International Consultations

2010

Short-term IPM Expert of Tropical and Subtropical Pests at Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, financed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

2004-2005

Short-term Plant Protection Expert, in the Multidisciplinary Programming Mission for Sustainable Agriculture in Kuwait, financed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

2003-2004

Short-term IPM Consultant, in the Multidisciplinary Programming Mission for Sustainable Agriculture in Zanzibar, financed by The Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA).

1999

Short-term IPM Consultant, in Fayoum, Egypt IPM Project (FIPMP), financed by the Netherlands.

1993-1996

IPM Consultant, in the IFAD / WORLD BANK Project “Small-holders Cotton Rehabilitation Project (SCRP)” in Uganda, financed by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).

POST DOCTORAL VISITS/ TRAINING

¨ 1990 – 2002

USA, short scientific visits (2-4 weeks) to USDA and the Universities of California, Riverside and Davis, New Mexico State University, and Texas A& M.

¨ 1989

UK, University of Sheffield (3 months), received training in” Taxonomy of Parasitic Hymenoptera ” Sponsored by the British Council in Egypt”,

¨ 1987

Germany, Dept. of Biological Control, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Darmstadt (3 weeks), visiting the laboratory for mass-production of the parasitoid, Trichogramma.

¨ 1984

USA, University of Maryland, Maryland State, (10 months), conducting research on “Influence of Allelochemicals on insect hosts and their parasitoids” Sponsored by USAID.