| Expert Name | Dr. Christoph Studer |
| Title | Dr. |
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| City | Zollikofen |
| Country | Swiss |
| Telephone | +41 31 910 21 63 |
| Email | christoph.studer(at)bfh.ch |
| Work Experience | Professor and project leader (e.g. "Response-Inducing Sustainability Evaluation" RISE) at the Swiss College of Agriculture; numerous international consultancy mandates, mainly in program/project development, backstopping and evaluation for various development organizations; coordinating lead author in IAASTD CWANA sub-global report. Soil-Plant-Water Relations Specialist and project leader "Soil Conservation and Land Management" at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Aleppo, Syria; ICARDA's focal point for UNCCD; management, coordination and backstopping of various projects. Associate expert and program leader, Agroforestry Program, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) Sahelian Center, Niger. |
| Qualifications | Diploma in Agricultural Sciences, Effects of aluminum toxicity on maize and sorghum, ETH Zurich, 1986; PhD, Effects of plant nutrition and water stress on crop development, ETH Zurich, 1993. |
| Number of Publications | 20 |
| Awards | SFIAR (Swiss Forum for International Agricultural Research) Award 2008 |
| Other Activities | 1. Collaborative watershed management in Kahmard (Bamyan province), Afghanistan (information and planning mission for Helvetas, 2008)
2. Review, backstopping and planning of the Korean-Swiss Agricultural Support Programme of SDC in North Korea (2002-2006)
3. Development of irrigation and soil conservation extension messages, Kyrgyzstan (2004)
4. Drafting the Framework Paper / Launching Meeting for the UNCCD Thematic Programme Network 4 (TPN4) on "Water Resources Management for Agriculture in Arid, Semi-Arid and Sub-Humid Areas" of the Asia Regional Action Programme (2002)
5. Studer C, Zöbisch MA and Tutwiler R, 2000. Land degradation – Nature and consequences, reasons behind, and strategies to address it. Regional Workshop on “Degradation and Rehabilitation of Marginal Lands in the Arab Region”, Cairo, 2-4 July, 2000. |
| Publications | 1. Mizyed N, Shatnawi R, Studer C (CLAs), 2008. Looking Forward: Role of AKST in Meeting Development and Sustainability Goals. Chapter 5, Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) Report, IAASTD International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development.
2. Studer C, Hu Y, Schmidhalter U, 2007. Evaluation of the differential osmotic adjustments between roots and leaves of maize seedlings with single or combined NPK-nutrient supply. Functional Plant Biology 34:228–236.
3. Karajeh F, Ryan J, and Studer C (eds.), 2002. On-farm Soil and Water Management in Central Asia. Proceedings of an International Workshop, 17-19 May 1999, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Aleppo, Syria: ICARDA. 164 pp.
4. van Duivenbooden N, Pala M, Studer C, Bielders CL, Beukes DJ, 2000. Cropping systems and crop complementarity in dryland agriculture to increase soil water use efficiency: A review. Nether-lands Journal of Agricultural Science 48:213-236.
5. Schmidhalter U, Evéquoz M, Camp K-H, Studer C, 1998. Sequence of drought response of maize seedlings in drying soil. Physiol. Plant. 104: 159-168 |
| Discipline | Natural Resource Management |
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