Dr. Harun Cicek

Dr. Harun Cicek completed his undergraduate degree on environmental science at University of Ottawa. He worked at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada on Beneficial Agricultural Practices project as research assistant and conducted research on reducing the agricultural effluent to streams using control structures, and tested the efficacy of these control structures using remote sensing. He completed his M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the University of Manitoba. His research was on cover crops, crop-livestock integration, reduced tillage and sustainable intensification of organic cropping systems in the northern latitudes. In 2013, he moved to Jordan to work for ICARDA, his focus was on conservation agriculture and crop-livestock integrated systems under dry areas. He is currently at the Konya Food and Agriculture University (http://www.gidatarim.edu.tr/en) as an Assistant Professor, Cropping Systems Agronomy.