Leaders

Ciniro Costa Jr

Scientist

CGIAR Hub for Sustainable Finance, Multifunctional Landscapes and Tropical Forages

Ciniro leads and contributes to several Alliance and CGIAR initiatives and projects, especially under the Multifunctional Landscapes, Tropical Forages, and the CGIAR Hub for Sustainable Finance (Lead for Impact).

Juan Andres Cardoso

Plant ecologist and physiologist

Tropical Forages

Develop and evaluate through high-throughput phenotyping and field studies, deep rooted tropical forage grasses; and define the soil-root-microbe interactions contributing to improved SOC storage in tropical soils.

Ricardo Gonzalez-Quintero

Postdoctoral Researcher, Environmental Modeling of Livestock Systems

Tropical Forages

Develop strategies to disseminate new root ideotypes of forage grass and rice for use in tropical acid soil regions of tropical Africa and Latin America and estimate benefits of effective C removals from the atmosphere.

María Camila Rebolledo

Researcher

Crops

Understand the carbon capture-related traits in the rice crop and develop Rice breeding lines with a high capacity for carbon capture.

Sylvia Nyawira

Researcher

Multifunctional Landscape Lever and Tropical Forages

Develop strategies to disseminate new root ideotypes of forage grass and rice for use in tropical acid soil regions of tropical Africa and Latin America and estimate benefits of effective C removals from the atmosphere.