IIA Faculty

Dieudonné Baributsa, Ph.D

Assistant Professor
Program Associate, IPM CRSP Program in Central Asia

Contact information:

319 Agriculture Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824, USA

Phone: (517) 432-5525
Fax: (517) 353-1888

Email:baributs@msu.edu



Education:

Dec. 2006

Ph.D, Cropping Systems/Agronomy and Crop physiology.
Crop and Soil Science, Michigan State University (MSU), East Lansing, MI.

Dec. 2006

Specialization in International Development, College of Social Science, MSU.

Dec. 2003

M.Sc., Agronomy, Crop and Soil Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

Feb. 1998

BSc., Crop production. Institut Facultaire des Sciences Agronomiques, Kisangani, Dem. Rep. Congo.


Professional Interest:

Sustainable Agriculture, Organic production, Integrated Pest Management, Food Safety, Plant Breeding and Biotechnology, Intellectual Property Right, Human and Institutional capacity building, Program/Project development and Implementation, and Rural community development.



International Experience:

  • Currently he works on various international agricultural development initiatives in various countries around the world; in West Africa, East Africa, Central Asia and Eastern Europe. One of the initiatives is the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) CRSP Program in Central Asia, a collaborative project funded by USAID.  Other activities are focused on Human and institutional Capacity Building.
  • He worked in Rwanda as Director of ISAR Tamira Research Station, Province of Gisenyi and as a Maize Program Agronomist.
  • He worked in agricultural development in Rwanda and in the Democratic Republic of Congo to assist farmers increase crop production.


Selected Publications:

  • Baributsa, D., E. F. Foster, K. Thelen, A. Kravchenko, D. Mutch and M. Ngouajio. 2008. Corn and Cover Crop Response to Corn Density in an Interseeding System. Agr. J. 100 (4): in Press.
  • Maredia, K.M. and D. Baributsa (Editors). 2008. Integrated Pest Management in Central Asia. Proceedings of the Central Asia Regional IPM Forum, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, May 2007.
  • Maredia, K.M. and D. Baributsa. 2008. Ecologically-based Participatory and Collaborative Research and Capacity Building in Integrated Pest Management in Central Asia Region. Proceedings of the Central Asia Regional IPM Forum, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, May 2007.
  • Aitmatov, M., G. Bird, W. Pett and D. Baributsa. 2008. Development and Dissemination of IPM knowledge through Outreach and University Education Programs in Central Asia. Proceedings of the Central Asia Regional IPM Forum, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, May 2007.
  • Baributsa, D., C. Weir, C. Weebadde, S. Kumar and K. Maredia. 2005. Building Human Resources and Institutional Capacity in Emerging Areas of International Agricultural development. Proceedings of the 7th African Crop Science Society Conference, Entebbe-Uganda, December 2005.
  • Maredia, K.M., L. Olsen, C. DiFonzo and D. Baributsa. 2003. Capacity Building in Integrated Pest Management in Michigan and Worldwide: Experience of Michigan State University. Proceedings of the International conference on Integrated Pest Management in Sub-Saharan Africa. Kampala-Uganda, September 2002.

Language skills:
Fluent in French, English, Kinyarwanda/Kirundi, Swahili and Lingala.