Expert in agriculture
Honduras
- Advised the Secretariat of Agriculture and Livestock in Honduras, and its collaborates and other national agencies through financial sponsors ONGs to make the most efficient use of non-renewable resources and on-farm resources and integrate, where appropriate, natural biological cycles and controls.
- Provide training to help young researchers make the transition from the lab bench to understand and apply research in the topics of Integrated Pest Management (IPM), Soil Conservation, Water Quality/Wetlands, Cover Crops and Crop/landscape diversity.
- Provide technical assistance, training, and extension services through several subprojects, based on technically and targeted use of funds and/or incremental food security plans. These subprojects aimed to increase food and agricultural production, introduce high-value crops and increase market links to small-scale farmers.
- I collected and preserved local creole varieties (seed germplasm) to increase their yield by using conventional Plant Breeding Principles and Techniques.
- And in the Agricultural Pan American School (Zamorano) at Honduras with support of the Cornell International Institute for food, agriculture, and development (CIFFAD), I worked in methods of corn breeding.
- I gained experience on Promoting Integrated Ecosystem Management by demonstrating that with the implementation of integrated ecosystem and watershed management is sustainable for rural development thru conservation of biodiversity, carbon sequestration and protection of national hydrological resources.
