Induced Innovation and Productivity-Enhancing, Resource-Conserving Technologies in Central America - The Supply of Soil Conservation Practices and Small-Scale Farmers’ Adoption in Guatemala and El Salvador

Biographie de Monika Zurek

The Author : Monika B. Zurek was born in Bonn in 1967. She studied agricultural biology at the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, from 1990 to 1997. From 1992 to 1993 she was an exchange student in the Environmental Biology program at the University of Guelph, Ontario (Canada). She also participated in a number of university courses in Indonesia, West- Africa and Brazil. In 1997 she became a Pre-doctoral Fellow in the Regional Office for Central America and the Caribbean of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre CIMMYT in San José (Costa Rica).
There she worked until the middle of 2000 in a research project funded by the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation. She returned to the University of Gießen to finalize her Ph.D. thesis in Agricultural Economics. In 2001 she started a new position as one of the Technical Support Staff of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, first based at CIMMYT headquarters in Texcoco (Mexico) and since 2003 at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) in Rome.