xxxii Contributors graduate at the University of Brasнlia, Brazil, and participated in the Manag- ing Global Government Programme, an initiative of the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), implemented by the German Development Institute (DIE), in 2013. Mamounata Sandaogo Ouedraogo (Ministry of National Education and Liter- acy, Burkina Faso) is Inspector for Primary Education at the General Directorate of Basic Education, Ministry of National Education and Literacy in Burkina Faso. She was also Country Project Manager for the Vegetables Go to School Project, funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) from 2013–2017.
Bal Bdr Rai (Ministry of Agriculture & Forests, Bhutan) is National Coordinator of the School Agriculture Programme at the Department of Agriculture, Min- istry of Agriculture and Forests, Royal Government of Bhutan. He plans, sup- ports, and monitors the green vegetable and small livestock farming in schools as part of vocational education. He holds a BSc in Agriculture and an MA in public administration from the University of Canberra. He was also Country Project Manager for the Vegetables Go to School Project, funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) from 2013–2017. He has vast knowl- edge on the sustainable farming systems in hilly regions.
Nancy Redfeather (The Kohala Center) is an educator and an avid home gar- dener who has worked in Hawai‘i for the past 25 years to create school learn- ing garden programmes statewide. She helped found the state’s Farm to School Program and to bring together the collaborative partners in the State Farm to School Hui, and to create the Hawai‘i School Garden Teacher Training and Certification Program (Ku ‘Aina Pa) and the Hawai‘i School Garden Curriculum Map. She also founded the Hawai‘i Public Seed Initiative and the Hawai‘i Seed Growers Network. Today she gardens at the Kawanui Farm with her hu sband Gerry Herbert in Kona, Hawai‘i.
Nick Roskruge (Tahuri Whenua, the National Maori Horticultural Collective in New Zealand) (Te Atiawa and Ngati Tama Tribes) is the chairman of Tahuri Whenua, the National Maori Horticultural Collective in New Zealand, and an ethnobotanist involved in a wide range of projects aligned with traditional crops and establishing germplasm collections for the benefit of the indigenous commu- nities involved.
He is the author of several books on traditional Maori foods and Maori horticulture, and an associate professor at Massey University, lecturing and supervising in horticulture and Maori/Pacific agribusiness, and working in the Pacific in farmer development programmes sponsored by the NZ Foreign Affairs aid programme. David Ryckembusch (World Food Programme (WFP)) is the Chief of the Tech- nical Assistance, Digital Innovation, and Private Sector Partnership within the