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| Jim Suttie was trained at the Universities
of Aberdeen and Cambridge and the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture,
Trinidad. He worked for HMOCS in Kenya on crops and pastures for eleven
years then joined FAO in 1970 working in the field (India, Madagascar,
Pakistan, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, Tunisia and Niger) for sixteen
years on tasks which varied from irrigated fodder through pasture development
to watershed management. Jim joined the Grassland Group in Headquarters
in 1986; which he headed from Fernando Riveros’ promotion to Service
Chief in 1994 until retirement in 1996. Jim has travelled extensively
in northern Asia and the Himalaya-Hindu Kush region and has a long experience
of smallholder semi-arid farming, both rainfed and irrigated and traditional
pastoral systems.
Jim is still active and since retirement has undertaken many field
missions, mainly to Afghanistan, China, Mongolia and Nepal. He has
contributed to and edited or translated many publications in addition
to the Country Profile and Grassland Index series. He wrote Hay and
straw conservation for small-scale and pastoral conditions; in collaboration
with Steve Reynolds he edited Transhumant grazing systems in Temperate
Asia and FODDER OATS: a world overview; with Steve Reynolds and Caterina
Batello he edited Grasslands of the World. All are in the FAO Plant
Production and Protection Series. |
