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Who
is involved in the Yaounde Initiative Foundation? |
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| The Yaounde Initiative Foundation was set up by a team of African and European personnel. Betweem them, they have a potent blend of scientific knowledge, technical expertise and developmental and managerial abilities. Other national and international specialists on the Cameroon Scientific Advisory Panel provide valuable technical support to the Foundation. |
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| After the inaugural Board Meeting of the Yaounde Initiative Foundation, Silwood Park, UK | |
Board Members
Professor Graham Matthews,
Technical Director
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Graham
Matthews is Emeritus Professor of Pest Management at Imperial College
London and Technical Director of the Yaounde Initiative Foundation.
His career began working on Integrated Pest Management of cotton in
Africa from 1958 - 1972. Since then he has specialised in pesticide
application technology as part of IPM at the International Pesticide
Application Research Centre (IPARC) located at Imperial College London,
covering a range of crops and vectors of human diseases. He was a
member of the UK Advisory Committee on Pesticides. His role is to
help develop integrated vector management strategies alongside effective
crop protection in Africa. Professor Matthews is a principal editor
of the international scientific journal Crop Protection and is author
of several books on pest management and pesticide application. |
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Originally a specialist in Integrated Pest Management from Wye College, London, Pierre Baleguel has wide practical and professional administrative African experience. He is a former Principal Technical Adviser to the Minister of Agriculture and brings with him 20 years of in depth knowledge of African rural development and programme administration. |
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Mr
Terry Wiles is a tropical agronomist with wide international experience
of rural development and technology transfer. He began his career
at Katumani Research Station in Kenya and later spent 20 years as
a technical manager in international industry and as an independent
consultant designing and leading development programmes on cropping
systems in Australia, and Latin America. Terry Wiles has initiated
and managed many assignments and projects throughout the world, most
of which relate to sustainable farming, crop protection and the environment.
His experience covers government and private sector organisations
and offers broad experience and a sound understanding of practical
development in emerging countries. |
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A pest management specialist with 20 years experience of research, consultancy and training in over 30 African, Asian and Middle Eastern countries. His background draws together agricultural zoology and agricultural engineering to produce appropriate solutions that are safe to humans and the environment. He brings skills in logistics, management and implementation of large-scale operations for control of pests and human-disease vectors, as well as capability in designing and implementing multi-level participatory training strategies. He is currently Adviser to the UK Government's Pesticide Safety Directorate on Pesticide Application and Fate in the Environment and has ongoing work with the EU's Pesticides Initiative Programme, designing dissemination strategies and materials to promote adoption of better practice by small-scale farmers. |
Scientific
Advisory Panel
| Professor Chris Curtis London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | |
| Dr Rene Owona Essomba Gobal Fund Programme, Cameroon: (HIV /aids, Malaria, tuberculosis) | |
| Professor Robert Cheke - blackfly specialist |
Professor Robert Cheke is a pest and vector control entomologist, and ornithologist. He has extensive experience on control of Simulium blackflies that transmit river blindness (onchocerciasis), as well as locusts and other migratory pests. He has also carried out environmental impact assessments of tsetse fly control operations and bird pest control programmes. He is Professor of Tropical Zoology, University of Greenwich, and Deputy Programme Leader of its MSc in Natural Resources. He has a postgraduate qualification in higher education and has experience in many countries of East, West and southern Africa. |
| Professor Same Ekobo Faculty of Medicine, University of Yaounde | |
| Dr Morton Andreasen, malaria mosquito specialist |
Dr Morten Andreasen is a medical entomologist with particular expertise in control of mosquito vectors of disease, especially anopheline malaria mosquitoes, but also other species of insect and arachnid disease vectors. He is study unit organiser for MSc course modules at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine involving control of infectious disease and public health. He has held entomologist positions at the University of Oxford and the Danish Bilharziasis Laboratory. He is also consultant expert on mosquito management for the Danube Wetlands Restoration Project in Bulgaria. Dr Andreasen has worked with mosquitoes since the late 1980’s, specialising in the development and application of appropriate new control measures, and the evaluation of their impact. |
| Dr Sarah Olembo IAPSA, African Union, Yaounde | Sarah A.H. Olembo is the Assistant Director of the Inter-African Phytosanitary Council of the African Union, formerly the Organisation of African Unity. The Inter-African Phytosanitary Council (IAPSC) is one of the Regional Plant Protection Organisation, with functions similar to those of EPPO and other RPPOs in other continents. She presently deals with Plant Quarantine and Phytosanitary laws and regulations in Africa and is responsible at policy level for the Harmonisation, Advisory as well as Planning and generation of phytosanitary information for dissemination throughout Africa. Key among her recent achievements is revising and updating the African phytosanitary convention to bring it in line with similar International treaties (IPPC of FAO etc) and publication of Quarantine Pest lists for African. |
| Jerry Cooper, Natural Resources institute, University of Greenwich, UK | Jerry Cooper is a pest management specialist with 30 years experience in crop protection, especially in control of major vegetable crop pests. He conducts and manages research to improve safety and sustainability of pest control, and advises DFID on this subject. He lectures on Masters Courses at Medway, and delivers training overseas on pest management and insect vector control. He has worked in many countries, including Kenya, Yemen, China, India, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Somalia and Cameroon. |
| Dr A Manguelle-Dicoum Biyong Foundation for Research and Education |
