Internationale Agrarentwicklung

International Agricultural Development

 Wolfgang Peter Schröder

 

Dr.  sc. agr.

Diplom  Agaringenieur

 

Berater                                            Consultant







 
Summary of professional skills: Manager for multi-sectoral / multi-disciplinary natural resources programmes, institutional development of agricultural ministries, agricultural extension, training in agriculture and natural resources, agricultural research management, rural development, farming systems, seed production and commercial management, agro-forestry, economic analysis for sustained agriculture, food security

 
Education: Universities Bonn and Kiel, Germany

Faculties of Agriculture and Economy

Specialisation: Plant production, M.Sc. (1972))
  Technical University Berlin, Germany

Faculty of International Agricultural Development

Institute of Crop Science

PhD. (1982): Thesis on drought resistance of faba beans
   
Country experience

(month): Laos (2), Nigeria (3), Cambodia (1), Ghana (34), Algeria (2), Sierra Leone (80), Tonga Islands (4), Saudi Arabia (20) Indonesia (36),  others: Namibia, Nepal, Yemen, Egypt, Tunisia, Tanzania, Madagascar, Benin;    23 years abroad
   
Languages German (mother tongue), English (fluent),  French, Indonesian (fair) Arabic, Spanish (basic)
Membership of Professional Bodies: German Society of Agronomy,

Tropical Agricultural Association – UK,

Society for International Development, Rome

 

 

Special Concern:

 




Environment and macro - economics.

 

The environmental degradation from forests over secondary vegetation to barren and unfertile = unproductive land though slash and burn shifting agriculture still goes on at an ever increasing pace. Re-afforestation and commercial plantation can be a sustainable replacement for the forest – but private investors or voluminous state programs are needed to finance the investment period.

From the macro-economic point if view – it would be less costly to change the farmers’ way of cropping directly to an environmentally tolerable one (sedentary agriculture) and would reduce the pressure on the forest considerably – as compared to the situation now.

 




fuel wood                from             hedge – row farming with plantain