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PAY DRECHSEL
Theme Leader - Water Quality, Health and Environment
IWMI Headquarters
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Pay Drechsel has nearly 20 years of working experience as environmental scientist in projects aiming at integrated natural resources management and sustainable agricultural production in developing countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. He has served as R&D consultant, mostly for GTZ, in soil science and plant nutrition, land suitability evaluation, agro-forestry, environmental pollution and soil degradation in Benin, Burkina Faso, Russia, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, and Togo. In charge of IBSRAM's Africaland network, Pay coordinated from 1996 till 2000 research projects in Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana and Cameroon. After being based at IBSRAM HQ in Thailand, he set up and headed IBSRAM's Africa Office in Kumasi, Ghana from 1997 till 2001. In this period, Pay joined the scientific steering committee of the system-wide Soil, Water and Nutrient Management (SWNM) program. His research work focussed in this period on participatory on-farm research and resource economics. With the incorporation of IBSRAM's research programs and projects into the International Water Management Institute (IWMI-CGIAR) in 2001, Pay took over IWMI's subregional office for West Africa in Accra. Between 1997 and 2005, the office grew under his leadership from one to about thirty staff members. In 2005, Pay handed the office over to lead IWMI's new research division on the safe and productive use of low-quality water. He is still based in Ghana.
Since 1999, Pay is coordinating several projects on urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) and related environmental impacts with special focus on comprehensive and multidisciplinary UPA assessments, waste composting and safe wastewater use. He is in the steering committee of the System-wide Initiative on Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture (Urban Harvest) and Board member of the RUAF Foundation.
Pay has more than 150 publications with one third of them in peer-reviewed books and international journals reflecting his expertise and various interests: Environmental Pollution, Ecological Economics, Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, Plant & Soil, Agroforestry Systems, Economic Botany, Waste Management, Forest Ecology and Management, Environment & Urbanization, Journal of Water and Health, Pest Management Science, Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, Archives Environmental Contamination & Toxicology, Irrigation and Drainage, Acta Tropica, International Journal of Environmental Studies, and Water, Air & Soil Pollution, etc.
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This page was last updated on
Thursday, February 12, 2009
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