Dr. Gea D.M. Wijers MA MSc (Organizational Anthropologist, Political Scientist)

Social Sciences, sub-department Business, Consumer and Competence studies, Management Studies Group(MST), Wageningen University & Research

Research Question: Considering the inclusion of women, what are important institutional facilitators and constraints to dairy development extension services aimed at milk quality improvement by Indonesian and Thai smallholder dairy farmers in co-operatives? What are the opportunities and challenges to the upscaling of exemplary case-study findings to East Africa?

Dr. Edgar E. Twine MSc (Value Chain Economist)

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Research Question: How do business models manage risk and seasonality in smallholder dairy production and thereby improve productivity?