About the Author

Dr. Dick Tinsley is an emeritus professor of Colorado State University who spent his entire career as a technical advisor to smallholder development projects. He worked for long periods in Viet Nam, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Malawi, Thailand, and Tanzania. He also participated in short-term assignments to Afghanistan, Bolivia, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Russian Federation, Uganda, Zambia, Ivory Coast and Iraq. In addition, he contributed to a farming systems research and development guidebook. In all of these assignments he was deeply involved with smallholder farming communities, extensive informal interviewing of farmers, and facilitating off and on-farm research programs. He currently teaches a class in agricultural development at Colorado State University and does short-term consulting.

The permanent address of the author is: Soil and Crop Science Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 80523 USA; E-mail: richard.tinsley@colostate.edu.

• Curriculum Vitae
• List of Publications
• Consultant Reports
  • Winrock - Zambia (Treadle Pumps & Cooperatives)
  • ACDI/VOCA - Uganda (Irrigation & Domestic Water
  • Winrock - Tajikistan (Irrigation)
  • ARD/Louis Berger - Iraq INMA Project
    • Practical Consideration for Promoting Drip Irrigation
    • Subleities & Practicalities of Irrigation in the US
    • GoogleEarth Evaluation of Prospective Irrigation Command Areas
    • Irrigation Renovations & Soil Reclamation Priorities
  • ACDI/VOCA Bolivia - FENCA Rice Production
  • ACDI/VOCA Uganda - Lwoba Irrigated Rice Farm
  • CNFA Malawi Soybean Value Chain
  • CNFA Nigeria West Africa Seed Association
  • ACDI/VOCA KIP Rice Irrigation
  • CNFA Kenya Soybean Value Chain
  • ACDI/VOCA Soybean Production & Out Growers in Ghana
  • Winrock Nigeria Rice Processing
    

Last Revised: 27 January 2010.