Our core team has combined experience of more than 40 years of implementing both research and consultancy activities in the following disciplines:

• Applicaton of particpatory rapid appraisal and other diagnostic techniques to the characterisation of farming systems;
• Design, implementation and interpretation of static and dynamic surveys;
• Analysis of the contributions of the agronomy and physiology of field and plantation crops to sustainable development;
• Characterisation and analysis of livestock production systems and their interactions with other components of rural and urban livelihoods;
• Implications of feeding strategies for ruminant and non-ruminant livestock for income generation and crop-livestock integration;
• Development of simulation models to support the analysis of farming systems;
• Design, development and testing of computerised and paper-based decision support tools for farmers, extension services and policy makers;
• Web design and internet programming.

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