Dougbedji Fatondji, Ph.D.
I.
Personal Data
Name: Dougbedji Fatondji
Date and Place of Birth: 01.01.1959, Mondji, Savalou, Rep Benin
Gender and Marital Status: Male, Maried with 7 children
Nationality:
Actual: Citizen of Niger
Former: Benin
Contact Address: ICRISAT Sahelian Center BP 12404
Niamey, Niger (via Paris)
Telephone number: office: +227 72 25 29 / 72 26 26
Home: +227 75 54 75
Cel: +227 91 99 29
Fax number: +227 73 43 29
E-mail: d.Fatondji@cgiar.org; d_Fatondji@yahoo.com
II.
Education
Ph.D. in Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn
Field of expertise: Soil Science
Date Started: June 1998
Date Completed: June 2002
M.Sc & B.Sc. in High Institute of Agriculture (HIA) ‘Vassil Kolarov’, Plovdiv
Bulgaria
Field of expertise: Plant breeding
Date Started: 1982
Date Completed: 1987
Baccalaureat: 1979
III.
Employment History
From 05/02/1988 to Present:
Research Associate in the Groundnut
Improvement Programme (Agronomy)
ICRISAT Sahelian Centre
1988 - 1992
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IV.
Research Associate in the Legume
Physiology section (Agronomy Division)
ICRISAT Sahelian Centre
1992 to 1997
Scientific Officer in the Natural
Resource Management Program
(NRMP)
1997 to 1998
PhD study
1998 to June 2002
Scientific Officer-Soil and water conservation
June 2002 to date
Current activities:
a. Study the potential loss of nutrients due to water erosion following
termites’ activities on organic amendment applied on soil surface
b. Data collection to calibration of the crop growth DSSAT for sahelian crops
and cropping systems
c. Long-term experiment to study the process of rehabilitation of degraded
land using different types of mulch and study the effect of termites
activities on the process
d. Long-term experiment on combined use of live hedges of Acacia colei,
earth bunds or ‘demi_Lunes’, high value trees such as the domesticated
Ziziphus Mauritania (planted inside the ‘demi-Lunes’) and annual crops (in
rotation each year) to address the problems of soil fertility, soil erosion and
rural livelihood in the harsh agricultural production conditions of semi-arid
West Africa – this experiment is being conducted at ICRISAT Sadore.
e. In scaling up this technology the experiment is being repeated in Burkina
Faso and northern Ghana in the frame work of the challenge program on
water and food project (CP5) in the Volta basin coordinated by ICRISAT
f. Participatory validation trial on the strategic fertilizer placement technology
(micro-dose) as part of a decision support system project at ICRISAT –
Niamey
g. Coordination (acting) of the project ‘Improved livelihoods in the Sahel
through the development and implementation of household level bioeconomic decision support systems’ Funded by the Directorate-General
for Development Cooperation, DGCD Belgium
V.
Workshops, Symposiums and trainings
a. International Workshop on Integrated Water Resources Management
Tools; Application to the Niger Basin (Bamako – 28 – 30 March 2006)
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b. Advanced DSSAT4 Training Workshop - Assessing Crop Production,
Nutrient Management, Climatic Risks and Environmental sustainability
with simulations models – Accra Ghana Oct, 21 – 29, 2005
c. Workshop on Restoration of African farm - and rangeland through
integrative soil, water, nutrients and biota measures. A comparison of
approaches and experiences of different regions in sub-Saharan Africa.
(Accra Ghana 23 - 25 August 2004)
d. APSIM Training workshop on Crop growth simulation modeling – ICRISAT
Matopos Bulawayo – Zimbabwe – 12 – 26 July 2004
e. Fifth Workshop of the Optimizing Soil Water Use (OSWU) Consortium in
Pretoria (27 - 29 July 2004)
f. AfNet Symposium on Improving Human Welfare and Environmental
Conservation by Empowering Farmers to Combat Soil Fertility
Degradation (17 - 21 May 2004)
g. International Symposium for Sustainable Dryland Agriculture Systems, 2 –
5 December 2003 – Niamey, Niger
h. APSIM Training workshop on Crop growth simulation modeling, 22 – 24
march 2003 – ACMAD, Niamey, Niger
i. OSWU Steering committee meeting in Ankara, Turkey (22 – 26 April
2002)
VI.
Computer literacy
SOFTWARE
Statistics
Genstat, Mstat
COMPETENCE
Excellent
Graphics
Grapher, Excel, SigmaPlot
very Good
Modeling
Apsim
DSSAT
Good
Good
Data collection and processing
Excel, Foxpro, Quattro Pro
Excellent
Word processing
Microsoft Word, WordPerfect
Excellent
VII.
Spoken Languages
French:
Fluent
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VIII.
English:
Fluent
Fon:
Native
Mina
Fluent
Yoruba
Faire
Selected Publications
1.
Fatondji D. Martius C., Bielders C.L., Vlek P.L.G., Bationo A., Gerard B.
Effect of planting technique and amendment type on pearl millet yield,
nutrient uptake, and water use on degraded land in Niger. Nutrient Cycling
in Agroecosystems journal (Accepted for publication in January 2006)
2.
Mando A., Fatondji D., Zougmore R., Brussard L., Bielders C.L., and
Martius C. Restoring Soil Fertility in Semi-Arid West Africa; CH 27 In
BIOLOGICAL APPROACHES FOR SUSTAINABLE SOIL SYSTEMS. In
Soils, Plants and the Environment series. Edts. Norman Uphoff, Andrew
S. Ball, Erick Fernandes, Hans Herren, Olivier Husson, Mark Laing, Cheryl
Palm, Jules Pretty, Pedro A. Sanchez, Nteranya Sanguinga, Janice E.
Thies
3.
Pasternak D., Nikiema A., Fatondji D., Ndjeunga J., Koala S., Dan Goma
A. and Abasse T. 2005. The Sahelian Eco-Farm. In Les leçons tirées des
expériences de lutte contre la désertification au Sahel Actes des travaux
de l’atelier sous régional d’échange et de réflexion organisé par le Centre
de Recherche pour le Développement International (CRDI) 12 – 16 Juillet,
Saley Portudal, Sénégal. Edts. Innocent Butare, Jean Sibiri Zoundi,
Alassane Diallo
4.
Boubacar BARRY, Robert Zougmore, Fatondji Dougbedji. Best practices
in rainwater harvesting for agriculture in West Africa (Proceeding of the
workshop on Restoration of African farm- and rangeland through
integrative soil, water, nutrients and biota measures; A comparison of
approaches and experiences of different regions in sub-Saharan Africa.
(Accra Ghana 23 - 25 August 2004)) (In press)
5.
Fatondji D., and Dimes. Soil and water conservation to mitigate land
degradation. Towards understanding basic processes in the zai
technology; 5th OSWU Workshop in Pretoria (27 - 29 July 2004) (In press)
6.
Fatondji, Dougbedji 2002. Organic amendment decomposition, nutrient
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release and nutrient uptake by millet (Pennisetum glaucum L. R. Br) in a
traditional land rehabilitation technique (zai) in the Sahel, 2002. PhD
dissertation. Ecology and development Series No. 1 2002. Eds: Paul L.
Vlek, Manfred Denich, Christopher Martius, Nick van de Giesen
7.
Fatondji, Dougbedji, Christopher Martius and Paul Vlek. ‘Zai’ – A
traditional technique for land rehabilitation in Niger, 2001. ZEF News N o 8
September 2001
8.
Fatondji, Dougbedji, Christopher Martius and Paul Vlek. Organic
amendment decomposition, nutrient release and nutrient uptake by millet
(Pennisetum glaucum L. R. Br) in a traditional land rehabilitation technique
(zai) in the Sahel, 2001. Poster presented at the German Tropentag,
Edition of October 2001
9.
B.R. Ntare, J.H. Williams and F. Dougbedji 2001. Evaluation of groundnut
genotypes for heat tolerance under field conditions in the Sahelian
environment using a simple physiological model for yield, Journal of
Agricultural science Cambridge (2001), 136, 81-88
10. J.H. Williams, R.C. Nageswara Rao, F. Dougbedji, and H. S. Talwar.
Radiation interception and modelling as an alternative to destructive
samples in crop growth measurements, 1996. Ann. Applied Biology
(1996), 129: 151-160
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