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The Center for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods is comitted to transforming lives of small landholder farm families through participatory development. Along with our enterprising partners in Uganda and the dedication of our management team, CSRL continues to transform lives in many ways. From giving farmers greater opportunity to expand their crop and animal production, to saving lives through nutrition education, CSRL addresses the broad array of challenges to achieve sustainable rural livelihoods.
 
Dr. Mark Westgate
Dr. Mark Westgate
is Director and professor of crop production and physiology in the Agronomy Department. He is recognized internationally as an authority on corn and soybean reproductive development. He is working with farmers to increase yield and nutritional quality.
Dr. Robert E. Mazur
is Associate Director for socio-economics. His primary focus is on innovation and diversification in rural livelihood strategies, and linkages among livelihood activities, food security, and health. Dr. Mazur was Director of CSRL from 2003 to 2008.
Dr. Gail Nonnecke
is Associate Director for Education. She is a University Professor in the Department of Horticulture and Coordinator for the Global Resource Systems major at ISU. Dr. Nonnecke initiated and manages CSRL's Student Service Learning/School Garden Program.
Dr. Max Rothschild
is Associate Director for Livestock Production and Health. He is widely recognized as a world leader in pig molecular genetics. He manages numerous livestock projects to develop sustainable livestock production systems for rural households and schools .
Dr. Dorothy Masinde
is Associate Director for Uganda Field Operations. She is a rural development and sustainable agriculture practitioner based in Kampala. Dr. Masinde serves as CSRL liaison with in-country NGO's, school administrators, and university collaborators.
Isabel Reinert, MS.,MBA.
is the CSRL Program Coordinator. She is responsible for program accounting and budget management as well as day to day activities of the CSRL office at Iowa State University.