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The Department is highly committed to teaching, research and services. Faculty members lead the nation in cutting edge research on soil, irrigation, plant health and crop science and provide outstanding outreach activities through training the trainers and training the Lebanese farmers at AREC and other regions of Lebanon. Their quest is to carry on the Department’s continuing mission for excellence.
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Yusuf A. AbouJawdah |
Docteur en Sciences Agronomiques, Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques de Gembloux. Belgium, 1983. Professor of Plant Pathology at the Faculty of Agricultural and Food sciences since 1991. Previously, Plant Protection Expert with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Major activities include teaching, research, services and consultancies to the Ministry of Agriculture and several NGOs.
The major research interests are: Integrated pest management, improvement or development of diagnostic techniques for plant pathogens (viruses, phytoplasma), breeding for resistance using marker assisted selection or development of transgenic plants based on gene silencing (pathogen derived resistance), host-pathogen interaction, induced resistance and virology. Recent research topics:
- Development of tomatoes with combined resistance to Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) and soilborne pathogens using both virus-derived resistance and molecular marker assisted breeding.
- Development and Improvement of Local Seed Potato Production.
- Survey, molecular characterization and management of new threatening cucurbit-infecting whitefly-transmitted geminiviruses in Lebanon.
- Biological control of insects using a locally isolated entomopathogenic fungus.
- Survey and management of almond witches’-broom Phytoplasma in Lebanon.
- Development of tomatoes with resistance to TYLCV and to abiotic stress (heat, drought, salinity)
Email: abujawyf@aub.edu.lb
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| Issam Bashour |
Ph.D., University of California-Davis, 1977. Dr. Bashour is professor of soil science and plant nutrition at the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences (FAFS). In addition to his responsibilities at FAFS, he provides technical consultancies to national organizations, international establishments and large farming projects in Saudi Arabia, North Africa and several Middle Eastern countries.
Primary areas of research are: soil fertility, fertilizer technology and use and conservation agriculture. He has a long list of publications including two chapters in Encyclopedia of Life Support system (EOLSS) developed under the auspices of UNESCO, UN http://www.eolss.net and co-authored two manuals published by FAO and now used as references in Lebanon and other neighboring countries:
Email: ib02@aub.edu.lb
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| Jad Chaaban |
Ph.D., Toulouse School of Economics, 2004. Dr. Chaaban is Assistant Professor of Economics and Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs at FAFS. Prior to joining AUB, he was an Economist in the World Bank’s Middle East regional office, where he undertook research related to poverty reduction and economic management, covering Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. He is currently the president and founding member of the Lebanese Economic Association, and he serves as an expert for the Middle East Youth Initiative at the Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings, and as an Associate Researcher with the Toulouse School of Economics in France. His research on Middle Eastern development issues has appeared in the International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, the Middle East Development Journal, Middle Eastern Studies, and the Arab Human Development Reports Research Paper Series.
His current research interests include poverty and inequality in polarized societies; youth development and the economics of agro-food industries.
Email: jc11@aub.edu.lb
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| Ali Chalak |
PhD, University of London, 2008. Dr. Chalak is Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences. Dr. Chalak has earned his BSc degree in Agriculture from AUB in 2000, and completed his MSc in Tropical Agricultural Development from the University of Reading, UK, in 2001. He then went on to complete a PhD in Applied Economics at Imperial College London, UK, in 2008. From 2006 to 2009, Dr. Chalak has worked as a consultant in the UK water sector, after which he joined AUB in his current position. His research focuses on consumer food demand modelling and environmental and non-market valuation, and was published in a number of journals including Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Agricultural Economics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics and Water Science and Technology.
Email: ac22@aub.edu.lb
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| Mustapha A. Haidar |
Ph.D., Colorado State University, 1992. Dr. Haidar is the head of the Department of Agricultural Sciences and Professor of Weed Science at the Faculty of Agricultural and Food sciences. He distributes his time between various administrative tasks, teaching, research and services. Primary area of research focuses on photobiology and light-signal transduction in dodder (Cuscuta spp), sustainable management of broomrape (Orobanche spp) and organic weed management.
He has authored and co-authored various number of publications. Recent published works include: “Blue light induced changes in inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate in dodder (Cuscuta campestris) seedlings” and “Survival of weed seeds subjected to sheep rumen digestion”
Email: mhaidar@aub.edu.lb
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| Musa N. Nimah |
Ph.D., Utah State University, 1972. Dr. Nimah is professor of irrigation and water resources management at the faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences. He is involved in teaching, research, services to the university and the community, and consultation.
Primary area of research focuses on Water conservation on farm basis, mainly on: Deficit irrigation, water use efficiency and water productivity. Also, his research is oriented toward optimization modeling of crop yield as a function of crop evapotranspiration and water use. Dr. Nimah published as first author and co-author numerous articles in refereed journals and many chapters in books related to the above subjects, and attended various conferences, symposiums and other technical meeting all over the world.
Due to the output of his work he was honored by the Irrigation Association of America by bestowing to himin 1998:
“The Crawford Reid Award, as the irrigation man of the year outside the USA” And in 2010, Utah State University, College of Agriculture named him to “The Hall of Honor”
Email: nimah@aub.edu.lb
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| Adib Saad |
Email: asaad@aub.edu.lb
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| Sui-Kwong Yau |
Ph.D., University of Western Australia, 1985. Dr. Yau is the Professor of Agronomy at the Faculty of Agricultural and Food sciences. He distributes his time between various activities of teaching, research, and services.
His primary area of research focuses on conservation agriculture, the usefulness of early sowing and irrigation as a technique under climate change, crop diversification in the semi-arid areas, and safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) breeding. He has authored and co-authored various numbers of publications. Recent published works include: “Conservation versus conventional tillage on performance of three different crops” and “Response of rainfed safflower to nitrogen under Mediterranean conditions”
Email: sy00@aub.edu.lb
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