Dr. Rolf Sommer
Country of current residence
Germany
Current position
Senior Scientist Soil Health and Climate Change
Current institute employer
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Since
2019
Website current institute
Previous positions
2001 - 2004 Postdoc at CIMMYT, Mexico
2004 - 2007 Senior Researcher at ZEF
2007 - 2013 Senior Researcher at ICARDA
2013 - 2018 Senior Scientist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Nairobi, Kenya
Profession
Agricultural Engineer
Specialisation
Crop modeling, soil scienc, restoration of degraded landscapes
2010
2010.
Simulating water use and N response of winter wheat in the irrigated floodplains of Northwest Uzbekistan.
Field Crops Research,
116
: 239-251
.
2009
2009.
Modeling the impacts of contrasting nutrient and residue management practices on grain yield of sorghum (Sorghum bicolour (L.) Moench) in a semi-arid region of Ghana using APSIM.
Field Crops Research,
113
: 105-115
.
2008
2008.
Evaluation of CropSyst for simulating the potential yield of cotton in Uzbekistan.
Agronomy for Sustainable Development,
28(2)
: 345-354
.
Further Information
2007
2007.
Model-based assessment of maize cropping under conventional and zero-tillage in highland Mexico.
Soil & Tillage Research,
94
: 83-100
.
2005
2005.
Integrated Farm-Scale Modelling of Land, Water and Resource Allocation in the Khorezm Region of Uzbekistan.
In: Proceedings of the International Conference “The Global Food & Product Chain – Dynamics, Innovations, Conflicts, Strategies”. Centre for Agriculture in the Tropics and Subtropics, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart
2004
2004.
Nutrient balance of shifting cultivation by burning or mulching in the Eastern Amazon – evidence for subsoil nutrient accumulation.
Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems,
68
: 257–271
.
2003
2003.
Model-based assessment of maize cropping under conventional and zero-tillage in highland Mexico – preliminary results.
Poster presented at the 2003 Annual Meetings of the ASA-CSSA-SSSA, Denver
2001
2001.
Water and nutrient balance under slash-and-burn agriculture in the Eastern Amazon, Brazil - The role of a deep rooting fallow vegetation.
In: W.J.Horst, M.K.Schenk, A.Bürkert, N.Claassen, H.Flessa, W.B.Frommer, H.E.Goldbach, H.-W.Olfs, V.Römheld, U.Sattelmacher, U.Schmidhalter, S.Schubert, N.v.Wirén, and L.Wittenmeyer (eds.):
Plant Nutrition Food Security and Sustainability of Agro-Ecosystems through Basic and Applied Research.
Kluwer Academic Publishers.
1014-1015.
2000
2000.
Water and nutrient dynamic of slash-and-mulch agriculture in the Eastern Amazon.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Göttingen.
Cuvillier Verlag Göttingen
Further Information
Additionals, Curriculum Vitae
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Research countries
- Uzbekistan
Former
Division/Group:
Ecology and Natural Resources Management
Office E-Mail:
r.sommer(at)cgiar.org
