 DENNIS GARRITYUnited States Chairman, Landcare International World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Tel:+254 20 722 4106 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +254 20 722 4106 end_of_the_skype_highlighting or via USA +1 650 833 6645 |
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| Dr Garrity is currently the Director General of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) based in Nairobi, Kenya. He serves as an ex-officio member on the Board. He is also presently serving as the Chair of the CGIAR Inter-Centre Working Group on Climate Change.
Prior to this, Dennis served as ICRAF’s Regional Coordinator for Southeast Asia Program from 1992 to 2002, based in Bogor, Indonesia. He created the regional programme, and led the systems improvement research in the region to develop and evaluate agroforestry alternatives to slash-and-burn agriculture. He worked extensively on the development of conservation-oriented agroforestry systems for sloping uplands. He has been active in the development of institutional innovations related to farmer-led organizations in sustainable agriculture and natural resources management, which led to the development of Landcare in the Philippines. He also served as agronomist and crop ecologist and head of the Agroecology Unit at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines between 1982 and 1992.
Dr Garrity has a BSc degree in Agriculture from Ohio State University, an MSc in Agronomy from the University of the Philippines at Los Baños, and a PhD in Crop Physiology from the University of Nebraska. |