Piet van Asten

Uganda Uganda

Scientist at International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

Education

Piet van Asten is a systems agronomist at IITA-Uganda working on sustainable intensification of perennial-based cropping systems (coffee, banana, cocoa) in Africa’s humid zones for the past 13 years. He has over 20 years of professional research experience in Sub-Saharan Africa varying from peri-urban vegetable gardening in South Africa to irrigated rice schemes in West-Africa. He holds a PhD degree in soil science and agronomy from Wageningen University with a strong emphasis on soil quality and farming systems research. Over the past years he has been increasingly involved in managing and supporting research for development projects on a regional scale, with a strong focus on interdisci...