Dr. Dyno Keatinge
Director General of
The World Vegetable Center
Gave Seminar:
July 28, 2008
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
2318 Fifield Hall
“The Importance of Improving Small-Holder Vegetable Production in the Developing World”
About The World Vegetable Center
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Full Bio
Dr. John Donough Heber “Dyno” Keatinge, Director General of AVRDC—The World Vegetable Center—in Taiwan, is visiting UF/IFAS July 28th and 29th, 2008. In addition to meeting with faculty and administration, he will give a seminar in Room 2318 Fifield Hall, titled “The Importance of Improving Small-Holder Vegetable Production in the Developing World.”
Professor Keatinge’s career has spanned the globe. In addition to his current position as Director General of The World Vegetable Center, since April 1999, Keatinge has held a simultaneous, joint position as Visiting Professor of Tropical Agriculture, The University of Reading, United Kingdom while also working at institutions around the world. These dual-appointment institutions and positions include:
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Deputy Director General – Research for the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, or ICRISAT, in Patancheru, India, from October 2002 to April 2008;
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Assistant to the Director General for Resource Mobilisation at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Ibadan, Nigeria, from June to October 2002; and
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Director, Resource and Crop Management Division, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria between April 1999 and May 2002.
Prior to this, Keatinge was Professor of Agricultural & Rural Systems and Management, Department of Agriculture, The University of Reading, United Kingdom, from September 1993 to March 1999. Keatinge was employed at ICARDA (International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas) as Regional Research Coordinator for the Highlands of West Asia and North Africa, based at the Central Research Institute for Field Crops at Ankara, Turkey. He held that position from 1990 to August of 1993.
Between 1985 and July 1990, Keatinge was Leader of the ICARDA Highlands Research Project Phases 1 & 2, Arid Zone Research Institute, located in Quetta, Pakistan. Keatinge was Agronomist in the Farming Systems Program, ICARDA, Aleppo, Syria between 1980 and 1985 and he was Environmental crop physiologist with the University of the West Indies, Trinidad, from 1978 to 1980.
Born in Ireland, Professor Keatinge holds a Ph.D in Agronomy/Crop Physiology from Queen's University, Belfast, United Kingdom; a M.Sc. in Agronomy/Agroclimatology from the University of Manitoba, Canada; and a B.Sc. in Physical Geography from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom.
Dr. Keatinge may be reached at:
AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center
PO Box 42
Shanhua, Tainan 74151, Taiwan
FAX: 886 6 5830009
TEL: 886 6 5837801 Ext 100
EMAIL: Dyno.Keatinge@Worldveg.org
About The World Vegetable Center
The World Vegetable Center is the only not-for-profit international agricultural research center that has the worldwide and exclusive mandate for vegetable research and development. It works to alleviate poverty and malnutrition in the developing world through the improved production and consumption of safe vegetables. Founded in 1971 as the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center, The World Vegetable Center’s work has expanded globally.
Headquartered in Taiwan, the Center has established regional centers in Thailand, India and Tanzania and offices or staff located in 11 other developing countries in Africa and Asia. With over 50 international scientists and 350 national scientists and support staff, the Center’s research and development work includes collecting vegetable germplasm, developing improved breeding lines, improving production systems, marketing and post harvest handling and enhancing the nutritional value of vegetables. The Center maintains the largest not-for-profit collection of vegetable germplasm in the world.
Comprising over 56,000 accessions, it includes major collections of globally-important crops such as tomato, pepper, onion, cabbage and eggplant as well as over 10,000 accessions of indigenous vegetables. The Center has distributed vegetable seeds to researchers in 180 countries. Together with lines bred by the Center’s own staff these efforts have led to the release of hundreds of new vegetable varieties that are planted on millions of hectares in the developing world today.
A strong and thriving vegetable sector leads to more income opportunities and healthier diets for the poor. Vegetables are high-value crops and find ready markets both locally and for export and can generate up to four times more jobs per hectare, on-farm and off-farm, than any staple crop-based agricultural enterprises. Vegetable production helps alleviate poverty by creating sources of income for farmers and jobs for landless laborers in developing countries.
Vegetables also have a crucial function in the continuing battle against malnutrition, which is particularly prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Vegetables are humanity’s most important source of micronutrients; they are critical to a balanced diet. The Center’s activities include laboratory studies, field trials around the world, participatory research and development work with national agricultural research and extension systems, other international agricultural research centers, advanced research institutes, the private sector, farmers and other partners to develop appropriate and sustainable technologies.
The Center also offers extensive training and capacity building programs with the public and private sectors to ensure awareness and adoption of improved vegetable technologies.
To view other Global Seminars...
Martin Schwarz, Director of Grants and Contracts, Zamorano University, Honduras, “Opportunities fo Strengthening Linkages
with Zamorano University” on September 23, 2008: to view a recording of the seminar:
http://icsde.ifas.ufl.edu/Accordent/Presentations/Schwarz_9-23/
Willie Dar, Director General of the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), "From Gloom to Bloom: High-Value Crops in the Semi-Arid Tropics" on July 19, 2007: view a recording of the seminar.
