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Barbara Becker Barbara Becker is the Managing Director of the North-South Centre of ETH Zurich, which deals with research collaboration with developing countries and countries in transition. A large part of the Centre’s activities is focused on collaboration with International Agricultural Research Centers of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).
Previously she occupied the position of Executive Manager of the Swiss Centre for International Agriculture (ZIL), which has as its mission to initiate, support and coordinate collaborative research by its members and partners that will enable resource-poor farmers in low-income countries to achieve sustainable improvements in their livelihoods. Her professional background is research in tropical agro-ecology. She obtained her postdoctoral qualification (Habilitation) while working as a senior scientist and lecturer at the Institute for Crop Science at the University of Kassel, Germany. As a field project officer in Peru with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) she investigated the vegetation ecology of Andean land use systems. Dr. Becker’s education included training in mathematics, botany and tropical agronomy at Gottingen University, Germany, where she received her PhD for research focused on edible wild plants in arid zones of Sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya and Senegal). Barbara Becker was previously a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Board for Soil Research and Management (IBSRAM, Thailand), and serves currently on the Board of Trustees of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA, Nigeria). She also represents Switzerland in the Steering Committee of the European Forum for Agricultural Research for Development (EFARD). She joined the AfricaRice Board in March 2007. Contact details North-South
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