Idrissa Diédhiou

Senegal

Ecological Fundamentals for Natural Resources Management

Idrissa is an Agricultural Engineer from the University of Granma (Cuba), where he was awarded recognition as best graduate by the president of the University and in 2014 received recognition as the best student of Agronomy by the Cuban Association of Agricultural and Forestry Technicians. He worked as Project Coordinator with the Tool Baye Group of Senegal and USAID to improve production techniques and use of certified grain and cereal seeds for farmers in the central regions of Senegal (Kaolack, Kaffrine and Fatick). He completed his Master’s degree in Agricultural Production at the Faculty of Agronomy and Veterinary of the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosi (UASLP-Mexico) and served as Professor from 2017 to 2022 at the Universidad Potosina in the career of Production Engineering in Protected Crops. He obtained his PhD in Environmental Sciences/Renewable Natural Resources, by the UASLP by the Multidisciplinary Graduate Program in Environmental Sciences in February 2022. In his doctoral thesis, he worked with the effects related to climate change (high temperatures, water deficit/abiotic stress) on the corn crop and its milpa (polyculture) production system (corn, beans, and squash) of small farmers in the three agroclimatic regions of San Luis Potosí.

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