Lilian Beck, M.Sc.

Doctoral candidate (external)

Lilian is currently conducting her PhD project at the Institute for Social Sciences of Agriculture at the University of Hohenheim on "Inter-organizational learning activities to boost agroforestry dissemination" and is facilitating a transdisciplinary action research with small-scale farmers in Cambodia in collaboration with the World Agroforestry Center holding a scholarship by ATSAF Academy. As part of the PhD program, she provided courses for local extension actors in Farmer Field School Facilitation and collaborated in developing educational materials for FiBL. Prior to this, Lilian had been working as a research associate at University Kassel, coordinating the postdoc fellowship program by VW Stiftung, facilitating participatory video and radio production with different stakeholders in agroecological projects and assisted in developing a PhD program on transdisciplinary research with academia from Russia and Kazakhstan. She also worked as an International Field Specialist for the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Cambodia, facilitating participatory processes to identify climate-smart agricultural approaches, and coordinating Farmer Field School implementation. Lilian also conducted action research on alternative extension services for the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) as collaborative researcher and studied barriers to the adoption of agroecological approaches for her Master thesis with CIAT in Cambodia. Lastly, for her Bachelor's thesis, she undertook an Anthropological field study in an organic cotton cooperative in Kyrgyzstan.