Professor Ong has BSc and
PhD degrees in agricultural botany from the University
of Wales, Bangor, UK. He was a postdoctoral fellow at
the University of Wales and a crop physiologist at the
University of Nottingham, where he focussed on the
climatology of tropical crops in the semi-arid tropics.
He worked as a cropping systems agronomist and leader of
the
agronomy
group at the International crops Research Institute for
the Semi-Arid Tropics, Hyderabad, India, concentrating
on intercropping, agroforestry and rice-based cropping
systems. Spouse: Mair.
Current projects:
Improved Land Management in the Lake Victoria Basin
(Sida), catchment protection in Kenya, Management
of belowground interactions, Introduction of fodder
trees, Charcoal Policy.
Research interests:
Integrated watershed management; diversification of
trees in Ethiopia and Eriteria; charcoal policy reforms;
introduction
and management of temperate and tropical fruit trees
