps. PeerJ. 7:e8091. doi: 10.7717/peerj.8091
    • Ojija F., Arnold S.E.J. & Treydte A.C. (2019) Impacts of alien invasive Parthenium hysterophorus on flower visitation by insects to co-flowering plants. Arthropod-Plant Interactions. 13(5):719-734. doi: 10.1007/s11829-019-09701-3
    • Ojija F., Arnold S.E.J. & Treydte A.C. (2019) Bio-herbicide potential of Desmodium uncinatum crude leaf extract against the invasive plant species Parthenium hysterophorus. Biological Invasions.  21(12):3641-3653. doi: 10.1007/s10530-019-02075-w
    • Scott-Brown A.S., Arnold S.E.J., Kite G., Farrell I.W., Farman D.I., Collins D.W. & Stevenson P.C. (2019) Mechanisms in mutualisms: A chemically mediated thrips pollination strategy in common elder. Planta. 250(1): 367-379. doi: 10.1007/s00425-019-03176-5
    • Bergamo P.J., Telles F.J., Arnold S.E.J. & Brito V.L.G. (2018) Flower colour within communities shifts from overdispersed to clustered along an alpine altitudinal gradient. Oecologia. 188(1):223-235. doi: 10.1007/s00442-018-4204-5
    • Arnold S.E.J., Bridgemohan P., Perry G.B., Spinelli G.R., Pierre B., Haughton C., Dockery O., Murray F., Grey L., Murphy S.T., Belmain S.R. & Stevenson P.C. (2018) The significance of climate in the pollinator dynamics of a tropical agroforestry system Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 254:1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2017.11.013
    • Arnold S.E.J., Stevenson P.C. & Belmain S.R. (2016) Shades of yellow: interactive effects of visual and odour cues in a pest beetle. PeerJ. 4:e2219. doi: 10.7717/peerj.2219
    • McCarthy E.W., Arnold S.E.J., Chittka, L., Le Comber S.C., Verity R., Dodsworth, S., Knapp S., Kelly L.J., Chase M.W., Baldwin I.T., Kovařík A., Mhiri C., Taylor, L. & Leitch A.R. (2015) The effect of polyploidy and hybridisation on the evolution of floral colour in Nicotiana (Solanaceae). Annals of Botany. 115(7):1117-31. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcv048
    • Arnold S.E.J., Stevenson P.C. & Belmain S.R. (2015) Responses to colour and host odour cues in three cereal pest species, in the context of ecology and control. Bulletin of Entomological Research. 105(4):417-25. doi: 10.1017/S0007485315000346
  • Research / Scholarly Interests:

    Dr Arnold is interested in insect behaviour and ecology, in particular the interactions between economically important insects (pests, pollinators, etc.) and their environment and food. Key research questions that interest her include:

    • How do habitats and ecosystems influence abundance and species richness of insects of agricultural importance?
    • How do pests of stored products orient towards host material?
    • How do they respond behaviourally to attractive and repellent cues, including pesticidal plants and other possible control strategies?
    • How do botanical insecticides and pesticidal plants interact with pre- and post-harvest pests and non-target invertebrates such as bees?
    • How do pollinating insects identify food using visual information and other cues, such as the effects of plant appearance or variable illumination on foraging technique?
    • What happens when they find that food: how does the composition of different plants' nectar and pollen affect pollinator preferences and fitness?
    • Ecology of pollinators in the UK and abroad. In particular, how can pollinator populations be supported and safeguarded in different environments?
  • Awards:
    • Member of the Royal Entomological Society and South-East Regional Secretary
    • Member of the British Ecological Society
    • Early Career Researcher Excellence Award 2014/15
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Visiting Fellow
Dr Sharon Van Brunschot
  • NRI Department: Livelihoods and Institutions Department
Phone: +44 (0)1634 88 3199
Visiting Fellow in Agricultural Entomology and Plant Pathology
Dr Tim Chancellor
  • NRI Department: Livelihoods and Institutions Department
  • Qualifications: PhD, MSc, BA (Hons)
  • Biography:

    Dr Tim Chancellor is a specialist in the capacity strengthening of individuals, organisations, and institutions.  His early work was in sustainable pest and disease management in rice, banana, groundnut, and tomato and he had long-term assignments in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.  He was also involved in several research and consultancy activities in Latin America.  He led NRI’s Plant, Animal & Human Health Group from 2001 to 2006 and from 2007 to 2021 coordinated the Institute’s work on capacity strengthening and partnership development.  He helped to develop and manage the £11m continent-wide Strengthening Capacity for Agricultural Research and Development in Africa project funded by DFID (now FCDO).  He has maintained his research interests in sustainable agricultural systems and from 2014-2017 he acted as Liaison Scientist for the McKnight Foundation’s Collaborative Crop Research Program in southern Africa.  He has a long-standing involvement in Agrinatura, the European Alliance on Knowledge for Agricultural Development, and has worked extensively with the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Africa (RUFORUM).  He is currently a member or RUFORUM’s International Advisory Panel.
  • Selected Publications:
    • Roshania, R.P., Yates, J., McIntyre, L., Chancellor, T.C.B, Fivian, E., Hill, M., Isoto, R., Marinda, P., Narayanan, S., Whatford, L., Zotor, F., Khandelwal, S. (2023)  Assessing needs for interdisciplinarity in agriculture, nutrition, and health education. Global Food Security (37): 1-9, DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2023.100691
    • Ofori-Kyereh, B.E., Morton, J.F. & Chancellor, T. C. B. (2022) Constraints on farmers’ adaptive capacity to climate variability and change, Climate and Development, 15:4, 312-324, DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2022.2083546 
    • Nicklin, C., Chancellor, T., Garcia, A., Gohole, L., Haussmann, B., Kaijage, P., Maland Cady, J., Miller, K., Moore, M., Nelson, R., Powers, M., & Somé, B. (2021). Funder-Initiated Communities of Practice as a Means for Sharing and Creating Knowledge in Order to Strengthen the Adaptive Capacity of Systems. The Foundation Review, 13(1), DOI: 10.9707/1944-5660.1554
    • Chancellor, Tim C.B., Priebe, Jan S.H. Mkenda, & Prisila A. (2019) Crowdsourcing Field Observations from Smallholder Farmers in Tanzania Using Interactive Voice Response. Outlooks on Pest Management (30:3): 104-110, DOI: 10.1564/v30_jun_02
    • Mukanga, M., Matumba, L., Makwenda, B., Alfred, S., Sakala, W., Kanenga, K., Chancellor, T., Mugabe, J. & Bennett, B. (2019) Participatory evaluation of groundnut planting methods for pre-harvest aflatoxin management in Eastern Province of Zambia. Cahiers Agricultures 28 (1), DOI: 10.1051/cagri/2019002
    • Matumba, L. Singano, L.,Tran, B., Mukanga, M., Makwenda, B., Kumwenda, W., Mgwira, S., Phiri, S.,  Mataya, F., Mthunzi, T., Alfred, S., Madzivhandila, T., Mugabe, J., Bennett, B., & Chancellor, T. (2018) Managing aflatoxin in smallholder groundnut production in Southern Africa: Paired comparison of the windrow and Mandela cock techniques. Crop Protection 112: 18-23.
  • Research / Scholarly Interests:

    Tim has contributed to the development of new approaches to capacity strengthening of organizations and institutions, including methodologies for institutional analysis and change management. A key challenge is how to address the capacity needs of the different types of organizations involved in agricultural innovation platforms so that they can work together effectively and achieve their particular objectives. New insights have been gained through initiatives such as the Platform for Africa-Europe Partnership in Agricultural Research for Development.

    Tim is interested in the development and application of ecological approaches to insect pest and disease management. His work has involved integrating knowledge on the population dynamics of insect vectors of crop diseases with an understanding of temporal and spatial patterns of disease spread in order to bring about improved disease control. He has also carried out research on the economic, social and cultural factors which influence crop management decisions and on pest and disease control practices utilized by resource-poor farmers.

    He is interested in exploring ways to make agricultural information more relevant and more accessible to smallholder farmers, especially those located in remote areas. A particular interest is how to harness the potential of new information and communication technologies for the benefit of smallholders.
  • Awards:

    • In December 2022 Tim received a Recognition Award from RUFORUM for services to higher education and agricultural development in Africa.
Phone: +44 (0)1634 88 3199
Visiting Fellow in Capacity Strengthening and Partnerships
Dr Lionel Feugère
  • NRI Department: Livelihoods and Institutions Department
  • Qualifications: BA Physics, MSc, PhD, PGCHE equivalent
  • Biography:

    Dr Lionel Feugère joined the University of Greenwich in March 2019. He studied Acoustics, Signal Processing and Computer Science at the University Paris Sud 11, IIT-Bombay and University Paris VI. He passed his Master thesis in 2009 in the industry, specializing in automatic detection and classification of syllables for Karaoke games, and his Ph. D. degree in 2013 about the gestural control of synthesized singing voice, under the supervision of Christophe d’Alessandro at LIMSI-CNRS.

    He has worked with Boris Doval (Sorbonne University) on automatic categorization of various vocal productions from ethno-musicological audio recordings and with Christophe d’Alessandro and Olivier Perrotin (CNRS) on glottal flow models for singing voice synthesis. Then, he started to work on insect acoustic communication with Gabriella GIbson (NRI), investigating mosquito hearing with Olivier Roux (IRD) and the relationship between mosquito’s mating chase flight trajectory and acoustic behaviours with Rajat Mital (John Hopkins).

    He has taught signal processing and computer science in several universities and institutions in France, participated in general public conferences and co-created the Chorus Digitalis, a musical ensemble to illustrate the capabilities of their research in singing synthesis and gestural control, which toured worldwide in scientific and musical venues between 2011 and 2016.

    Previous positions:

    • 2017-2019 Research fellow in bioacoustics, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)
    • 2015-2016 Research fellow in singing synthesis, LIMSI-CNRS
    • 2014-2015 Research fellow in automatic audio indexing, UPMC
    • 2013-2014 Lecturer in signal processing (postgraduate studies), Engineering department, UPMC
    • 2009-2013 Ph.D. student and lecturer (undergraduate), LIMSI-CNRS ; Univ. Paris-Est Créteil
    • 2009 Research student in automatic speech recognition, Voxler
    • 2008 Research student in audio information retrieval, LIMSI-CNRS
    • 2007 Research student in music information retrieval, University of Pompeu Fabra
    • 2006 Research student in mechanical engineering, ENSTA-ParisTech
  • Selected Publications:

    D'Alessandro, Christophe, Delalez, Samuel, Doval, Boris and Feugère, Lionel (2019) Les instruments chanteurs. Acoustique & Techniques (89). pp. 36-43

    D'Alessandro, Christophe, Feugère, Lionel, Perrotin, Olivier, Delalez, Samuel and Doval, Boris (2018) Le contrôle des instruments chanteurs. In: 14ème Congrès Français d’Acoustique (CFA ’18). Société Française d'Acoustique, Le Havre, France, pp. 1249-1255

    Amy de la Bretèque, Estelle, Doval, Boris, Feugère, Lionel and Moreau-Gaudry, Louis (2017) Liminal utterances and shapes of sadness: Local and acoustic perspectives on vocal production among the Yezidis of Armenia. Yearbook for Traditional Music, 49. pp. 129-148. ISSN 0740-1558 (doi:https://doi.org/10.5921/yeartradmusi.49.2017.0129)

    Feugère, Lionel, d'Alessandro, Christophe, Doval, Boris and Perrotin, Olivier (2017) Cantor Digitalis: chironomic parametric synthesis of singing. EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, 2017 (2). ISSN 1687-4714 (Print), 1687-4722 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13636-016-0098-5, PDF: https://asmp-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s13636-016-0098-5)

    Goudard, Vincent, Genevois, Hugues and Feugère, Lionel (2017) Stratégie de contrôle de la hauteur dans les instruments de musique numériques. Revue Francophone d'Informatique et Musique (5) (HTML: http://revues.mshparisnord.org/rfim/index.php?id=425)

    Feugère, Lionel, d'Alessandro, Christophe, Delalez, Samuel, Ardaillon, Luc and Roebel, Axel (2016) Evaluation of singing synthesis: Methodology and case study with concatenative and performative systems. In: Proceedings Interspeech 2016. International Speech Communication Association, San Francisco, pp. 1245-1249. (doi:https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2016-1248, PDF: https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/Interspeech_2016/pdfs/1248.PDF)

    Feugère, Lionel, Doval, Boris and Mifune, Marie-France (2015) Using pitch features for the characterization of intermediate vocal productions. In: 5th International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis (FMA). University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris. ISBN 979-10-95209-00-3 (PDF: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02113080)

    Feugère, Lionel and d'Alessandro, Christophe (2015), Contrôle gestuel de la synthèse vocale: instruments Cantor Digitalis et Digitartic. Traitement du signal, 32 (4). pp. 417-442. (doi:https://doi.org/10.3166/ts.32.417-442, PDF: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01679397/document)

    D'Alessandro, Christophe, Feugère, Lionel, Le Beux, Sylvain, Perrotin, Olivier and Rilliard, Albert (2014) Drawing melodies: Evaluation of chironomic singing synthesis. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 135 (6). pp. 3601-3612. ISSN 0001-4966 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4875718)

    Goudard, Vincent, Genevois, Hugues and Feugère, Lionel (2014) On the playing of monodic pitch in digital music instrument. In: 40th International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) joint with the 11th Sound & Music Computing conference (SMC). Michigan Publishing, Athens, pp. 1418-1425 (PDF: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02113086/document)

    Feugère, Lionel and d'Alessandro, Christophe (2014) Rule-based performative synthesis of sung syllables. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. Goldsmiths, University of London, London, United Kingdom, pp. 86-87 (PDF: http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2014/nime2014_522.pdf)

    Feugère, Lionel, d’Alessandro, Christophe and Doval, Boris (2013) Performative Voice Synthesis for Edutainment in Acoustic Phonetics and Singing: A Case Study Using the “Cantor Digitalis”. In: Mancas M., d’ Alessandro N., Siebert X., Gosselin B., Valderrama C., Dutoit T. (eds) Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment. INTETAIN 2013. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 124. Springer, Cham (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03892-6_20, PDF: http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00932116/document)

    Feugère, Lionel and d’Alessandro, Christophe (2013), Digitartic: bi-manual gestural control of articulation in performative singing synthesis, 13th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Daejeon, Korea Republic, May 27-30, 2013, 331-336. ISSN 2220-4806 (PDF: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01000268/document)

    Le Beux, Sylvain, Feugère, Lionel and d’Alessandro, Christophe (2011), Chorus digitalis : experiment in chironomic choir singing, 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2011), Firenze, Italy, August 27-31, 2011, 2005-2008. ISSN 1990−9772 (PDF: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01712575/document)
  • Research / Scholarly Interests:

    Lionel Feugère’s research interests are the uses of computational audio techniques and interactive audio-visual systems 1) to study sound communication in insects, 2) to automatically retrieve information from audio recordings, and 3) to design new models of digital musical instrument.

    Recently, Lionel aims to gather behavioural entomology and acoustics data to understand the complex sound production and auditory communication found in some animals and to use this knowledge to reduce the impact of pest insects responsible for major public health issues, particularly in economically under-privileged countries.

    Since 2017, in a complementary collaboration with Professor of Medical Entomology Gabriella Gibson, Lionel is focusing on mosquitoes which are known both to have one of the most sensitive auditory organs among the invertebrates and to be vectors of serious diseases in humans and animals. They have worked with Olivier Roux from the Institut de Recherche pour le Dévelopement on the “ANOFEEL: How ANOpheles Females sEEk maLes?” project which aims to study visual, chemical and acoustic cues involved in mosquito communication. In 2019, Gabriella and Lionel were awarded a grant from the Human Frontier Science Program with Prof. Rajat Mital (PI) and Dr Jung-Hee Seo from John Hopkins University to decode the biomechanics of flight-tone based acoustic communication in mosquitoes.
  • Awards:

    2019 Three-year funding from the Human Frontier Science Program for Decoding the Biomechanics of Flight-Tone Based Acoustic Communication in Mosquitoes.

    2015 First Prize of the Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition.
One of the most prestigious International contest on new musical instruments (https://guthman.gatech.edu/), awarded by Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology (Atlanta) for the digital musical instrument of gesture-control singing voice synthesizer “Cantor Digitalis” (with C. d’Alessandro, B. Doval and O. Perrotin, http://cantordigitalis.limsi.fr/)

    2014 Finalists of the international competition on musical software (Lomus), awarded by the French society of computer music (AFIM) for the open-source digital musical instrument of gesture-control singing voice synthesizer “Cantor Digitalis”
(with C. d’Alessandro, B. Doval and O. Perrotin)

    2012 Young researcher award “Science et Musique”, awarded by IRISA lab and the French society of computer music (AFIM)
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Visiting Fellow
Martin Fowler
  • NRI Department: Livelihoods and Institutions Department
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Visiting Fellow
Professor Julian Quan
  • NRI Department: Livelihoods and Institutions Department
  • Qualifications: BA, MSc, PG Cert, PhD
  • Biography:

    Professor Quan has served with the Natural Resources Institute for over twenty years, becoming a member of staff of the University of Greenwich when the Institute joined the University in 1996. During this time he has worked as a development researcher and practitioner, undertaking a wide range of consultancy and applied research assignments for a variety of international clients, including the African Union, FCDO, the European Union, FAO, IIED, SIDA, UNDP, UN Habitat, the World Bank and a number of developing country governments. From 1998 – 2003 whilst with the University, Dr Quan was commissioned to work as a Land Tenure and Policy Adviser with DFID (now FCDO, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office). His previous postings have been with South Bank University's Local Economic Policy Unit, the Food Studies Group at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford (seconded to UNICEF and the Mozambican Government) and with Oxfam, in addition to periods and working in community and housing development work and teaching in Further and Adult Education in inner London.

    Professor Quan's work has focused on: land tenure, land rights and land policy; rural territorial development; rural institutions, policy and governance; local economic development; climate change adaptation and mitigation; rural livelihoods, community based natural resource management, development of smallholder agriculture, and rural extension in developing countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and also in Latin America.Professor Quan is a specialist in lusophone countries, speaking fluent Portuguese and working extensively in Mozambique and Brazil. He takes an interdisciplinary perspective in development studies, drawing on perspectives and approaches in sociology, anthropology, geography and political science. He has collaborated extensively with leading researchers in these fields, including Camilla Toulmin and Lorenzo Cotula (IIED), Klaus Deininger (World Bank lead economist), Julio Berdegué (RIMISP, Chile) and Arilson Favareto (a leading Brazilian rural sociologist at UFABC, Sao Paulo), in addition to collaborating with researchers from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex and from the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of Western Cape, South Africa.
  • Selected Publications:
  • Research / Scholarly Interests:

    Professor Quan's main research interests are in formal and informal institutions for natural resource and land management, land policy, agricultural development, and place-based or territorial development policies and approaches to rural development. I consider that my work shows the importance of sound institutional arrangements that respond to multiple stakeholder interests and manage them effectively are central to achieving more inclusive and sustainable rural economic and social development. In particular, decentralised institutional innovations at the meso- or landscape scale in a) farmer economic organisation, b) mechanisms and incentives for environmental management c) organisation of rural outreach / extension services, d) participatory decision making and governance arenas, and e) delivery and funding mechanisms for rural development programmes are essential in balancing agricultural development with the multiple demands on rural areas by establishing resilient development pathways that are socially inclusive and climate compatible.

    Professor Quan's work on land tenure showed the continuing importance of customary institutions and practices in land and natural resource management, and the scope and need for their fuller integration into more formalised and inclusive land tenure and administration systems. His own investigations and his broader research leadership, including the organisation of a series of international conferences on land rights in Africa, and facilitation of an African research / policy / practitioner network on land in Africa had significant influence on international development policy on land at the beginning of the 21st Century.

    The findings and insights of Professor Quan's work on land and on territorial development are important to establish and scale-up inclusive and sustainable rural development processes in developing countries, by balancing top-down sector-led with more bottom-up territorially focussed approaches, integrating the governance of land with broader territorial governance, and achieving multi-purpose sustainable land and natural use mosaics to meet social and economic need.
  • Awards:
    • Professor Quan is a member of the ESRC peer review college.
    • Since 2006 he has been Chief Technical Adviser to Mozambique Community Lands Initiative (2006 -2014).
    • He has also acted as a Technical adviser to African Union Land Policy Initiative.
    • He has been a member of the Royal Geographical Society – Institute of British Geographers
    • Professor Quan was jointly awarded the O'Riordan Prize for the best Masters Dissertation in Rural Resources and Environmental Policy (on the topic of climate change in Mozambique) at Wye College, London, 1991.
Phone: +44 (0)1634 88 3053
Professor of Land and Development Practice
Professor Glyn Vale
  • NRI Department: Livelihoods and Institutions Department
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Visiting Professor of Insect Behaviour
Professor Andrew Hall
  • NRI Department: Livelihoods and Institutions Department
  • Qualifications: BSc, MSc, PhD
  • Biography:

    Professor Andy Hall is a science and technology policy analyst with a specialization in the study and design of agriculture innovation processes, policies and practices.  Andy did pioneering research on the nature and performance of agricultural innovation systems and more recently has explored transformational change and innovation process agri-food systems and the nature of knowledge systems needed to support the transition to sustainable production and consumption systems. He has published extensively on these topics in peer review and non-academic literature.  Andy obtained a PhD from the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex in 1994. He has held positions at the Ugandan Agricultural Research Institute, the Natural Resources Institute (UK), the International Center for Research in the Semi-Arid Tropic (ICRISAT), India and the United Nations University Institute for Economics Research on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), Netherlands/ India, and the Open University, UK.  He also worked as a consultant advising numerous international agencies on effective innovation practice, programming and policy. Since 2014 Andy has been a Senior Principle Research Scientist in the Agriculture and Food business unit of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia.
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Visiting Professor in Innovation Systems
Professor Anthony Youdeowei
  • NRI Department: Livelihoods and Institutions Department
  • Qualifications: B.Sc, Ph.D. (London), FAAS, FTWAS, FESN, FSAN, MNIM
  • Biography:

    Anthony Youdeowei obtained his PhD in Agricultural Entomology at the University of London and his research involved field studies at the renowned Rothamsted Experimental Station (now Rothamsted Research).  He began his professional career as Entomologist at the West African Cocoa Research Institute.  He then took up an appointment as Lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Biology at the University of Ibadan, where he rose to become Professor of Agricultural Entomology in the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry from 1973 to 1990. At the University of Ibadan, he served as Head of the Department of Agricultural Biology, Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, Acting Vice Chancellor and Executive Director of the University of Ibadan Publishing House.

    In 1990, Anthony joined the West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA, now AfricaRice) in Bouake Cote d’Ivoire as Director of Training and Communications.  From October 1997 to July 2015, he was at the Africa Regional Office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Accra Ghana.  During this time he acted as Consultant Senior Integrated Pest Management Specialist, pursuing his interests in integrated production and pest management and Farmer Field Schools.

    Anthony has regularly advised African Governments, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, the World Bank Africa Region, GTZ , USAID and other development agencies in integrated production and pest management policies, planning and field implementation of IPPM field training programmes. He has been consultant to the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation (CTA) in The Netherlands in training, development and production of training and agricultural extension materials as well as agricultural communication including the management of agricultural journals. He was the Communication Consultant to the Convergence of Sciences Project of the Wageningen University which was implemented from 2008-2013 in Benin, Ghana and Mali.  He has also served as the Communications Consultant to the African Cashew Initiative project funded by GiZ.

    Anthony was involved with FARA in the assessment of African National Agricultural Research Systems and collaborated with (NRI) in the formulation of the FARA-led project, Strengthening Capacities for Agricultural Research and Development in Africa (SCARDA) which ran from 2007-2011. In 2009, he was appointed Visiting Professor of Capacity Strengthening in Agricultural Research for Development at NRI.

    In 2010 Anthony Youdeowei was appointed a member of the Governing Council of ICIPE, the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology Nairobi, Kenya and he is also a Trustee and Director of PAN-UK (Pesticides Action Network).  He is currently a Director of West African Book Publishers Limited Nigeria – one of the foremost educational publishers in West Africa.  He is the author of several books on agricultural education, integrated pest management and plant protection extension and training. His favourite pastime is writing text books in science and agriculture for children.
  • Selected Publications:
    • Keith Tyrell, Sheila Willis, Stephanie Williamson, Davo Simplice Vodouhe, and Anthony Youdeowei (2018) Chapter 23: Monitoring and Minimizing Health and Environmental Risks related to Pesticides. in Integrated management of insect pests: Current and future developments edited by Marcos Kogan and Leon Hegley. Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing.
    • Anthony Youdeowei, Paul Stapleton, Rodger Obubo (2015) Rédaction scientifique pour les chercheurs agricoles: Manuel de ressources pour la formation pp. 202.
    • Anthony Youdeowei, Paul Stapleton, Rodger Obubo (2012) Scientific Writing for Agricultural Research Scientists: A Training Resource Manual. New Edition English CTA Wageningen Netherlands. Pp. 190.
    • Arnold van Huis and Anthony Youdeowei (2009) Editors. Towards Enhancing Innovation Systems in Smallholder African Agriculture. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference for the CoS-SIS Programme. Elmina Ghana. June 2009. Published by the CoS-SIS International Coordination Committee, Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
    • Youdeowei, A. (2000) A Guidebook on Journal Publishing for Agriculture and Rural Development. INASP Oxford and CTA Holland.
    • Youdeowei, A. and Kwarteng J. (1995). Development of Training Materials in Agriculture. A course manual. WARDA and CTA, Bouake, Cote d'Ivoire, pp. 104. (English and French editions). New Edition French. CTA, Wageningen Netherlands.
    • Menyonga J.M., Bezuneh and A. Youdeowei (Editors) (1987) Food Grain Production in Semi-Arid Africa. OAU/STRC - SAFGRAD, Ouagadougou, pp. 701.
    • Youdeowei, A., Ezedinma, F.O.C and Onazi, O.C. (Editors) (1986) Introduction to Tropical Agriculture. Longman Group U.K., pp. 346.
    • Youdeowei, A. and Service, M.W. (1983) Pest and Vector Management in the Tropics (with particular reference to insects, ticks, mites and snails). Longman Group, U.K, pp. 399.
    • Youdeowei, A. (1977): A Laboratory Manual of Entomology. Oxford University Press, Ibadan, pp. 204.
  • Research / Scholarly Interests:
    • Integrated Production and Pest Management in Agriculture: Research, Development and Training, including Pesticides Management in IPM.
    • Agricultural Education, Training and Scientific Communication: (including Scientific Writing, Editing and Publishing).
    • Development of Training Materials in Agriculture.
    • African Agricultural Research and Development, Project Formulation and Evaluation.
  • Awards:
    • Winner of the 2015 International Plant Protection Award of Distinction (IPPAD)
    • Founding Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS), Nairobi, Kenya
    • Fellow of the Academy of Sciences of the Developing World (TWAS), Trieste, Italy
    • Fellow of the Entomological Society of Nigeria
    • Fellow of the Science Association of Nigeria
    • President, African Association of Science Editors (1990 -1992)
    • Member, International Advisory Board, International Center for the Communication of Science, Italy (1988 -1990)
Phone: +44 (0)1634 88 3199
Visiting Professor of Capacity Strengthening in Agricultural Research for Development
Professor G W Otim-Nape
  • NRI Department: Livelihoods and Institutions Department
  • Qualifications: BSc, MSc, PhD
  • Biography:

    Prof. Otim-Nape graduated with a BSc (Hons) Agric and MSc Agric. from Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda and a PhD in plant virology from the University of Reading, UK in 1993.  He has undertaken post-doctoral training at Wye College, University of London, at the Scottish Crops Research Institute (SCRI), and the JF Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA. 

    Professor Otim-Nape started his career as a scientific officer (Plant Pathologist) in 1976; became Senior Research Officer, Principal Research Officer, Deputy Director General, Director General NARO in 1983, 1993, 1999 and 2003 respectively, most of this period (1976-1999), spent on innovations development and management. He has published widely on agricultural development in international scientific journals, book chapters and monographs. Professor Otim-Nape has worked as a development planner (Country CAADP Processes Manager) for the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), an AU/NEPAD Programme from 2006 to 2008. He is the Founder and Chairman of the Africa Innovations Institute, a Non-Governmental Centre of Excellence based in Kampala, Uganda. The Institute focuses on science, technology and innovations in Africa.
  • Selected Publications:
    • Otim-Nape G.W., Rubahire-Akiiki C., Habassa G. Ogwal, S.; Mukasa B., Okello-Onen J, Ddumba D.S., 2016. Livelihoods and Climate Change in the Cattle Corridor of Uganda. Africa Innovations Institute, 46pp (Monograph).
    • Otim-Nape G.W., 2015. Enact the Uganda Biotechnology and Biosafety Bill without Further Delay. A Keynote address at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Uganda Women Parliamentarians Association (UWOPA), Imperial Royale Hotel, 13th October 2015, Kampala
    • Otim-Nape G.W., Tusiime F., Nambooze J., Atai B., Kwesigwa S., Okello M. 2015. Integrating Indigenous Food Systems in Agricultural Development for Community Livelihoods. A Keynote address at the 5th Annual Indigenous Food Fair, 23rd October 2015, UMA Conference Hall, Kampala
    • Mukasa, B., Ssengendo, M., Otim-Nape, W.G., Okello-Onen, J., Rubaire-Akiiki, C., Konde-Lule, J., Basalirwa, P. and Ogwal Byenek, S. Gender and adaptation to the risks of climate variability for livelihood security in the cattle corridor communities of Uganda. Presentation made at the ECOHESA 2014 Symposium, Johannesburg, South Africa, 10 – 12 March, 2014.
    • Wellard K., Sengendo M., Sseguya H., Ndagire S., Mugarura S. and Otim-Nape G.W. 2014. Impact Evaluation of ASARECA Operational Plan 1 and Development Objectives and Documentation of Lessons Learned: Final Report. ASARECA/NRI UoG and AfrII. ASARECA, Entebbe, 108pp. April 2014
    • Nimusiima Alex, Basalirwa C. P. K., Majaliwa J.G.M, Otim-Nape W., Okello-Onen J., Rubaire-Akiiki C., Konde-Lule J. and Ogwal-Byenek S (2013). Nature and dynamics of climate variability in the Uganda cattle corridor. African Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 7(8), pp. 770 – 782
    • Otim-Nape G.W, Pangech J., Kayanga L. and Omino J 2013. South Sudan Agriculture Sector Investment Plan: Crops Agriculture. A Report Submitted to the AU/NPCA, Africa Innovations Institute, Kampala, Uganda, 28 April 2013, 63pp
    • Otim-Nape G.W, Sabwa N., Phiri E. Sentongo P. and Omino J 2013. South Sudan Agriculture Stocktaking Report. A Report Submitted to the AU/NPCA, Africa Innovations Institute, Kampala, Uganda, 18 September 2012, 112pp
    • Otim-Nape G.W., Mr. J. Pali Shikhulu, Dr. M. Blackie R 2011. Road Map and Strategy for a Renewed National Agricultural Research System, Swaziland. Final Report to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Mbabani, Swaziland, July 2011, 177 pages.
    • Otim-Nape G.W., Dr J. Pali Shikhulu 2011. Assessment of the National Agricultural Research System of Swaziland. Final Report to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN. Swaziland 153 pages, July 2011, Mbabani, Swaziland
    • Otim-Nape W. and Methu J. 2010 Approaches for innovative implementation of Agricultural Research for Development in the ASARECA Sub-region. An ASARECA Occasional publication, 48 pp, ASARECA Entebbe, (Monograph).
    • Otim-Nape W. and Methu J. 2010. Case Studies of the Application of the IAR4D Principles in Implementing ASARECA Supported Sub-Projects and Gaps in IAR4D Capacity among Sub-Grantees.  An ASARECA Occasional publication, 76 pp, ASARECA Entebbe, November 2010 (Monograph).
    • Rweyemamu M, G.W Otim-Nape and D. Serwadda 2006. Infectious Diseases: Preparing For the Future -Africa. Office of Universities, Science and Innovations, Department of Trade and Industry, London. 103pp (www.foresight.gov.uk)
    • Mukiibi J. and Otim-Nape G.W. 2003. The Contribution of NARO to the Modernization of Agriculture in Uganda. The National Agricultural Research Organization, Entebbe, Uganda, 114pp (Monograph)
    • Otim-Nape G.W., A. Bua, J.M. Thresh, Y. Baguma, S. Ogwal, G.N. Ssemakula, G. Acola, Byabakama and A. Martin, 1997. Cassava Mosaic Virus Disease in Uganda: The Current Pandemic and Approaches to Control.Chatham, UK, NRI. 65pp.(Monograph)
    • Otim-Nape G.W. , J.M. Thresh, and D. Fargette 1995. Bemisia tabaci and Cassava Mosaic Virus Disease in Africa. In: Bemisia 1995: Taxonomy, Biology, Damage, Control, and Management. P 319-350 (Gerling D. and Mayer R.T., eds) Intercept, Andover, UK.
    • Osinde, C., Okello-Onen., Oryema-Origa, H. and Otim-Nape, G.W. Nutritional and chemical composition of selected indigenous plant species used as food in the cattle corridor of Uganda, a case study of Nakasongola and Nakaseke district. Lambert academic publishers.
    • Thresh J.M., Otim-Nape G.w., G. Fabres Y.S. Yaninek E., And Adipala E. (Eds) 1994. Integrating the management of pests, weeds and diseases of cassava in Africa African Crop Science Journal (Special Issue) Vol. 2 No.4 592 pp. Makerere University, Kampala. e
  • Research / Scholarly Interests:

    Professor George William Otim-Nape is one of East Africa’s leading agricultural research scientists. He has extensive experience in agricultural research for development, agricultural research management, and science and innovations policy. One of the major technological achievements of Professor Otim-Nape has been the control of cassava mosaic disease pandemic (CMD) which had threatened production in Uganda. A plant pathologist by training, Prof Otim-Nape has spent most of his career in agricultural research for development and has demonstrated strategic leadership and management of large agricultural research for development programmes. His current research is on agricultural innovations policy, agricultural institutional development, commercialization of staple African commodities, enhancing community adaptation and resilience to the impacts of climate change, and on integrated management of crops and livestock pests and diseases.
  • Awards:

    Dr. Otim-Nape was nominated in 1997 for the African Prize for Leadership for Sustainable End to Hunger, shortlisted and finally competed with seven other nominees four of whom were Presidents and Heads of State and Governments of African countries. The Prize was awarded to both President Chisano of Mozambique and Mrs Joyce Banda of Malawi. In 2006 he was nominated for the Yara Prize 2006.  Dr Otim-Nape was awarded Fellow of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences in 2003, the highest and most prestigious national scientific honour. He received the Lottery International Award “for his great intellect, diligence and energy he dedicated as head of the distinguished cassava research team, to the problem of cassava mosaic disease that nearly brought the crop to extinction with predictability dire consequences to the populations’ food security in the region”.  He also received a special recognition award from the Africa Crop Science Society and the Uganda National Farmers Federation for his exemplary leadership in fighting the cassava mosaic disease pandemic and contribution to food security in Uganda.  In 2008, he received the Presidential Award for Science Excellence from His Excellency The President of Uganda H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.
Phone: +44 (0)1634 88 3199
Visiting Professor of Agricultural Innovation Systems

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