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Zeyaur R. Khan
[edit]Prof. Zeyaur R. Khan is a Principal Scientist at icipe. He has dedicated his 30 year career as an international agricultural scientist to advancing the science and practice of agriculture by studying and applying chemical ecology, behavior, plant-plant and insect-plant interactions to improve farm productivity to combat poverty and food insecurity in Africa. He is responsible for the discovery and wide scale implementation of a pro-poor scientific innovation for enhancing food security and environmental sustainability in Africa. This was achieved through the biologically-based IPM technology called ‘Push-Pull’ (www.push-pull.net), developed for small-holder cereal-livestock African farmers. Prof. Khan’s work is a wonderful example demonstrating that creativity and innovation in science can provide practical solutions for the real problems of thousands of small-holder poor farmers and promote their food security and sustainable livelihoods.
Career
[edit]Prof. Khan obtained his Ph.D. from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi in 1980. Before joining icipe, he worked with International Rice Research Institute (1983-1991), University of Wisconsin, Madison (1985-1986) and Kansas State University, Manhattan (1991-1993). Prof. Khan also holds a position of Visiting Professor at Cornell University.
Professional Qualification
[edit]Prof. Khan is Fellow of Entomological Society of America and Fellow of Royal Entomological Society, London. In 2009 Prof. Khan was awarded the International IPM excellence award, a plenary speaker at during XXIII International Congress of Entomology in 2008 and the 2010 winner of the Nan-Yao Su Award for Innovation and Creativity in Entomology. He has authored/co-authored over 100 scientific papers in referred journals, over 10 book chapters, five books and several booklets and brochures.
Awards
[edit]A co-winner of the TWAS Prize in Agricultural Sciences for 2011 during the Academy's 22nd General Meeting in Trieste, Italy