Biography
Dave is an Honorary Fellow at ICRISAT and an Honorary Lecturer at Bangor University, UK. Previously he was Senior Advisor to the Research Methods Group at the World Agroforestry Centre (2014-2017). He was co-manager of the DFID Plant Sciences Research Programme at Bangor between 1995 and 2011 and then Principal Scientist (Agro-ecosystems/Climate Change) with ICRISAT based in Nairobi, Kenya (2011-2013). He has 35 years; experience of agricultural research in less-developed countries, particularly in the fields of crop physiology, agronomy and participatory on-farm collaboration, including long-term assignments in India (1982-1984), Botswana (1987-1992) and St. Lucia (1992-1995) and many shorter assignments throughout South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. His current research focuses on understanding why rural households adopt/don’t adopt/dis-adopt improved agricultural technologies and on the consequences of farm size for rural livelihoods.
