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Kate Amber is a Senior Research Fellow in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit. Kate’s research broadly focuses on interventions that can increase incomes for smallholders and other microenterprises in agrifood value chains, with a specific focus on the inclusion of women. This includes work on programming in fragile settings, innovations in agricultural finance, and regulatory solutions for food safety.
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I have 12 years of professional experience in agronomic research, plant breeding and specialization in seed system of biofortified crops such as cassava, maize, beans, etc. In my professional career, I have held numerous of positions of responsibility in the previous institutions, currently in my current position with CIAT / HarvestPlus, I am managing the fields officers staff based in the project action areas. Here are the details related to my experience:
Research associate to HarvestPlus
Job title : Seed system specialist
Department: Crop production
Company: HarvestPlus