Rachid Moussadek

Rachid Moussadek is Senior Scientist- Specialist in Soil and Sustainable Intensification, Joint Researcher at ICARDA/INRA and Chair of FAO-Global Soil Partnership/GSP-NENA in collaboration with a soil R/D consortium including ICARDA/INRA/GSP UM6P. He received his Ph.D. in Sustainable Land Management from Ghent University (Belgium) with a DES on Agro-climatology from Liege University (Belgium) and Master in Soil sciences from IAV HII. During his 25 years career, the main topics of his research were related to Soil- Climate-Cropping system (Conservation Agriculture, soil health and rehabilitation, soil fertility mapping and sustainable management, soil carbon sequestration in conservation farming systems in relation with climate change modeling). He has published more than thirty papers in peer-referred journals and presented his research results at various congress and scientific meetings. He coordinates several international and national projects (EU projects, OCP, CRDI, ICARDA, OADA, ...), expert for various funding institutions and private sector on (CSA) Climate Smart Agriculture (WB, GIZ, IFAD). He advised MSc and PhD students from Moroccan and European universities. He is currently advising 7 MSc and 4 PhD students on Conservation Agriculture, Soil Health and Land Suitability. He is a reviewer for different journals in soil management and environment topics.