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Collaborators - listed alphabetically by last name

Suleimen Adbul – Nigeria
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University
Email: sdabdul@atbu.edu.ng
Countries of interest: US, Ghana, Niger and Mali
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner:  Farming systems, livestock nutrition and agro-forestry in arid and semi-arid environment, integrated insect and striga pest management in legumes, water management and small holder mechanization of grain legumes and cereals, soil fertility and soil health with emphasis on nitrogen fixation in grain legumes. All the skills are particularly needed in a US collaborating institution.

James Adeson – Nigeria
NAERLS/Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
Email: jamadeosun@yahoo.com
Countries of interest: Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner:  System agronomy/Biotechnology

Félix Kouelo Alladassi – Benin
University of Abomey-Calavi/Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
Email: felix.kouelo@gmail.com
Countries of interest: All countries of west, central and north Africa
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Nutrient use efficiency, Biological nitrogen fixation by legumes, Rhizobial and mycorrhizal biofertilizers, Efficiency of legume-based crop association-rotation, Agroecological practices, Soil and water conservation, Sustainable land management, Soil microbiology, Soil fertility management, Land evaluation.

Sven Anders – Canada
University of Alberta, Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology
Email:sven.anders@ualberta.ca
Countries of interest: Any
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner:  I am an agricultural economist interested in legume/technology adoption behavior of agricultural producers in the context of diversification, dietary protein supply and climate change adaptation.

Dymphina Andima – Kenya
Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization 
Email: dymphinaandima@yahoo.com
Countries of interest: USA University, Other
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner:  USA University, sociologist, social impact assessment, gender analysis, farm enterprise analysis, climate change. Partner with a background and experience with bean varietal development, adoption, impact assessment and social analysis. 

James Asibuo – Ghana
Crops Research Institute (CSIR)
Email: jyasibuo@gmail.com
Countries of Interest: US, Mali, Tanzania, Kenya, Burkina Faso
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Cropping System agronomy, Biotechnology, Plant Breeding and genetics, Crop physiology, nutrition or related fields, and Agricultural Economist

Eric Atakora  – Ghana
Valley View University
Email: eric.atakora@vvu.edu.gh
Countries of Interest: USA
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: post-harvest/food system engineering, design of agricultural machnes, entomology

Edward Baars – Nigeria
Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
Email: e.baars@cgiar.org
Countries of interest: Uganda
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner:  USA University: the partner preferably to have a background and experience in technology dissemination/transfer, nutrition-food processing, agricultural marketing, economic analysis, adoption, impact assessment, situational analysis among others with experience in working on grain legumes.

Tadius Banda – Zambia
Patents and Companies Registration Agency (PACRA)
Email: tadiusmdzuteba@gmail.com
Countries of interest: Zambia
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Seeking collaborators specifically from the Eastern Province of Zambia

Wabi Bajo – Ethiopia
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research
Email: wabib2014@gmail.com
Countries of interest: USA and any target country of the project. 
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Socio-economist, nutritionist

Antoine Barro – Burkina Faso
Université de Dédougou
Email: antoine.barro@yahoo.fr
Countries of interest: Burkina Faso
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner:  Plant breeder (cowpea), Farming systems, livestock nutrition and in arid and semi-arid environment, integrated insect, diseases and striga pest management in legumes, cultural practices, tillage systems, water management and small holder mechanization of grain legumes , soil fertility  with emphasis on nitrogen fixation in grain legumes.

Onesphore Birhaheka – Democratic Republic of the Congo
Agriculture Moteur de Développement SARL
Email: esphorejim5@gmail.com or contact@agrimod.net
Countries of interest: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Off-farm, legume-based income generating activities for women, youth, and other often-marginalized groups, and to increase consumption of legume-based products as part of quality diets.

Matthew W. Blair – United States
Tennessee State University (TSU)
Email: mblair@tnstate.edu
Countries of interest: East or West Africa, Central and South America, USA
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: MSI partner for project on cowpeas or common bean from the 1890s Land Grant University in Tennessee with interest and capacity in abiotic stress tolerance and varietal deployment as well as social issues for uptake and agronomic issues for higher efficiency and production, inter-cropping and agroforestry systems welcome.

Seyni Boureima – Niger, Nigeria, USA University
University Dan Dicko Dankoulodo of Maradi
Email: b.seyni@gmail.com
Countries of interest: Niger, Nigeria 
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Agronomy (cropping systems, nutrient management), physiology (soil-crop-water relations), breeding cowpea specialist.

Velindah Chibomba – Zambia
Zambia Agriculture Research Institute
Email: velindahchibomba@gmail.com
Countries of interest: USA University, USA Minority University, African countries
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: We are looking for partners with experience in cowpea variety development, especially working with Marker Assisted Breeding in Cowpea. We are also looking for partners working on improving cowpea seed systems, market improvement and postharvest storage.

Selorm Dorvlo – Ghana, West Africa
University of Ghana
Email: sydorvlo@ug.edu.gh
Countries of interest: Africa and South America
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: I am an expert in Agricultural Mechanization. I am interested in the proper use of machinery, designing machinery, and ensuring effective mechanization of legume production. I am seeking a collaborator in the US and collaborators within West and Southern Africa for a proposal aimed at designing machinery for the cowpea value chain. I am also interested in collaborating on other projects around mechanizing the legume production value chain.

Salif Doumbia – Mali
Institut d'Economie Rurale (IER)
Email: doumbiasalif@gmail.com
Countries of interest: Mali (field), Michigan State University (technical support)
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner:  The systems researches numbering 04 and 04 technicians. The available offices. All partners are involved in on-farm testing work with farmers, with particular attention from the IER fieldwork, Michigan State University on modeling and system integration aspects. IER offers a large "laboratory" to study the dynamics of technology and tool scale-up. By relying more on so-called test experiments, we aim to better understand the adaptation of technologies tested by farmers.

Godfrey Ejimakor – United States of America 
Carolina A&T State University
Email: ejimakor@ncat.edu 
Countries of interest: Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone
Skills and/or Location Needed in a Partner: Survey sampling, Statistics

Awet Estifanos Gebre – Ethiopia 
Tigray Agricultural Research Institute
Email: awetestgebre@yahoo.com
Countries of interest: Any 
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner:  Livestock nutrition with particular emphasis on climate change and livestock production. Experiences in modeling is also important.

Ken Fening – Ghana
University of Ghana, African Regional Postgraduate Programme in Insect Science
Email: kfening@ug.edu.gh
Countries of interest: Ghana, Nigeria
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Legume/Cowpea Breeder, Crop Protectionist/ Legume/Cowpea IPM. Location US University.

Yahoussa Gambo – Niger
National Institute of Agronomic Research of Niger (INRAN)
Email: 3.gamb.houss12@gmail.com
Countries of interest: Niger, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Cameroun
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Agro Economist by training, economics of animal production, skills in rural development, value chains, food security; dairy production and development of technical-economic benchmarks in the field of livestock breeding and fodder production; diagnostic analysis and improvement of production systems, analysis of agri-food sectors and value chains, evaluation of income-generating activities and/or capacity building of value chain actors and organization and training of producers, extension and advice.

Anna Gichangi – Kenya 
Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Oganization (KALRO)
Email: wanjugu67@gmail.com
Countries of interest: Kenya and any other 
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner:  Skills associated with Agricultural Economics

Iorungwa Gwa – Nigeria
Federal University Dutsin-Ma, Katsina State Nigeria
Email: igwa@fudutsinma.edu.ng
Countries of interest: USA, Nigeria, Ghana, Zambia, Senegal, South Africa, Gambia
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Crop Protection, Post harvest pathogens of horticultural crop, Plant disease control, Biological control, Integrated Pest Management, Plant Pathology

Celestina Jochua – Mozambique 
Agriculture Research Institute of Mozambique – IIAM
Email: celestina_jochua@hotmail.com
Countries of interest: United States
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: common bean breeder, seed systems, agronomist

Dickson Kikyonkyo – Uganda 
Maize Feed Nations Africa Ltd
Email: maizefeednations.africa@gmail.com
Countries of interest: Uganda and other countries
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner:  Agricultural and agro-product processing technologies with reference to livestock, fish, legumes, feeds, food storage and food banking.

Iyale Liliane – Cameroon
Agricultural Researche Institute for development (IRAD)
Email: iyaleliliane@yahoo.fr
Countries of interest: Senegal and America
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Senegal to do genotyping and America for DNA Sequencing.

Narcizo Meza Linarez – Honduras
Dirección de Ciecia y Tecnologia Agropecuaria (DICTA)
Email: narcizo_meza@hotmail.com or narcizo.meza.linarez@gmail.com
Countries of interest: Honduras
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner:  Development and transfer of Agricultural Technologies, we are a decentralized public entity of the government. In Honduras, DICTA has 13 experimental fields and a staff of investigators in basic grains, horticulture, and agroindustrial crops.

Zahra Majili – Tanzania
Sokoine Univeristy of Agriculture. Department of Human Nutrition and Consumer Sciences
Email: majilizahra11@gmail.com or zahra_majili@sua.ac.tz
Countries of interest: Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, Kenya and the U.S.
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Sociologist/anthropologists, food product formulation – linear programming from U.S. universities. Market analyst for either U.S. Universities or National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) and CGIAR partners. Technologist/technician for CGIAR partners or any institution within the program that could be able to come up with innovative technologies to process legumes. Policy analyst from any institution. The skills mentioned are not necessarily from the mentioned institution but could be in any other institution within the call's scope. 

Ricardo Maria – Mozambique
Institute of Agricultural Research of Mozambique
Email: Ricardo_dejesus@hotmail.com
Countries of interest: Mozambique
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Soil science/Water management and GIS&remote sensing

Athanasia Matemu – Tanzania
Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST)
Email: athanasia.matemu@nm-aist.ac.tz
Countries of interest: USA, USA Minority University,  international agricultural research institutions with active legume programs
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Post-harvest management (Legumes), Food product development/Value addition to agro-products, Food Systems, Vale Chain analyst, Climate change. Show interest in lab research

Julius Missanga – Tanzania
University of Dodoma (UDOM)
Email: jmissanga@gmail.com
Countries of interest: USA 
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: USA universities/ research institutes - Agronomy, Crop sciences, Cropping/ Farming systems,  Molecular biology/ markers, Plant breeding and genetics, Crop physiology, Nutrition, Climate change, Agricultural economy and related skills

Juliet Mubaiwa – Zimbabwe
Chinhoyi University of Technology
Email: jmubaiwa@cut.ac.zw or jmubaiwa@gmail.com 
Countries of interest: Zimbabwe, Sub-Saharan Africa and rest of the world 
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner:  Food Scientist with interest in Hard-to-cook phenomenon in legumes, sustainable legume processing, food and nutrition security

Mustafa Mgula –  Tanzania
Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI)
Email: mailto:mustafamgula@gmail.com
Countries of interest: Tanzania
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Should be interested to work in cowpea regards.

Lameck Niyokwizigira – Burundi
Programme de recherche en gestion des terres et agroécologie de votre institution/organisation affiliée à l'ISABU
Email: lameck.niyokwizigira@isabu.bi
Countries of interest: Burundi
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Compétences et/ou emplacement requis chez un partenaire en Gestion des Ressources naturelles 

Titilayo Oladitan – Nigeria
Olusegun Agagu  University of Science and Technology
Email: oladitan@oaustec.edu.ng
Countries of interest: US Universities, Universities in South Africa and Kenya.
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Skill associated with GIS Remote sensory particular emphasis on climate change on crop production.soil nutrients management and food security . Experiences in modeling is also important.

Adesoji Olaniyan – Nigeria
Department of Agricultural and Bioresources Engineering, Federal University Oye Ekiti 
Email: adesoji.olaniyan@fuoye.edu.ng
Countries of interest: Ghana, Mali, Guatemala, Honduras, USA, and others
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner:  Entomologist, Postharvest Scientist, Postharvest Engineer, Agro-product Processing Engineer.

Johnson E. Onyibe – Nigeria
National Agricultural Extension and Research Liaison Services (NAERLS) Ahmadu Bello University, P.M.B. 1067, Zaria, Nigeria 
Email: jeonyibe@yahoo.com
Countries of interest: Ghana, Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso and Benin 
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Project/Research Management, commodity value chain development, Agricultural economics, Agric -finance, regional Trade, Ag-policies and investment, farming systems, technology scaling, agribusiness consortium incubation and seed industry development.

Victor Seje – Africa
Tropical Institute of Community Health (TICH in Africa) 
Email: vseje@yahoo.com
Countries of interest: DR Congo
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Skills from a US Partner Institution

Abou Togola – Mali
NGO Action Secours Sans Frontiere, Bamako, Mali
Email: aboutogola@yahoo.fr
Countries of interest: US and Mali
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Need collaborator to serve as PI for the Feed The Future proposal that the NGO Action Secours Sans Frontiere is developping in collaboration with the Faculty of Agriculture and Science Technology of University of Bamako and the Rural Polytechnique Institute of Katibougou. Our project titile is: "Improving livelihood of smallholders through improved legume market and seed system in Mali". The desired collaborator should have a background of cowpea breeder, agro economist or a socio economist.

Charles Tortoe – Ghana
CSIR Food Research Institute
Email:  ctortoe@yahoo.co.uk
Countries of interest: USA
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Capacity building in food systems among women and youth, consumer research, food product development, resilience and participation of value chain actors in food systems.

Hilda Vasanthakaalam – Rwanda
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Rwanda office 
Email: hvasanthakaalam@gainhealth.org
Countries of interest: Rwanda
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: Off farm legume-based to improve access to input and output markets, including off-farm, legume-based income generating activities for women, youth, and other often[1]marginalized groups, and to increase consumption of legume-based products as part of quality diets.

Bernice Wadei – Ghana
Bureau of Integrated Rural Development, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Email: bwadei@knust.edu.gh
Countries of interest: Ghana, Kenya
Skills and/or Location needed in a partner: US and Kenya Collaborators. Inclusive Inputs and Market Systems, Gender Equality and Inclusion, Youth Inclusion, Nutrition, Resilience.