Please join us in welcoming Birgit Boogaard to ILRI!

Birgit is joining the “Small ruminant value chains to reduce poverty and increase food security in India and Mozambique (imGoats)” project as a Post Doctoral Fellow effective 15 June 2011.

Birgit will be based in Vilanculos, Mozambique. She will lead imGoats research activities in Mozambique in close collaboration with CARE, our implementing partner in Mozambique. She will also work in close interaction with the imGoats team in India to develop research outputs across the two countries.

Birgit holds Msc in Animal Production Systems and, Communication and Innovation Studies and a PhD in Animal Production Systems and Rural Sociology. Her PhD focused on the socio-cultural sustainability of animal production systems. She has field work experiences in the Gambia, Brazil and Norway. After her PhD she worked as researcher at the System Innovation Group of Wageningen Livestock Research. Thereafter she became assistant professor of human-animal relationships at the Rural Sociology Group of Wageningen University.