Anthony Whitbread is Program Director of the Livestock, Climate, Environment (LCE) program, and Country Representative, Tanzania at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). LCE works on research for development on topics such as climate adaptation and mitigation in smallholder livestock systems across Africa and Asia. He was previously the Director for ICRISAT‘s dryland systems work based in India (2014-2019) and in Tanzania 2020-2021. His role in the CGIAR was preceded by a long research career in the crop-livestock systems of semi-arid Australia, SE Asia and Southern Africa with CSIRO Australia and as a Professor (W3) of Crop Production Systems in the Tropics at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen, Germany. Anthony’s expertise covers agronomy and soil science, farm systems analysis, crop modelling, climate risk management, spatial analysis all focused on research for development in smallholder farming systems. He maintains high science credibility as a highly citated author, and as an educator, being the supervisor of several postdocs and PhD students through roles as Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia and continuing supervisory roles at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen, Germany. He holds a B.Rur Sc.(Hons) and a PhD from the University of New England, Australia in Soil Science and Agronomy (1997).
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Climate change impacts on agricultureAgronomic Practices and Intercropping SystemsAgricultural Innovations and PracticesAgriculture and Rural Development ResearchSoil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics