Prof Sue Walker

CLAB-Africa Senior Researcher

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Location
South Africa

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Prof. Sue Walker is a retired Agrometeorology Principal Researcher at the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) – Natural Resources and Engineering (NRE), Pretoria. She is a Senior Researcher on the CLAB-Africa project at the University of Pretoria’s ARUA Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Food Systems (ARUA-SFS). She currently leads GIZ-SADC and South African Department of Agriculture, Land Reform, and Rural Development projects based at the ARC-NRE. She is Professor Emeritus in Agrometeorology at the University of the Free State Department of Soil, Crop, and Climate Sciences and has supervised and graduated 22 PhD students; published 128 peer-reviewed scientific articles, 29 book chapters, and many technical reports; and has made numerous presentations at national and international conferences. Prof. Walker develops climate services by translating scientific results into useful operational messages, with experience in Southern and East Africa and in South-East Asia. She works with farming communities using participatory methods to identify limiting factors in farming systems and co-develop interventions to promote sustainable productivity. She applies evidence-based science using crop-climate modelling, developing adaptation strategies to address climate variability. She has led the development of courses on a variety of topics related to the interface between climate and agriculture and has successfully provided ‘training of trainers’ to a wide spectrum of participants, including agricultural extension practitioners, water resource managers, university lecturers, and lead farmer facilitators.