{"id":15,"date":"2018-03-13T12:23:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T12:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2018-04-24T14:43:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T14:43:37","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_113\" style=\"width: 208px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deco.oshipha\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113\" class=\"wp-image-113\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2018\/04\/WP_20170706_11_12_46_Prov-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"Decolius Kalumo's Photo\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-113\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Decolius<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Decolius Kalumo is an MSc. Climate Change Agriculture Food Security (MSc CCAFS) student at the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuigalway.ie\/\"> National University of Ireland Galway<\/a> . Decolius&#8217;s research focuses on the Landscape of Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) in Malawi. His work on this will also lead to the development of Malawi&#8217;s CSA country profile, it is facilitated and supported by Plant and Agribiosciences Department at NUI Galway, CGIAR&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/ciat.cgiar.org\/\">CIAT<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ccafs.cgiar.org\/publications\/csa-country-profiles\">CCAFS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Decolius has a background in Irrigation Engineering and holds a degree from the University of Malawi, Bunda College of Agriculture now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bunda.luanar.mw\/luanar\/\">LUANAR<\/a>. he has worked with different research consultants, as a part-time lecturer for LUANAR, NRC Campus before taking a position as a Researcher at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3d4agdev.org\/\">NUIG-3D4AGDEV<\/a> Project hosted at CIAT Malawi offices. Decolius is supported by the IrishAid Fellowship Training Programme.<\/p>\n<p><strong>With support from :<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-127\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2018\/04\/Irish_Aid_logo-300x145.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"63\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2018\/04\/Irish_Aid_logo-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2018\/04\/Irish_Aid_logo.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 131px) 100vw, 131px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-126\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2018\/04\/NUI_Galway_BrandMark_A-300x92.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"41\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2018\/04\/NUI_Galway_BrandMark_A-300x92.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2018\/04\/NUI_Galway_BrandMark_A-768x236.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2018\/04\/NUI_Galway_BrandMark_A-1024x315.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2018\/04\/NUI_Galway_BrandMark_A-624x192.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2018\/04\/NUI_Galway_BrandMark_A.jpg 1181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 134px) 100vw, 134px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-125\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2018\/04\/ccafs-ciat_logo-300x56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2018\/04\/ccafs-ciat_logo-300x56.png 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2018\/04\/ccafs-ciat_logo-624x117.png 624w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2018\/04\/ccafs-ciat_logo.png 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decolius Kalumo is an MSc. Climate Change Agriculture Food Security (MSc CCAFS) student at the National University of Ireland Galway . Decolius&#8217;s research focuses on the Landscape of Climate Smart&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/about-me\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}