Moffatt K. Ngugi

Dr. Moffatt K. Ngugi is a supervisory Agriculture Development Officer at the Center for Agriculture, Production Systems Division with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Liberia. He leads the Food Integrated Systems for Food Production team, working on issues related to agriculture, nutrition, and natural resources management. Moffatt is a geospatial ecologist by training with a background in rangeland management, physical land resources, and agroecology. He studied at the University of Nairobi (BS), Ghent University (MS) and Colorado State University (PhD). Examples of his research and work experience include dissertation research on social and ecological characterization of herbivore key resource areas in the horn of Africa, postdoctoral research at University of California Davis using GIS/remote sensing to constrain biogeochemical modeling of greenhouse gases, working as a consultant for terrestrial carbon science, and inventory of forage resources in Dakota grasslands in the US at USDA-ARS (Agricultural Research Service).