Dougbedji Fatondji, Ph.D.
I. Personal Data
Name: Dougbedji Fatondji
Date and Place of Birth: 01.01.1959, Mondji, Savalou, Rep Benin
Gender and Marital Status: Male, Maried with 7 children
Nationality:
Actual: Citizen of Niger
Former: Benin
Contact Address: ICRISAT Sahelian Center BP 12404
Niamey, Niger (via Paris)
Telephone number: office: +227 72 25 29 / 72 26 26
Home: +227 75 54 75
Cel: +227 91 99 29
Fax number: +227 73 43 29
E-mail: ;
II. Education
Ph.D. in Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn
Field of expertise: Soil Science
Date Started: June 1998
Date Completed: June 2002
M.Sc & B.Sc. in High Institute of Agriculture (HIA) ‘Vassil Kolarov’, Plovdiv Bulgaria
Field of expertise: Plant breeding
Date Started: 1982
Date Completed: 1987
Baccalaureat: 1979
III. Employment History
From 05/02/1988 to Present:
Research Associate in the Groundnut 1988 - 1992
Improvement Programme (Agronomy)
ICRISAT Sahelian Centre
Research Associate in the Legume 1992 to 1997
Physiology section (Agronomy Division)
ICRISAT Sahelian Centre
Scientific Officer in the Natural 1997 to 1998
Resource Management Program
(NRMP)
PhD study 1998 to June 2002
Scientific Officer-Soil and water conservation June 2002 to date
IV. Current activities:
a. Study the potential loss of nutrients due to water erosion following termites’ activities on organic amendment applied on soil surface
b. Data collection to calibration of the crop growth DSSAT for sahelian crops and cropping systems
c. Long-term experiment to study the process of rehabilitation of degraded land using different types of mulch and study the effect of termites activities on the process
d. Long-term experiment on combined use of live hedges of Acacia colei, earth bunds or ‘demi_Lunes’, high value trees such as the domesticated Ziziphus Mauritania (planted inside the ‘demi-Lunes’) and annual crops (in rotation each year) to address the problems of soil fertility, soil erosion and rural livelihood in the harsh agricultural production conditions of semi-arid West Africa – this experiment is being conducted at ICRISAT Sadore.
e. In scaling up this technology the experiment is being repeated in Burkina Faso and northern Ghana in the frame work of the challenge program on water and food project (CP5) in the Volta basin coordinated by ICRISAT
f. Participatory validation trial on the strategic fertilizer placement technology (micro-dose) as part of a decision support system project at ICRISAT – Niamey
g. Coordination (acting) of the project ‘Improved livelihoods in the Sahel through the development and implementation of household level bio-economic decision support systems’ Funded by the Directorate-General for Development Cooperation, DGCD Belgium
V. Workshops, Symposiums and trainings
a. International Workshop on Integrated Water Resources Management Tools; Application to the Niger Basin (Bamako – 28 – 30 March 2006)
b. Advanced DSSAT4 Training Workshop - Assessing Crop Production, Nutrient Management, Climatic Risks and Environmental sustainability with simulations models – Accra Ghana Oct, 21 – 29, 2005
c. Workshop on Restoration of African farm - and rangeland through integrative soil, water, nutrients and biota measures. A comparison of approaches and experiences of different regions in sub-Saharan Africa. (Accra Ghana 23 - 25 August 2004)
d. APSIM Training workshop on Crop growth simulation modeling – ICRISAT Matopos Bulawayo – Zimbabwe – 12 – 26 July 2004
e. Fifth Workshop of the Optimizing Soil Water Use (OSWU) Consortium in Pretoria (27 - 29 July 2004)
f. AfNet Symposium on Improving Human Welfare and Environmental Conservation by Empowering Farmers to Combat Soil Fertility Degradation (17 - 21 May 2004)
g. International Symposium for Sustainable Dryland Agriculture Systems, 2 – 5 December 2003 – Niamey, Niger
h. APSIM Training workshop on Crop growth simulation modeling, 22 – 24 march 2003 – ACMAD, Niamey, Niger
i. OSWU Steering committee meeting in Ankara, Turkey (22 – 26 April 2002)
VI. Computer literacy
SOFTWARE COMPETENCE
Statistics
Genstat, Mstat Excellent
Graphics
Grapher, Excel, SigmaPlot very Good
Modeling
Apsim Good
DSSAT Good
Data collection and processing
Excel, Foxpro, Quattro Pro Excellent
Word processing
Microsoft Word, WordPerfect Excellent
VII. Spoken Languages
French: Fluent
English: Fluent
Fon: Native
Mina Fluent
Yoruba Faire
VIII. Selected Publications
1. Fatondji D. Martius C., Bielders C.L., Vlek P.L.G., Bationo A., Gerard B. Effect of planting technique and amendment type on pearl millet yield, nutrient uptake, and water use on degraded land in Niger. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems journal (Accepted for publication in January 2006)
2. Mando A., Fatondji D., Zougmore R., Brussard L., Bielders C.L., and Martius C. Restoring Soil Fertility in Semi-Arid West Africa; CH 27 In BIOLOGICAL APPROACHES FOR SUSTAINABLE SOIL SYSTEMS. In Soils, Plants and the Environment series. Edts. Norman Uphoff, Andrew S. Ball, Erick Fernandes, Hans Herren, Olivier Husson, Mark Laing, Cheryl Palm, Jules Pretty, Pedro A. Sanchez, Nteranya Sanguinga, Janice E. Thies
3. Pasternak D., Nikiema A., Fatondji D., Ndjeunga J., Koala S., Dan Goma A. and Abasse T. 2005. The Sahelian Eco-Farm. In Les leçons tirées des expériences de lutte contre la désertification au Sahel Actes des travaux de l’atelier sous régional d’échange et de réflexion organisé par le Centre de Recherche pour le Développement International (CRDI) 12 – 16 Juillet, Saley Portudal, Sénégal. Edts. Innocent Butare, Jean Sibiri Zoundi, Alassane Diallo
4. Boubacar BARRY, Robert Zougmore, Fatondji Dougbedji. Best practices in rainwater harvesting for agriculture in West Africa (Proceeding of the workshop on Restoration of African farm- and rangeland through integrative soil, water, nutrients and biota measures; A comparison of approaches and experiences of different regions in sub-Saharan Africa. (Accra Ghana 23 - 25 August 2004)) (In press)
5. Fatondji D., and Dimes. Soil and water conservation to mitigate land degradation. Towards understanding basic processes in the zai technology; 5th OSWU Workshop in Pretoria (27 - 29 July 2004) (In press)
6. Fatondji, Dougbedji 2002. Organic amendment decomposition, nutrient release and nutrient uptake by millet (Pennisetum glaucum L. R. Br) in a traditional land rehabilitation technique (zai) in the Sahel, 2002. PhD dissertation. Ecology and development Series No. 1 2002. Eds: Paul L. Vlek, Manfred Denich, Christopher Martius, Nick van de Giesen
7. Fatondji, Dougbedji, Christopher Martius and Paul Vlek. ‘Zai’ – A traditional technique for land rehabilitation in Niger, 2001. ZEF News No 8 September 2001
8. Fatondji, Dougbedji, Christopher Martius and Paul Vlek. Organic amendment decomposition, nutrient release and nutrient uptake by millet (Pennisetum glaucum L. R. Br) in a traditional land rehabilitation technique (zai) in the Sahel, 2001. Poster presented at the German Tropentag, Edition of October 2001
9. B.R. Ntare, J.H. Williams and F. Dougbedji 2001. Evaluation of groundnut genotypes for heat tolerance under field conditions in the Sahelian environment using a simple physiological model for yield, Journal of Agricultural science Cambridge (2001), 136, 81-88
10. J.H. Williams, R.C. Nageswara Rao, F. Dougbedji, and H. S. Talwar. Radiation interception and modelling as an alternative to destructive samples in crop growth measurements, 1996. Ann. Applied Biology (1996), 129: 151-160
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