Biography
Anthony Whitbread is the Global Director of a research program 'Resilient Farm and Food Systems' and the Country Representative for Tanzania with the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Dar es Salaam. With a PhD from the University of New England in Soil Science and Agronomy, Anthony leads a diverse team of scientists across south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa in an innovation systems mode devising strategies to manage climatic risk, soil fertility and identifying market led development opportunities. This role was preceded by a long research career in the crop-livestock systems of semi-arid Australia, SE Asia and Southern Africa with CSIRO Australia and as a full Professor (W3) of Crop Production Systems in the Tropics at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen, Germany.
Research
As the Director of a global program, Anthony’s research covers agronomy and soil science, farming systems analysis, crop modelling, climate risk management, spatial analysis, and digital agriculture, all focussed on research for development in smallholder farming systems. He maintains high science credibility as a highly citated author (H-index=34, citations>6000) and an educator as the superviser of several postdocs and PhD students through roles as Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia, external supervisor at the University of Sydney, Australia, the University of Wageningen, Netherlands and continuing supervisory roles at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen, Germany.
Publications
Recent and relevant to TIGRESS:
- Kadiyala, M.D.M., Nedumaran, S. Padmanabhan, J., Gumma, M.K., Gummadi, S., Srigiri, S.R., Robertson, R., Whitbread, A. (2021). Modeling the potential impacts of climate change and adaptation strategies on groundnut production in India. Science of the total Environment https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145996
- Green, A.S., Dixit, S., Garg, K.K., Sandya N.R., Singh, G., Vatta, K., Whitbread, A.M., Jones M., Singh, R.N. Petrie, C.A. (2020). An interdisciplinary framework for using archaeology, history and collective action to enhance India’s agricultural resilience and sustainability. Environmental Research 15 (10) 105021 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aba780
- Kadiyala, M.D.M. Gummadi, S. Irshad, M. Palanisamy, R., Gumma, M.K., Whitbread, A. (2020). Assessment of climate change and vulnerability in Indian state of Telangana for better agricultural planning. Theoretical and Applied Climatology https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-020-03425-8
- Kumar, S., Mishra, A.K., Pramanik, S. Mamidanna, S. Whitbread, A.M. (2020). Climate risk, vulnerability and resilience: Supporting livelihood of smallholders in semiarid India. Land Use Policy 97, 104729. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104729
- R. Padmaja, K. Kavitha, S. Pramanik, V. D. Duche, Y. U. Singh, A. M. Whitbread, R. Singh, K. K. Garg, S. Leder (2020). Gender Transformative Impacts from Watershed Interventions: Insights from a Mixed-Methods Study in the Bundelkhand Region of India. Transactions of the ASABE 63 (1) 153-163 doi: 10.13031/trans.13568
- Kumar S., Craufurd, P., Haileslassie, A., Thiagarajah, R., Rathore, A., Whitbread, A. 2019. Farm typology analysis and technology assessment: An application in an arid region of South Asia. Land Use Policy 88, 104149 DOI:10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104149
Full list can be found: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FsWOGFcAAAAJ
