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List of Registered TAA Consultants

Below is a list of all registered TAA consultants, a summary of their expertise, and a link to further details and a short CV (Word format). Potential employers are advised to make direct contact with consultants for more comprehensive information. 

Consultant

Principal discipline & subsidiary fields

Country experience

Trevor Abell Forestry: agroforestry, forestry (community), forestry (plantation), land evaluation, participatory development, project management, project preparation, regional master planning.  Argentina, Bangladesh, Belize, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Nepal, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, UK and Zambia.
Hugh Bagnall-Oakley Agriculture/Horticulture/Rural Development: extension, income Generation/SMEs, institutional/organisation development, marketing, monitoring and evaluation, participatory development, PRA techniques, project management. Australia, Burundi, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Libya, Namibia, Papua New Guinea, Somalia, Tunisia, Uganda, United Kingdom, Vanuatu
Sally Bastow Project Management: administration/ accountancy, agricultural economics, computer application, extension, gender in development, monitoring & evaluation, participatory development, training Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Sudan, Uganda, Zambia
David W Billing Project Management: Agro-Forestry; Forestry: Community; Land Evaluation/Land Use Planning; Land Husbandry; Monitoring & Evaluation; Rural Development; Tree Crops; Watershed Management Belgium, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Denmark, Estonia, Guyana, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malawi, Nepal, Philippines, Sudan, Thailand, Trinidad, UK, Vietnam
Peter G Bisset Agriculture: Agronomy, Extension, Farming Systems, Project Management, Project Preparation/Appraisal, Research Belize, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Congo DRC, Ethiopia, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Nepal, Senegal, South Africa, Swaziland, Syria, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Yemen
Robert Black  Agriculture/ Environment /Training & Education: agrochemicals, crop protection, horticulture, institutions & organisations, public sector reform (including legal and regulatory issues), quarantine, training, tree crops. Belarus, Belgium, Belize, China, Ethiopia, Georgia, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kenya, FYR Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Mauritius, Nepal, Poland, Reunion, Russian Federation, Seychelles...
Michael F Bolton  Rural Development: agronomy, extension, genetic resources, rice, NGOs, participatory development, aquaculture, GIS. Cambodia, Indonesia, Italy, Laos, Mali and Niger.
Richard Bond Rural Development: development planning, land evaluation & land use planning, micro finance, monitoring and evaluation, participatory development, rural infrastructure, rural livelihood systems, smallholders and settlement.  Australia, Bangladesh, Cyprus, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Malawi, Malaysia, Mauritius, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Uganda and Zambia.
David Bourn Project Management / Agriculture / Ecology / Environment: Development planning, ecology & environment, editing & publishing, farming systems, geographical information systems, mapping/survey, project preparation, remote sensing, research watershed management, wildlife/ national parks Botswana, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mali, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Niger, Philippines, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Viet Nam, Zimbabwe
William J Bradfield Agricultural Engineering: institutions & organizations, irrigation, mechanization, participatory development, rural infrastructure, soil and water conservation, watershed management, water supplies (rural).  East Timor, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, Laos, Nigeria, Philippines, Somalia, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Uganda and Yemen.
David F H Giles Agriculture/Irrigation: agronomy, soil & water conservation, irrigation, research, extension, land reclamation and training. Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Burma, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iraq, Kosovo (Serbia), Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Somaliland, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Turkmenistan ......
Timothy R Jackson Agricultural/Rural Engineering: development planning, irrigation, land husbandry, project preparation & appraisal, rural development, rural infrastructure, soil & water conservation, water supplies (rural), watershed management. Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cameroon, China, Dominica, Ethiopia, Georgia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo Territory, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique ..... 
Liz Kiff Rural Development: agroforestry, food crops, monitoring & evaluation, participatory development, project management, research, rural livelihood systems, soil/water conservation and watershed management.  Bhutan, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Nepal, The Philippines, Tajikistan and Zimbabwe.
Bruce King Mapping / GIS: land evaluation and land use planning, project management, remote sensing. Belize, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, Liberia, Namibia, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Zambia.
Geoffrey R A Kirk Agriculture: rural development, livestock, animal production, project preparation & appraisal, range management, pasture & fodder crops, farming systems, environmental impact, M&E. Antigua, Argentina, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Bermuda, Botswana, China, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Grenada, Holland ......
Alan C Maddison Agriculture: agroforestry, agronomy, cocoa, crop protection, monitoring & evaluation, plant pathology, project preparation & appraisal, tree crops. Argentina, Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia, Ecuador, Ghana, Mexico, Mozambique, Nigeria, Paraguay, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, UK, Uruguay and USA.
Ruth C Malleson Rural Development / Sociology: environment, agriculture, forestry, rural sociology, community, participatory development, rural livelihood systems, ecology & environment, wildlife & national parks, agroforestry. Botswana, Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria, India and Indonesia.
John P McWilliam Project Management: agroforestry, cocoa, extension, fruit, oil palm, plantation/estate management, rice, rural development. Congo, England, France, Ghana, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone and Thailand.
Neil Morton  Agriculture: agrochemicals, crop protection, entomology, marketing, pest management, horticulture (peat), project management, project appraisal, quarantine. Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, France, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, India, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Laos ......
Jamie Newton Rural Development: irrigation, participatory development, procurement, project management, project preparation & appraisal, rural infrastructure, rural roads & transport, water supplies (rural). Australia, Botswana, China, Ethiopia, Fiji, France, Georgia, Ghana, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Ukraine and Zambia.
Robin A Parker Project Management: needs assessment, agricultural education & extension, community-based rural development, budgetary planning & financial control, appropriate technology. Afghanistan, Germany, Liberia, Netherlands, Oman, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Turkmenistan, West Africa and Zambia.
John H Pratt Project Management: development planning, economics, financial analysis, marketing, monitoring and evaluation, organizations & institutions, participatory development, project preparation/appraisal. Belize, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Malawi, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
James Ramsay Environment/Forestry: environmental impact, community, hydrology & water resources, land reclamation, participatory development, project preparation & appraisal, soil/water conservation, watershed management, wildlife & national parks. Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Guyana, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Laos, Lesotho, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines .......
John James Rhodes Project Management / Agriculture: Agronomy; Credit/Banking; Extension; Farming Systems; Irrigation; Monitoring & Evaluation; Plantation/Estate Management; Project Preparation/Appraisal Belize, Costa Rica, Egypt, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritius, Russia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia.
Timothy K Roberts  Farm Management: animal production, emergency relief, food security, livestock, NGOs, project preparation/appraisal, rural development.  Belarus, Burundi, Costa Rica, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, North Korea, Tanzania, Uganda, Venezuela and Zambia.
Geoffrey Rockliffe-King Economics: development planning, food security, institutional & organisational development, monitoring & evaluation, participatory development, project preparation & appraisal, rural development, smallholders & settlement. Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, China, Ethiopia, Fiji, French Polynesia, FYR Macedonia, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lesotho .......
Christopher Strong  Agricultural Engineering: administration & accountancy, agro-industry, emergency relief, farm management, forestry & plantation, NGOs, procurement, project management, rural roads & transport. DR Congo, Kenya, Liberia, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.
James P Sutcliffe Rural Development: ecology & environment, GIS/land information, land evaluation & land use planning, participatory development, project management, remote sensing, watershed management.  Egypt, Ethiopia, Liberia, Malawi, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Nigeria, Uganda and Vietnam.
Euan F Thomson Livestock: animal nutrition, pasture & fodder crops, farming systems, marketing, rural livelihood systems, participatory development, project management, research, rural development. Afghanistan, Egypt, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Tunisia and Uzbekistan.
Anthony J Treen  Agriculture: cotton, crop protection, extension, participatory development, project management, project appraisal, public sector reform, research. Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Egypt, Iraq, Swaziland, Switzerland and Tanzania.
Keith J Virgo Project Management/Agriculture: development planning, eco-tourism, institutions & organizations, land evaluation & land use planning, land husbandry, PRA techniques, procurement, project preparation & appraisal, publicity & publications, rural development and participatory development. Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Barbados, China PR, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Liberia, Mexico, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Thailand, United Arab Emirates ....
 

 

 

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