Salvador Garibay

Projects

• Induction method organic pineapple (Costa Rica)
  
• Sourcing of tropical fruits for COOP (Costa Rica, Mexico, Sri Lanka etc.)
  
• Documentation: Organic Fruit and Vegetable Production in the Tropics
  
• Leaflet series tropical organic agriculture (Central America)
  
• Organisation: 1st Mesoamerican and Caribbean Meeting of Organic Producers and Researchers
  
• National Evaluiation of organic agriculture in Nicaragua
  
• BLE-Project: www.oekoregelungen.de
  
• INDOCERT (India): Market Opportunities and Challenges for Indian Organic Products
  
• Market Projects: Indian Organic Market Development (IOMDP) and Ecomercados

Activity areas

• Regions: Latin America, Spain, Laos
  
• Crop production, tropical fruits
  
• Market, Standards and Certification
  
• Documentation, Curricula, Training material
  
• Training
  
• Curricula
  
• Organic agriculture general

Training / professional career

• Since 2001at the International Cooperation Division of FiBL
  
• Since 2001 Inspections of organic farms in Switzerland for the Bio.inspecta certification agency
  
• 1998-2001 Trade (import and export) of organic products for a Swiss company
  
• 1997-1998 Post doc at the ETH Zurich
  
• 1996 Completion PhD Studies on agroecological maize cropping systems at ETH Zurich
  
• 1991-1996 Research assistant at the Institute of Plant Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
  
• 1989-1991 Research assistant at the Swiss Federal Research Stations with the following duties:
  
- Plant breeding program for cereals and maize
- Experiments and statistical data analysis of weed management for production of vegetables

• 1987-1988 Post graduate studies on horticulture and turf management at Marrit College, USA
  
• 1986-1988 Horticulture manager in USA
  
• 1986 Dipl. Ing. Agr. UdeG, Jalisco-Mexico
  
• 1986 Supervision of tilapia and shrimp production in Mexico
  
• 1982-1985 Farm and horticulture manager in Mexico
  
• 1981- 1986 bee keeper in Mexico