Ibrahim Sahr Dugba is a Research Officer (Horticulturist Specialist) attached to the Kabala Horticultural Crops Research Center. He is an experienced agricultural Researcher with strong expertise in Horticultural crop Management, project writing, report and project management, networking, communication. He served as the project lead for Irish potato trials at the Kabala Horticultural Crops Research Center. Ibrahim received his Bachelor of Science with Honors in Crop Science from Njala University, Sierra Leone in 2012, Masters in Horticulture from Njala University in 2017 and also a PhD candidate in Horticulture at Russian State Agrarian University Moscow.
Ibrahim’s experience spans over 7 years and areas of interests include research on horticultural crops, integrated pest management , landscaping and vegetable production. He played key role in the development of project proposal, setting up experimental trials and data collection during the implementation of the BAFS project: Enhancing Horticultural Crops, Income Generation for Smallholder Farmers and Export in Sierra Leone-Boosting Agriculture and Food Security (BAFS) Project, EU-funded with value of 500,000 (Five hundred thousand Euro) for Kabala, Sierra Leone. As the project scientist and lead for Irish potatoes at KHCRC, he worked closely with key stakeholders such as policy makers, International and local NGOs, donors, research institutions and farmers.
Prior to joining SLARI as a Research Assistant (2015), Ibrahim was the Field Coordinator (2013-2014) for World Food Program during the Ebola period, served in the capacity of Farm Manager for Tropical Farm Sierra Leone limited (2014). where he managed, coordinated, monitored, and supervised various Farmers Based Organization (FBOs) and farmers on feed school project.