Peter Thorne

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  • Peter Thorne's details
    • Country: Britain
    • Region: United Kingdom
    • Studies: Crop-livestock systems scientist
    • University: ILRI
  • Peter Thorne's presentations
    • Sustainable Intensification: ASSP

  Peter Thorne is a crop-livestock systems scientist with expertise in feed, water, information and other resources needed by smallholder mixed crop-livestock farmers. He has a degree in agriculture and forest sciences. He completed his Ph.D. research in animal nutrition in 1986 at the University of Nottingham with part of the research studies carried out at the University of the Philippines in Los Banos.

  His career has encompassed both the public and private sectors focused mostly on the evolution of mixed farming systems in Africa and Asia. Before joining ILRI in 2012, Peter spent 12 years as an independent consultant working on both research and development projects. He started his career, post-qualification, in the Pacific Islands working for the what was then the UK government’s Natural Resources Institute (NRI).