Keith Shepherd

Keith Shepherd is a principal soil scientist at ICRAF with over 30 years’ research experience in tropical land management. He leads ICRAF’s research unit on land health and the Centre’s Soil-Plant Spectral Diagnostics Laboratory. His research focuses on decision analytics and the development and application of land health surveillance and response – an evidence-based approach for monitoring and assessing land and soil health and targeting interventions for land improvement. He holds a PhD in agricultural botany from University of Reading, UK.