Argentina Trainers

Agustina Cozzitorto

Languages: Spanish (fluent), English (fluent)
Country: Argentina
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Australia Trainers

Sion Zivetz

Languages: English (fluent)
Country: Sri Lanka
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Trudy Juriansz

Languages: English (fluent)
Country: Sri Lanka
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Bolivia Trainers

Miguel Angel Crespo

Languages: Spanish (fluent), English (basic)
Country: Bolivia
Focus Areas: Biological pest control in tropical ecosystems and nurseries.

Cameroon Trainers

Eric Suika Fonba

Languages: English (fluent)
Country: Cameroon
Focus Areas: Plant domestication, seed collection, nursery management, watershed management, community mobilization.

Youndjie Koleoko Gabriel

Languages: English (fluent), French (fluent)
Country: Cameroon
Focus Areas: Non-timber forest products, Beekeeping, Nursery management, Composting, Protection of water catchments, Processing of forest products

Perry Ndzefemmegho

Languages: English (fluent)
Country: Cameroon
Focus Areas: AF design, Watershed management, Tropical ecosystems (forests), Climate Change, NTFPs & value chain development

Wirsiy Eric Fondzenyuy

Languages: English (fluent), French (basic), Lamnso (fluent)
Country: Cameroon
Focus Areas: Seed collection, storage and distribution; plant domestication; water management; sustainable agriculture

Michael Lyonga Ngoh

Languages: English (fluent), French (basic), Pidgin English (fluent)
Country: Cameroon
Focus Areas: Biodiversity High Conservation Value (HCV) Assessment; Ecosystem Restoration; Field Botanist (Taxonomist); Analogue Forestry Design; Statistical Data Analysis

Roland Ndah Njoh

Languages: English (fluent), French (intermediate)
Country: Cameroon
Focus Areas: Tropical ecosystems, soil properties, plant population dynamics, uses of plants (NTFPs)

Canada Trainers

Jean Arnold

Languages: English (fluent), Spanish (basic)
Country: Canada
Focus Areas: Organic agriculture, biodiversity restoration, community development

Colombia Trainers

Victor Mena

Languages: Spanish (fluent)
Country: Colombia
Focus Areas: Agroforestry and ecosystem services

Carolina Sorzano Lopez

Languages: Spanish (fluent), English (intermediate)
Country: Colombia
Focus Areas: Advisor to the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) in the Program for Reducing Emissions from Avoided Deforestation – REDD + in Colombia

Carlos Felipe Arango

Languages: Spanish (fluent)
Country: Colombia
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Costa Rica Trainers

Emel Rodríguez Paniagua

Languages: Spanish (fluent), English (basic)
Country: Costa Rica
Focus Areas: Emel has participated in various professional training courses on biological corridors, agroforestry, national parks, tree nurseries, forest seeds, forest industry

Julio Rojas Elizondo

Languages: Spanish (fluent)
Country: Costa Rica
Focus Areas: Agroforestry research, politics and economics. Community development, environmental education, ecological connectivity and landscape fragmentation.

Adriana Pal

Languages: Spanish (fluent), English (fluent)
Country: Costa Rica
Focus Areas: Design of edible, medicinal and useful gardens. Composting Agroecology Medicinal plants Community Management

Carla Fabiola Padilla Salas

Languages: Spanish (fluent)
Country: Costa Rica
Focus Areas: Urban trees, landscape restoration, interurban biological corridors, design of interventions and gardens with native plants

María Auxiliadora Zúñiga Amador

Languages: Spanish (fluent), English (fluent)
Country: Costa Rica
Focus Areas: Design of edible, medicinal and useful gardens. Composting Agroecology Medicinal plants Community Management

Natalia Picado Palma

Languages: Spanish (fluent) English (intermediate)
Country: Costa Rica
Focus Areas: Agroforestry systems, community forestry, design of productive units, ethnobotany, environmental education, sustainable forest management, urban arboriculture.

Amanda Calvo Santana

Languages: Spanish (fluent), English (fluent)
Country: Costa Rica
Focus Areas: Botany, naturalist guide, permaculture, medicinal plants, agroecology and food production, education and research.

Milo Bekins Faires

Languages: Spanish (fluent), English (expert)
Country: Costa Rica
Focus Areas: Essential oil production, AF spice production, composting, nursery management.

Oscar Fonseca

Languages: Spanish (fluent)
Country: Costa Rica
Focus Areas: Biological corridors, demonstration sites, design, ecological evaluation

Geovanny Quirós

Languages: Spanish (fluent), English (fluent)
Country: Costa Rica
Focus Areas: He practices organic agriculture for subsistence on his family farm and is currently involved in organizational processes with small and medium farmers in Costa Rica.

Guido Barrientos Matamoros

Languages: Spanish (fluent)
Country: Costa Rica
Focus Areas: Compost and regeneration of soil fertility, urban gardens, on-site water management, biological wastewater treatment, rainwater harvesting, construction using plastic bottles, local development and sustainability

José Pablo Fernández Quirós

Languages: Spanish (fluent), English (fluent), French (basic)
Country: Costa Rica
Focus Areas: Payments for environmental services, GIS, development of maps and designs, land use and soil conservation, workshops in rural areas, meaDesign of sustainable urban and rural projects, design and implementation of edible gardens

Leonardo Rodríguez Quirós

Languages: Spanish (fluent)
Country: Costa Rica
Focus Areas: Management of natural resources. ecological monitoring. Agroforestry systems. Geographic information systems. Data management. forest ecology.

Cuba Trainers

Orlidia Hechavarria Kindelán

Languages: Spanish (fluent) English (intermediate) French (intermediate)
Country: Cuba
Focus Areas: Species selection, AF design, nursery management, urban and suburban agriculture

Wilmer Toriac Arguelle

Languages: Spanish (fluent)
Country: Cuba
Focus Areas: Nursery management, seed collection and processing, soil management, family gardens and subsistence farming, compost, vermicompost, agroforestry ecosystems

Dominican Republic Trainers

Mamerto Valerio

Languages: Spanish (fluent)
Country: República Dominicana
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Salvador Escarramán

Languages: Spanish (fluent)
Country: República Dominicana
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Ecuador Trainers

Alejandro Solano

Languages: Spanish (fluent), English (fluent)
Country: Ecuador
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Oliver Torres

Languages: Spanish (fluent)
Country: Ecuador
Focus Areas: Oliver studied Philosophy and Political Science in the United States and France. He also did a Master’s Degree in Socio-Environmental Studies at FLACSO-ECUADOR.

Nina Duarte Silveira

Languages: Portuguese (fluent), Spanish (fluent), English (intermediate)
Country: Ecuador
Focus Areas: Ecological restoration, organic production, agroforestry design, management of soils and organic matter.

Angel Suco

Languages: Spanish (fluent)
Country: Ecuador
Focus Areas: Community work on ecosystem restoration, in different stages of degradation, management of nurseries, plantations, design of plots with AF Organic Agriculture, recovery of beneficial microorganisms from the soil. Protection of water sources

Galo Chiriboga

Languages: Spanish (fluent), English (fluent)
Country: Ecuador
Focus Areas: Media and communication campaigns, environmental education, strategic alliances

Diego Alejandro Tapia Gonzalez

Languages: Spanish (fluent)
Country: Ecuador
Focus Areas: Environment-friendly agriculture, entrepreneurship, innovation, production and commercialization of promising plants, production models in Analog Forestry,essential oils

Nicanor Mejía

Languages: Spanish (fluent)
Country: Ecuador
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Nestor Pino

Languages: Spanish (fluent), English (intermediate)
Country: Ecuador
Focus Areas: Beekeeping, PANCS, robotics applied to agriculture, nursery management, holistic cooking, water management, sustainable agriculture, composting, analog forestry design, clean energy, medicinal plants, genetic improvement in plants and animals.

India Trainers

Sharada Ramadass

Languages: English (fluent); Indian languages: Hindi, Tamizh, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali (fluent)
Country: India
Focus Areas: Ecology and Climate Change – research and outreach, Natural farming processes

Mexico Trainers

Rocío Romero Lima

Languages: Spanish (fluent), English (basic)
Country: Mexico
Focus Areas: Biointensive vegetable production, compost production and evaluation, soil analysis and compost, design and analsis of diversified organic gardens in agroforestry systems, environmental education, family nutrition.

Zuú Salinas

Languages: Spanish (fluent)
Country: Mexico
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Nicaragua Trainers

María Ofelia Ortega Sandoval

Languages: Spanish (fluent)
Country: Nicaragua
Focus Areas: Interest in ecological restoration, María Ofelia wants to contribute to the recovery, conservation and replacement of the ecosystem of her plot and her community that for years has been degraded, damaged or destroyed, (intervened) by people.

Jael Bildad Cruz Castillo

Languages: Spanish (fluent)
Country: Nicaragua
Focus Areas: Agroecology, climate change mitigation and adaptation, beekeeping

Peru Trainers

Tatiana Espinosa Q.

Languages: Spanish (fluent), English (intermediate)
Country: Peru
Focus Areas: Management and conservation of tropical forests, biodiversity restoration, climate change adaptation, urban arboriculture, wild fauna monitoring, forest censuses.

Rodrigo Carbajal

Languages: Spanish (fluent)
Country: Peru
Focus Areas: Conservation and restoration of ecosystems.

Luis Miguel Llerena Bermudez

Languages: Spanish (fluent), English (intermediate)
Country: Peru
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Puerto Rico Trainers

Jeffrey Glogiewicz

Languages: Spanish (fluent), English (fluent), Portuguese (basic)
Country: Puerto Rico
Focus Areas: Forest management in tropical ecosystems, forest management for the protection of watersheds, ethno-forestry.

Sri Lanka Trainers

Nuwan Bandara Ekanayaken

Languages: Sinhala (fluent), English (fluent)
Country: Sri Lanka
Focus Areas: Facilitation and Training, Eco innovations, Sustainable agribusiness solutions, Sustainable agricultural projects/ Women livelihood development projects, Waste Management, Youth Education, Earth Restoration, Art and Music, Spiritual Discussions.

Ajantha Palihawadana

Languages: Sinhala (fluent), English (basic)
Country: Sri Lanka
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Rachel Chanmugan

Languages: French (fluent), English (fluent)
Country: Sri Lanka
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Kathinka Dumitruk

Languages: English (fluent)
Country: Sri Lanka
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Nilanga Ranatunga

Languages: Sinhala (fluent), English (fluent)
Country: Sri Lanka
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Madhu Rathnayake

Languages: Sinhala (fluent), English (fluent)
Country: Sri Lanka
Focus Areas: Facilitation and Training, Eco innovations, Sustainable agribusiness solutions, Sustainable agricultural projects/ Women livelihood development projects, Waste Management, Youth Education, Earth Restoration, Art and Music, Spiritual Discussions.

Nuwan Bandara Ekanayaken

Languages: Sinhala (fluent), English (fluent)
Country: Sri Lanka
Focus Areas: Facilitation and Training, Eco innovations, Sustainable agribusiness solutions, Sustainable agricultural projects/ Women livelihood development projects, Waste Management, Youth Education, Earth Restoration, Art and Music, Spiritual Discussions.

Ranil Senanayake

Languages: Sinhala (fluent), Spanish (intermediate), English (basic)
Country: Sri Lanka
Focus Areas: Systems ecology, AF design, species identification, AF tea cultivation, AF and climate change.

Lorena Gamboa

Languages: Spanish (fluent), English (basic), French (expert), Portuguese (basic)
Country: Sri Lanka / Ecuador
Focus Areas: Tropical Ecosystems, management of AF Methodologies, training and community involvement, FGP certification

Fazly Mohamed

Languages: Sinhala (fluent), English (fluent), Tamil (fluent)
Country: Sri Lanka
Focus Areas: Organic farming, organic pest control methods, mangrove restoration, mapping and designing, AF based agriculture land development, seed saving, community mobilization, agriculture marketing, AF tea cultivation.

H.P. Thamindu Sandaruwant

Languages: Sinhala (fluent), English (fluent)
Country: Sri Lanka
Focus Areas: Organic farming, species identification, biodiversity conservation and habitat recreation, watershed management, landscape designing, Analog forestry, consumer awareness, waste management.

Dharmasekara Rathnayaked

Languages: Sinhala (fluent), Tamil (intermediate), English (basic)
Country: Sri Lanka
Focus Areas: Organic farming, watershed designing, plant data base development, farmer land designing, AF product marketing.

Sugath Ekanayaka

Languages: Sinhala (fluent), English (intermediate)
Country: Sri Lanka
Focus Areas: AF Design, Nursery management, Organic agriculture, Biodiversity restoration, community extension, Mapping, Composting, Landscaping, FGP Tea garden design, Marketing organic products.

Piyal Wijerathna

Languages: Sinahala (fluent), English (fluent)
Country: Sri Lanka
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Spain Trainers

Julio Cantos

Languages: Spanish (fluent)
Country: Spain
Focus Areas: Edible and conservation landscaping, phytogeography.

Jaume Tugores Bonnin

Languages: Catalán (fluent) Spanish (fluent) English (intermediate) German (intermediate) French (basic)
Country: Spain
Focus Areas: Apiculture, vermicompost, green cover, vertical gardens, native flora, permaculture, dryland gardening, garden design and installation

Debla Rodríguez Almenara

Languages: Spanish (fluent), English (fluent), Catalan (intermediate), Italian (intermediate)
Country: Spain
Focus Areas: Ecological production, environmental education, ecological restoration, social participation.

Togo Trainers

Jules Adjima

Languages: Spanish (fluent), English (fluent), Portuguese (basic)
Country: Togo
Focus Areas: Participatory forest management, mountain ecosystems, nursery management, water management, environmental education

USA Trainers

Grover Stock

Languages: English (fluent)
Country: USA
Focus Areas: Permaculture, biodynamic farming, soil management, composting.