ISICAD working group is based at the
Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food (BLE)
Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung

Our Team

Marc Bernard

Programme Coordinator | MSc Agriculture

• Studied Agriculture, Plant Production and Soil Science
• 15 years of agricultural research in Benin, Cameroon and Nigeria
• Coordination of the Special Research Program SFB308 in Benin, "Adapted Farming in West Africa" of the University of Hohenheim
• Languages: English, Dutch, French, Spanish, German

Henning Knipschild

Technical Coordinator | MSc Biology

• Studied biology and agraroecology
• Work with GTZ in Indonesia and Costa Rica
• Webdesigner
• Languages: English, Indonesian, French, Spanish , German

Vilma Plum

Programmer | MSc Agriculture

• Studied agriculture and plant production
• Consultant in GIS and Mapping
• Trained to be a programmer
• Lecturer in IT
• Webdesigner and database specialist
• Languages: English, Spanish , German

Gerd Niemeier

Programmer

• Degree in programming
• Webdesigner
• Database specialist
• Languages: English , German

Varsamis Karamanidis

Programmer

• Trained to be a programmer
• Webdesigner
• Database specialist
• Languages: Greek, German, English