Tanya Stephen is a food security/ post harvest/ IPM researcher with over 14 years of experience developing and promoting IPM technologies, including inert dusts as grain protectants, use of the farmer field school approach, cultural methods, entomopathogenic fungi, pheromones, natural enemies, and resistant cultivars.

Her recent work has focused on innovation systems, access to information and service provision.she has a Practical background in multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary teamwork, use of participatory methodologies to identify and manage the diverse agricultural research needs of rural communities, a strong knowledge of East and Southern Africa, positive experiences of working with different teams in the region, a practical and open problem-solving mind, strong and well-used reporting skills.

She has a Project management experience of leading a number of collaborative research and development projects during the past eight years,and additional experience supporting project leaders. Residential assignments in Tanzania & Papua New Guinea.  Short assignments in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe & S. Africa. her languages: English, Swahili & French. She was awarded a De Montfort prize as one of Britain’s Top Younger Researchers at the House of Commons in March 2001.

Project role/responsibility:To develop appropriate research methodologies, farmer capacity building through farmer experimentation (farmer field schools etc), coping strategies analysis, pest management strategies, development of reports and other disseminations.