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Summary of Curriculum Vitae:  Bruce Lankford
 
FULL NAME  Bruce Alistair Lankford
YEAR OF BIRTH  
NATIONALITY  British
PROFESSION Irrigation and Water Resources Specialist
POSITION IN FIRM Associate

RANGE OF EXPERIENCE
Bruce Lankford has over 20 years experience in irrigation and water resources management gained on projects throughout Africa, Asia, Central Asia and UK as a consultant and researcher for the World Bank, DFID, UNDP, British Council and international consulting firms.  He has specialised in river basin management, the impact of irrigation development on water resources and hydrological environment, and in the rehabilitation and improvement of irrigation systems via investigations, extension, participatory research, technical soil and crop studies and implementation of improvement programmes.  Dr Lankford also has experience of capacity-building and reviews of water resources policy at local and regional levels and is able to assess training needs, and develop and present water management courses.  Irrigation types that have been worked on include surface, sprinkler and drip irrigation under varying modes of farmer and commercial management.  He is author of a number of papers, book chapters and reports regarding water resources and irrigation management.

Assignments include:

  • Capacity building and training in Tanzania (1999-2003); Swaziland (1996); UK (various).

  • Water resources and river basin management projects in Tanzania (DFID), India (2002).

  • Irrigation management studies in Swaziland (1985-89), Malaysia (1992), Kyrgyzstan 2002, Tanzania (2001), Sudan (1993)

CAREER SUMMARY
1994 - date   Senior Lecturer Water Resources, University of East Anglia,  UK
1990 - 1994   Consultant, Hunting Technical Services Ltd, UK
1985 - 1989  Irrigation Agron., Commonwealth Dev. Corp., Swaziland
1983 - 1984   Assist. Soils Agron., Commonwealth Dev. Corp., Swaziland
 

EDUCATION
B.Sc (Hons) in Soil Science, University of Reading, 1985
M.Sc in Irrigation, University of Newcastle, 1992
Ph.D in Irrigation Management, University of Newcastle, 1998
Ph.D in Hydrology, University of Lancaster, 1976

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION
Member, British Hydrological Society
Member, Institute of Environmental Sciences
Associate Member, Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management
RECENT WORK

  • Irrigation transfer and water user associations in Kyrgyzstan (DFID)

  • Transfer of water rights in India (WB)

  • Research on productivity of agricultural water in Tanzania (CGIAR)

  • UK-based short course on irrigation policy in Ethiopia (WB)

  • Desk study on feasibility of irrigated wheat in Tanzania (Private)

  • Irrigation-based livelihoods studies in Tanzania (DFID)

  • Curriculum development for the Faculty of Agriculture, Catholic University of Mozambique.

  • Advisory services in Tanzania as Water Management Specialist for the UK-funded project (DFID).

  • Established a drip irrigation research unit at the Rural Technology Unit at the University of East Anglia.

  • Expert Opinion on an insurance claim for sugarcane (Barlow, Lyde and Gilbert)

  • Field research in Swaziland for a PhD degree (Private)

  • Short course on irrigation management in Swaziland (Swaziland Sugar Association).

  • Short course on water management for Local Agenda 21 (School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia).

 
COUNTRIES OF WORK United Kingdom, Swaziland, Pakistan, Malaysia, Sudan, Tanzania, Mozambique, India, Kyrgyzstan

LANGUAGES
English, knowledge of French, Spanish and Swahili

For more information contact associate@watres.com