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Michael Anthony Stocking is the Professor of Natural Resource Development and immediate past Dean of the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom. He has been involved in tropical agricultural development, land resources, conservation of biodiversity and soil conservation since 1969. His experience is in the sustainable use of natural resources through the appropriate development of conservation practices adapted to local socioeconomic and farming conditions. With field experience in sub-Saharan Africa, South America, and South and South-east Asia, his work involves soils investigations, land management, agricultural biodiversity and the relationship between land degradation and vegetation productivi Michael Anthony Stocking is the Professor of Natural Resource Development and immediate past Dean of the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom. He has been involved in tropical agricultural development, land resources, conservation of biodiversity and soil conservation since 1969. His experience is in the sustainable use of natural resources through the appropriate development of conservation practices adapted to local socioeconomic and farming conditions. With field experience in sub-Saharan Africa, South America, and South and South-east Asia, his work involves soils investigations, land management, agricultural biodiversity and the relationship between land degradation and vegetation productivity.

Professor Stocking is currently Vice-Chair of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility. He is responsible for scientific advice on the ‘land degradation’ focal area of the GEF and the Operational Program (No.15) on ‘sustainable land management’. He has been a consultant adviser to many agencies including FAO, UNDP, UNEP, The World Bank, ADB, IUCN, WWF-UK, DFID, DANIDA, SIDA and NORAD. As a member of advisory and management boards to DFID, the United Nations University and the CGIAR, he is involved closely with international development aid and the promotion of research within developing countries. He chairs the Scientific Advisory Committees to CIAT-TSBF, as well as the GEF-UNEP project on below-ground biodiversity. He was the Associate Scientific Coordinator for the first GEF multi-national project on agricultural biodiversity: the UNU-UNEP People, Land Management and Environmental Change - PLEC (1996-2002) project. He has been the author and senior consultant for a number of large GEF projects, including the FAO-UNEP Land Degradation Assessment for Drylands (2004-10) and the World Bank International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (2005-7). Until his appointment as STAP Vice-Chair, he was a regular STAP Roster reviewer of GEF projects for OP12, 13 and 15. Training is a key component of his experience with courses offered in agriculture, resource assessment and management, land degradation control and sustainable rural livelihoods.

Professor Stocking is author of over 130 scientific papers, book chapters and reports, including seven books on various aspects of environment and development. His book entitled Handbook for the Field Assessment of Land Degradation is published in English (Earthscan, London) and Spanish (Mundi Prensa, Madrid) and an Arabic version is in translation. His two most recent books are Agricultural Biodiversity of Smallholder Farms of East Africa (2004, UNU Press) and Renewable Natural Resources Management for Mountain Communities (2005, ICIMOD). His 2003 review paper in Science on the prospects for tropical soils and food security for the next 50 years is widely cited. ...more

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	Manual para la evaluación de campo de la degradación de la tierra by Michael Stocking (Editor), Niamh Murnaghan (Editor), Carolina Padilla (Translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soil potentials: An evaluation of a rating method in Zimbabwe 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	People and Environment: Development for the Future by Stephen Morse (Editor), Michael Stocking (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Agricultural Biodiversity in Smallholder Farms of East Africa by Fidelis Kaihura (Editor), Michael Stocking (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	People And Environment: Development For The Future by Stephen Morse (Editor), Michael Swash, Michael Stocking (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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