Amadou KEITA

Biography

Mr. Amadou KEÏTA followed his primary education in Mali at the “Lycée Askia Mohamed”. He obtained his engineering degree in Civil Engineering/Hydraulic Option at the National School for Engineers (ENI-Bamako). He specialized in Agricultural Engineering at the Inter-States School for Rural Equipment Engineers (EIER, now 2iE) , and after that, he joined in 1992 the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in a project on irrigation performance assessment and diagnosis in Burkina Faso and Niger.
From 1997 to 2006, Mr. KEÏTA became the sub-regional coordinator of the FAO project GCP/RAF/340/JPN, the activities of which focused on the development and experimentation of sustainable low-cost and water efficient small irrigation systems. The irrigation systems were designed to use simultaneously surface water and shallow groundwater for small scale farming. Three countries were targeted by the activities: Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.
Mr. KEITA has a Master in Physics & chemistry of the University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. He also holds a PhD degree in Land and Water Development of Wageningen University and UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands. He is the current President of the NGO “Au Secours Mon Arbre” (ASMA) working for forest development and environmental restoration. He is a Lecturer-Researcher at 2iE (www.2ie-edu.org).

Education

PhD in Land & Water Dev, WUR/Delf-IHE, The Netherlands, 2015
MSc in Land & Water Dev, Delft-IHE, The Netherlands, 2008
French MSc in Physics and Chemistry, UO, Burkina Faso, 2003
Ing. in Hydraulics, ENI, Mali, 1987

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

Agricultural engineering, Forest engineering, Crop science, Botany, Efficient and sustainable irrigation & drainage technologies, Rural Survey, Statistics, Physics, Chemistry, Renewable energy

Personal Interests

Jogging, Walking, Travelling, Exploration

Websites

• amakeita

• ausecoursmonarbre

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