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.