XIV INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF RICE FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN & 9th International Rice and Wheat Blast Conference

Research Agricultural Engineer at the Delta Water Management Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) in Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA. She received her Ph.D. in Agronomy from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska, USA in 2005. Dr. Adviento-Borbe’s research focuses on water resources management, sustainable intensification of cropping systems, crop productivity, climate mitigation potentials and resilience of agricultural row crops. Over the past 30 years, he has studied a wide range of crop field research in Southeast and East Asia, USA and Italy, focusing on crop productivity, fertilizer use efficiency, nutrient and water management, greenhouse gas/odor emissions, and crop resilience.

She is ARS team leader for the U.S. Global Research Alliance (GRA) as the U.S. representative on the Paddy Rice in the Americas Research Subgroup, a member of the U.S. National Cotton Council Technical Advisory Committee, and an Advisor to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s Conservation Agriculture Alliance for Asia and the Pacific (CAAAP).