Job Kihara

Job Kihara

Initiative Co-Lead

Dr Job Kihara is an expert in soil health with over 20 years of extensive experience mostly within smallholder farmer contexts in sub-Sahara Africa. He is a passionate agronomist focused on improving crop productivity through integrated soil fertility management approaches and cropping systems improvements. Recent research interests include addressing the limitations of micronutrients in soils and the relations necessary to produce quality (agronomic biofortification) and soil-based climate change adaptations. Job is team leader on soil and water management within the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT and the co-lead of the Excellence in Agronomy (EiA) initiative of the One CGIAR, working to accelerate development and delivery of agronomy at scale solutions to millions of farmers