Who are you?

[Joitske Hulsebosch]

Dear participants, we are very pleased to get to know you already online, so that contacts in July will be easy to make. Can you tell us a little bit about your background: what's your name, the country, the work you are doing?

You can tell us by clicking on 'reply to this' below this post, typing in the box, and click on Add Discussion. Simple enough! To start with myself, my name is Joitske Hulsebosch, I live in the Netherlands (in the Hague). I have worked in Kenya, Mali, Ethiopia and Ghana so you can see I have some African bias.. but I went to Chile too. My work is advising on online interaction, that's why I'm one of the facilitators of the online discussions.

[Dr. SULLEIMAN MOHAMED OMAR MPATE]

Hello friends, my name is Sulleiman Mpate living in tanzania and working with the Ministry of Livestock development and Fisheries. Currently am based in Lindi town working at the Regional secretariat as a Livestock Advisor dealing with stocking programme. Have experience in both dairy and indigenous stocks development schemes. I have just applied to be a member of the Dairy Development Forum.

[UWIMANA]

Hi, my names are Gaspard UWIMANA, MSc student in animal science at Wageningen University. I am from Rwanda. I am working as research assistant in a the Agricultural Reseach Institute of Rwanda ( ISAR). My interests are mostly cattle production systems and ruminants nutrition.
I am going to conduct a thesis research in Rwanda about socio-economic profitability of poor households keeping either local ( Ankole cows) or exotic ( Holsein, Jersey, brown suiss...). Welcome to the thousands hills country-Rwanda.