Member of the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Hunger.
• Co-Founder of and former Coordinator at COSECHA (Association of Consultants for a Sustainable, Ecological and People-Centered Agriculture) in Honduras (1992), an organization whose primary purpose is to share many of these and other ideas with NGO's around the world.
• Author of Two Ears of Corn: A Guide to People-Centered Agricultural Improvement (1982), a book that has become a classic in agricultural development circles and is used by more than 60 universities and organizations.
• Former Head of the Department of Rural Development at the Panamerican Agricultural School of Honduras.
• Founded the San Martin Development Program, rated number one of forty-one exemplary programs around the world in a 1979 comparative study by Development Alternatives.
• Extensive experience as a field-level extensionist, local project director, free-lance development consultant, World Neighbors Representative for Central American and the Caribbean and international NGO coordinator.
• A leading proponent of an approach to rural agricultural development in the Third World that favors self-motivation and self-reliance and sustainable, "people-centered" agriculture.
• Pioneer and then major proponent of a series of methodologies and technologies now widely used in agricultural development, such as farmer-to-farmer extension, participatory technology development, green manure/cover crops and small-scale water management.
• Mr. Bunch earned his degree in International Agricultural Development from California State Polytechnic University.
• Argues that for technologies to be successful:
• There should be rapid, identifiable gains for the farmers.
• The process should be initiated using a small number of technologies.
• Farmers should be encouraged to avoid all forms of dependency and be capable of taking over programmes when development agencies leave.