Dr. Ana Assuncao
Agriculture, Biological and related sciences , Plant Sciences
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Agriculture
water management, ecosystem services, agro-ecological landscape change and transformation in sub Sahara Africa, South Asia
Development processes, water management and sustainability in field to meso-scale agricultural landscapes for food, fodder , fibre production,
livelihood improvements
Interdisciplinary agro-eco systems research
Constructs of resilience , transformation in coupled social -ecological systems
Rainfed crop-livestock opportunities
Sub Sahara Africa, Asia , drylands
Assess, empirically and through modelling water -nutrient-biomass processes at landscape scale for exploring past and future social-ecological transformation
English, French, Swedish
Karpozouglou, T., Barron, J. (online Oct 2014). Pathways for sustainable transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa using water-harvesting technologies: A global and regional perspective (Phys Chem Earth J)
Douxchamps, S., Ayantunde, A., Barron, J. 2014. Taking stock of forty years of agricultural water management interventions in smallholder systems of the Volta Basin. Water Resources and Rural Development 3:1-13
Barron, J. (2014). Water resources and functions for agro-ecological systems at the landscape scale (Ch.7). In "Water Resilience for Human Prosperity" Eds Rockstrom et al, Cambridge University Press
Barron, J., Tharme, R., Herrero, M. 2013. Drivers of and challenges for global food security (Chapter 2). In 2Managing water and agro-ecosystems for food security2 Eds. E. Boelee, (IWMI) and Cabi
Barron, J. 2012.Soils as a water resource: some thoughts on managing soils for productive landscapes meeting development challenges. (Wageningen UR Open Journal thematic issue)
Stein, C., Ernstson, H., Barron, J. 2011. A social network approach to analyzing water governance: The case of the Mkindo catchment, Tanzania. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 36(14-15):1085-1092
Barron, J., Enfors, E., Cambridge, H., Adamou, M. 2010. Coping with rainfall variability: Dryspell mitigation and implication on landscape water balances in smallscale farming systems in semi-arid Niger. Int. J. Water Res Dev 26:523-542
CLEANED : Comprehensive Livestock-Aquaculture Environmental Assessment for Improved Nutrition, a Secured Environment and Sustainable Development along Value Chains.2013-2014. SEI , ILRI, CIAT, CSIRO funded by Bill& Melinda Gates Foundation
Royal Society-DfID Human Capacity Network Award. 2013-14. Functions of soil and water ecosystem services for agriculture and forestry (FUSES); Uni. of York, Uni. KwaZulu Natal, Sokoine and Uni. of Abdou Moumouni /Niamey,
EU FP7. 2011-2014. WhaTeR: Water Harvesting Technologies Revisited: Potentials for Innovations, Improvements and Upscaling in Sub-Saharan Africa. http://whater.eu/
WORLD BANK. 2013. Addressing the Climate Vulnerability of Africa's Infrastructure. SEI with partners. to develop component on understanding of smallholder informal irrigation in 7 sub-Sahara Africa river basins.
Challenge Programme Water and Food (CPWF) Limpopo and Volta. 2010-2013. L1/V1 "Targeting and scaling out opportunities and potential impacts of rainwater management for smallholder farmers in the Limpopo and Volta basin".
Member of IAHS-AISH: international Association of Hydrological Sciences
From 1st February 2015 : Will take up new position as the Research Theme Leader of 'Sustainable Water Management', International Water Management Institute (Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Providing expertise in research for development initiatives /strategies funding action
Have management and leadership experience from multi-partner international research for development collaborations
Provides continuous supervision and mentoring of junior staff , students , PhD and post-docs from multiple backgrounds
Ability to engage and lead multi-disciplinary teamwork with a host of various backgrounds and expertise
Capacity and track record of various research , policy , teaching and public communication of science
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Agriculture, Biological and related sciences , Plant Sciences
Agriculture, Biological and related sciences , Food Science and TechnologyPostharvest Pathology
Agriculture, Environment, Issues at the intersection of agricultural sciences, agricultural engineering, and hydrology. Evaluating processes under the conditions of climate change. Deriving technical and procedural adjustments. Developing hydrological balances for procedures and branches of industry as the basis of further technical/procedural developments.
Agriculture, Agricultural and food economics, economics of developing countries