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Dr. Richard Lee TinsleyCurriculum VitaeCAREER OBJECTIVE:A leadership role for facilitating emerging country governments, using innovative analytical skills and problem solving for evaluating agriculture constraints that, when communicated to the government, will allow for better promotion of the economic well-being of the smallholder agriculture producers.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:Expatriate Technical Assistance Advisor. The overall professional experience of Dr. Tinsley, throughout most of his career, has been an expatriate technical assistance advisor, which he defines as primarily the task of facilitating and promoting the accomplishments of his host country clients, and assuring that the administrative ownership of all technical output remains with the client. This assures the clients maximum utilization of any technical output, and future opportunities for the consulting entity.
LONG TERM ASSIGNMENTS:1998-2000 Agronomy Advisor, Madibira Smallholder Agriculture Development Project, Mbeya Region, Tanzania. Contact: PO Box 78 Mafinga, Iringa Region, Tanzania. cmwakyembe@yahoo.co.uk. Donor: African Development Bank. 1995-1998 Visiting Professor, Agriculture Systems Field of Study, Asian Institute of Technology, PO Box 4, Klong Luang, Pathumthani, Thailand. deanserd@ait.ac.th. 1991-1994 Agronomy Advisor and Team Leader, Egypt Rice Research Program, Cairo and Kifr el Shiekh, Egypt. Contact: IRRI, DAPO Box 7777 Metro Manila, Philippines. irri@cgiar.org. Donor: USAID. 1986-1990 Adaptive Research Agronomy Advisor and Acting National Coordinator for Adaptive Research Program, Malawi Agriculture Research and Extension Project, Lilongwe, Malawi. Contact: Department of Soil and Crop Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA. Donor: USAID 1984-1986 Agronomy Consultant Pakistan On-Farm Water Management Project, and Command Water Management Project. Lahore, Pakistan. Contact: Department of Soil and Crop Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA Donor: World Bank and USAID. 1977-1979 Cropping Systems Advisor, Sri Lanka Rice Research Project, Kandy, Sri Lanka. Contact: IRRI, DAPO Box 7777 Metro Manila, Philippines. irri@cgiar.org. Donor: USAID 1975-1977 Cropping Systems Agronomist, IRRI, Los Banos Philippines. Contact: IRRI, DAPO Box 7777 Metro Manila, Philippines. irri@cgiar.org. Donor: IDRC 1974-1975 Cropping Systems Advisor, Viet Nam Rice Research Project. Contact: IRRI, DAPO Box 7777 Metro Manila, Philippines. irri@cgiar.org. Donor: USAID
CONSULTANCIES:2005 IFDC, Distribution & Logistic Specialist, Agriculture Input Supply Program (AISP) Kabul, Afghanistan. October – December. dedwards@ifdc.org. Winrock’s Farmer-to-Farmer program, working their joint project with IDE on micro-irrigation and marketing in Zambia. May – June, DMcgrew@winrock.org ACDI/VOCA’s Farmer-to-Farmer program evaluating the potential for drip micro-irrigation in the Rural Community in Development (RUCID) project in Uganda, June-July, sly@acdivoca.org 2003 Consultancy to USAID post conflict mission to Iraq to prepare for the agriculture reconstruction of Iraq. International Resources Group, irgltd@irgltd.com 2001 Desk Supervision. African Development Bank, Zambia and Ivory Coast. Direct Hire. 4 months. Contact: OCDA, African Development Bank, Rue Joesph Anoma, 01 BP 1387 Abidjan 01 Ivory Coast. S.moussa@afdb.org. 1994 Potential Collaboration Between IRRI and the Rice Research Programs in the Commonwealth of Independent States. IRRI, Philippines. 3 month. 1994 Position Paper on Rice in Sub-Sahara Africa for Sustainable African Agricultural Technology Systems Project. Tropical Research and Development, Inc. Gainesville, FL. Donor: USAID. 1 month 1990 Agronomy Consultant. Interim Evaluation of West Beheira Settlement Scheme, Egypt, IFAD, Rome, Italy. 1 Month
PARTICIPATORY APPROACH:Virtually all of Dr. Tinsley professional work has involved farm level evaluations using various participatory procedures as appropriate for the specific assignment to obtain farmer input into the development process. He tends to emphasis: a. Informal surveys for getting basic ideas,
EDUCATION:1974 PhD. Soils and Tropical Agriculture, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. Dissertation: Surface Chemistry of Calcium and Phosphorus Retention in Selected Acid Tropical Soils from the Republic of Viet Nam. 1971 MSc. Agronomy, Soil Classification & Agriculture Engineering. University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Non-Thesis 1965 BA. Mathematics. Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
REFERENCES:Dr. Jack Fenwick, Associate Professor, Soils and Crop Science Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, Phone: +1-970-491-6517. Fax: +1-303-491-0564. Email: j.fenwick@colostate.edu.
PERSONAL DATA:Date of Birth: April 20, 1943
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