Jeremias Mowo holds a PhD (Soil Science) from Wageningen University Netherlands (2000). From 1979 to 1989, he was an agronomist in cotton-based agro-systems in Western Tanzania. From 1990 to 1993, he was the National Coordinator for Soil and Fertilizer Use Research. From 1994 to 1999, he was Research Fellow with the Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University where he conducted research in the field of indigenous nutrient resources with emphasis on phosphate rock. From 1998 to date, he is the Site Coordinator for the Lushoto Benchmark site (Tanzania) of the African Highland Initiative, and principal investigator in a technology dissemination project funded by Farm Africa. He worked in various collaborative research networks including Management of Vertisols in Africa under IBSRAM and Alley Farming for Tropical Africa under IITA. He is interested in integrated Natural Resource Management, Low External Input Agriculture/organic farming, participatory technology transfer and indigenous knowledge in ecosystem management.

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