I am an Agricultural Scientist working as Scientist II, Data-driven Agriculture at The Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT. With over a decade of experience in international agricultural research, I have contributed to several topics to enable food systems transformation such as farm innovation and experimentation, data efficiency, data integration, software development, agriculture and food interface, agrobiodiversity, climate change adaptation, and social development studies. I am committed to open-source data (and workflows) and most of my code is published in our Team Page on GitHub.

Send me an email (k dot desousa at cgiar dot org) if you are interested in my work and want some mentorship. We have access to plenty of data from on-farm trials around the world. Innitially, we can provide in-kind support (our time, data and expertise). However, scholarships or consultantships can be discussed once a research question or any other work matches the goals of our projects. Here some topic/questions that I can highlight.

• Impact of climate variability on crop variety performance (i.e. groundnut in Tanzania, sweetpotato in Ghana, sorghum in Tanzania and Nigeria, beans in Tanzania, cowpea in Nigeria, etc.)
• On-farm performance of NUS crops and implications on farmer crop variety adoption and seed systems
• Trait prioritization and implications on crop variety adoption
• Disentangling crop variety target product profiles (TPP) using citizen science data
• Agroclimatic thresholds on crop physiological stages
• Better ways to provide feedback to participants in citizen science experiments
• And more...