Zeyaur Khan
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Zeyaur R. Khan is a professor and the principal scientist at International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe).[1] He has dedicated his 30-year career as an international agricultural scientist to advancing the science and practice of agriculture by studying and applying chemical ecology, behavior, plant-plant and insect-plant interactions to improve farm productivity to combat poverty and food insecurity in Africa. He is responsible for the discovery and wide scale implementation of a pro-poor scientific innovation for enhancing food security and environmental sustainability in Africa]. This was achieved through the biologically-based IPM technology called "Push-Pull",[2] developed for small-holder cereal-livestock African farmers. Prof. Khan’s work is an example demonstrating that creativity and innovation in science can provide practical solutions for the real problems of thousands of small-holder poor farmers and promote their food security and sustainable livelihoods.
- M.S. (1977) entomology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
- Ph.D.(1980) entomology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India, Research on insect-plant interactions in cotton
- Postdoctoral fellow (1983–1985). International Rice Research Institute, Philippines, Research on chemical ecology of rice leafhoppers and planthoppers
- Research associate (1985–1986) University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA, Research on mechanism of resistance in soybean to lepidopteran insects
