Agricultural Sciences

Thematic Areas for Consultancy

  • Climate Change Management,
  • Rural Household Nutrition and Land Distribution.
  • Food Security & Agricultural Productivity
  • Agribusiness & Marketing,
  • Rural Agricultural Extension Services
  • Environmental & Resource Economics
  • Animal Nutrition
  • Reproductive Physiology
  • Breeding and Genetics,
  • Aquaculture sciences
  • Household Nutrition Security
  • Molecular Breeding
  • Crop Modelling
  • Maize Improvement
  • Soil and Water Management
  • Sustainable Land and Natural Resource Management,
  • Remote Sensing,
  • Pedometrics
  • Soil Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate

Project Experience

  • FAO-CASU Soil Health and Water Quality Monitoring Project (April 2015-Present)
  • Partner institution in Peanut and Mycotoxin Innovation Lab Project on aflatoxin management in groundnuts in Southern Africa (2013-Present)
  • SADC: Agricultural Productivity Project for Southern Africa (2013-Present)
  • Provides Leadership for SADC Land and Water Management
  • Lead Institution for CAADP Pillar I on Sustainable Land and Water Management (2007-2014)
  • Environmental Impact Assessment of Luanshya Copper Mine (2007) Development of new open-pit copper mine
  • Assessment of conservation farming techniques for integrated crop and livestock in the improvement of smallholder farms- Scaling up Climate Smart Agriculture- Funded by FAO. Jan 2017 to December 2018.
  • Delivering crop yield Nowcast and Forecasts by integrating satellite data and crop modelling in sub-Saharan Africa. PEER project. Funded by USAID. Jan 2017 to December 2019.
  • Agricultural Productivity Programme for Southern Africa (APPSA) project. Sub-project Title: Development of Common Bean and Cowpea with Bruchid Tolerance. 2005 to 2018.
  • Food security in rural Zambia: Integrating traditional fruit and vegetable crops in smallholder agroforestry systems. Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL); January 2017 – April 2020.
  • Gendered impacts of input subsidy policies on household crop diversity and food security: evidence from Zambia. Funded by: African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), March 2018 – 2019.
  • Development of Cowpea-Based Complementary Foods to Contribute to Household Nutrition Security in Siavonga, Lundazi and Lilongwe; Project funded by the Agricultural Productivity Programme for Southern Africa (APPSA).
  • Gendered Impacts of Input Subsidy Policies on Household Crop Diversity and Food Security: Evidence from Zambia. In partnership with the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC); 2018 – 2019.
  • Impact of the Amatheon outgrower scheme on smallholder livelihoods. In partnership with the German Development Institute; 2018 – 2020.