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Pay Drechsel

Senior Fellow-Advisor - Research Quality Assurance

Research team

Water, growth and inclusion > Integrated circular economy transformations

Areas of expertise

Natural resources management resource recovery and reuse urban agriculture soil fertility plant nutrition

International Board for Soil Research and Management (IBSRAM). Pay served as scientific and technical advisor for WHO, FAO, DGIS, IDRC, SIDA, UN-Water and EU funded projects and expert groups and supervised a large number of graduate and postgraduate students. Pay authored or co-authored over 350 publications, half in peer-reviewed books and journals. He has worked extensively in West and East Africa, and South and South-East Asia. After longer stays in Thailand, Rwanda and Ghana, Pay is based since 2009 at IWMI HQ in Sri Lanka.

Current projects

Recent publications

On the feasibility of an agricultural revolution: Sri Lanka’s ban of chemical fertilizers in 2021.

Market demand for and producer profits of certified safe cabbage: evidence from test sales in traditional food markets in Northern Ghana.

United for progress: Ghana’s multi-institutional circular bioeconomy Innovation Hub.

The challenge of supporting and monitoring safe wastewater use in agriculture in LMIC.

Effectiveness of behaviour change interventions to reduce the risk of faecal contamination in urban irrigated vegetable value chains – applying the COM-B behavioural framework.

Contact

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Languages

English, German and French

Profiles

Based in

Sri Lanka office (Global headquarters)

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