Dr. Rolando H. Cerda

Rolando Cerda is an Agronomist Engineer with a Master's in Ecological Agriculture and Agroforestry, and a Ph.D. in Ecological and Agronomic Sciences. Dr Cerda is based in CATIE, Costa Rica, as a specialist, researcher and professor in agroforestry systems with perennial crops, where he is the leader of the Unit Agroforestry and Breeding of Coffee and Cacao. He has 25 years of experience in cacao and 10 years in coffee. He coordinates important projects of research, training and development at regional levels in Latin American and Caribbean countries, and he also supervises the International Coffee and Cacao Germplasm Collections of CATIE. He has developed research on the assessment of multiple ecosystem services (diversified production, regulation of pests and diseases, soil quality, carbon sequestration), useful for the design/management of sustainable agroforestry systems. He has produced papers for the scientific community, as well as written and audiovisual publications for farmers, students and technicians.