Team Leaders

Name	Institute	Country	Role in CNG
Dr. Clare Stirling	CIMMYT-CCAFS	UK	Supervises link between this project and other CCAFS projects
Dr. Frank Brentrup	Yara International	Germany	Sharing expertise around fertilizers (including efficiency, nutrient losses, carbon footprint), and contributing to calculation of GHG emissions, N losses and trade-off analysis.
Dr. Hein ten Berge	Wageningen Research (WPR)	The Netherlands	Identifying and assessing nutrient management options at the field-cropping system level.
Dr. Patricio Grassini	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	USA	Involved in the yield gap analysis for legume crops in SSA countries, integration of biophysical and socio-economic factors to develop extrapolation domains, and protocols to estimate nutrient gaps.
Dr. Patrick Heffer	International Fertilizer Association (IFA)	France	Helps develop linkages and build partnerships between the research team and the fertilizer value chain in the target countries.
Dr. Sander Janssen	Wageningen Research (WENR, Alterra)	The Netherlands	Linking to other initiatives such as AgMIP & GODAN.
Prof. Dr Martin van Ittersum	Wageningen University (PPS)	The Netherlands	Project coordinator. Contributing to developing methods to estimate nutrient uptake and input gaps, legume yield gaps, climate smart nutrient nutrient management packages, trade-off analysis at farm level and technology extrapolation domains, actively contributing to the pathways to impact.