Agnès Bégué

Agnès Bégué received the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University Paris VII, Paris, France, in 1991. She has initial training in agricultural engineering. After a 2-year Postdoctoral Research Position spent with the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, and another 2-year spent at CNES (France), she got a permanent position in 1995 with CIRAD, a French scientific organization specialized in development-oriented agricultural research for the tropics and subtropics, Montpellier, France. Her research interests include the development of satellite data-based models and methods to assess land productivity and characterize cropping practices, in particular for smallholder agriculture in Africa.