About the Speaker
Regis Chikowo is a soil scientist by training, with BSc and MPhil Degrees from the University of Zimbabwe and a PhD from Wageningen University.
He has over the past several years carried out basic and applied research on nutrient management on smallholder farms, largely in southern African countries of Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Approaches that integrate legumes to tap into biological N2-fixation to sustain production on smallholder farms have been core his investigations. He also integrates crop production systems modeling to study complex farming systems.
Most recently, he has been leading the implementation of Africa RISING project in Malawi through Michigan State University and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, IITA. He also enjoys teaching – from the basics of soil chemistry to the principles of crop production!
