Argentina Trainers
Agustina Cozzitorto
Languages:
Spanish (fluent), English (fluent)
Country:
Argentina
Focus Areas:
Australia Trainers
Sion Zivetz
Languages:
English (fluent)
Country:
Sri Lanka
Focus Areas:
Trudy Juriansz
Languages:
English (fluent)
Country:
Sri Lanka
Focus Areas:
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
Focus Areas:
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
Focus Areas:
Salvador Escarramán
Languages:
Spanish (fluent)
Country:
República Dominicana
Focus Areas:
Ecuador Trainers
Alejandro Solano
Languages:
Spanish (fluent), English (fluent)
Country:
Ecuador
Focus Areas:
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
Focus Areas:
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
Focus Areas:
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
Focus Areas:
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
Focus Areas:
Rachel Chanmugan
Languages:
French (fluent), English (fluent)
Country:
Sri Lanka
Focus Areas:
Kathinka Dumitruk
Languages:
English (fluent)
Country:
Sri Lanka
Focus Areas:
Nilanga Ranatunga
Languages:
Sinhala (fluent), English (fluent)
Country:
Sri Lanka
Focus Areas:
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
Focus Areas:
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.