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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.
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.
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.
Robert Douthwaite	Environment: agro-chemicals, ecology & environment, environmental impact, hydrology & water resources, institutions & organisations, monitoring & evaluation, project preparation & appraisal, wildlife & national parks.	Botswana, Burma, India, Indonesia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Myanmar, Rwanda, Somalia, Thailand, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Hugh J Gibbon	Rural Development: forestry-community, smallholder agriculture, participatory development, project management, land evaluations, land use planning, training & education, monitoring & evaluation, institutional & organisational development.	Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, India, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, Somalia, S. Sudan, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, UK and Zambia.
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 .......
J Mark Ritchie	Agriculture/Environment: crop protection, environmental impact, farming systems, food crops, institutional/organizational development, monitoring and evaluation, pest management, pest management, project management.	Bangladesh, Columbia, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Kazakhstan, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mexico, Niger, Peru, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uzbekistan and 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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