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Kim Bothi

Biography

Kim Bothi was raised in Southern Alberta, Canada on a dryland grain farm with her parents and twin brother.  After graduating from high school, Kim completed a diploma of Environmental Technology from Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta majoring in water quality management.  She continued her education with a degree in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering from McGill University in Montreal researching contaminated soil and groundwater remediation.  After working as a Project Manager for an environmental consulting firm in Calgary for two years, Kim went on to complete a Master of Science studying renewable energy technologies in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.  Her travels throughout South America and India before and during graduate research helped further her interest in global development issues and led her to pursue a career in the field. Kim is currently completing doctoral research on collaborations in water supply management in the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell.  She recently returned from field work studying the West Africa Water Initiative in Mali with support from the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development.

Organization

Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD) was founded “to strengthen Cornell's ability to make significant contributions to sustainable rural and agricultural development in poor countries of the developing world”.  CIIFAD mobilizes Cornell’s academic resources and partners with African, Asian and Latin American research and development organizations to generate knowledge that helps rural people meet their food and income needs, protect the environment and improve health and nutrition. In September 2004, CIIFAD joined a group of international collaborators working on an interdisciplinary development program called the West Africa Water Initiative (WAWI). The WAWI partnership conducts a wide range of development projects with the aim of improving rural and peri-urban livelihoods through the provision of safe water, hygiene, sanitation and sustainable water resource management in Ghana, Mali and Niger.  As an implementing partner in the WAWI consortium, CIIFAD provides facilitation in applied problem-focused agriculture and natural resource management issues throughout the project zones. CIIFAD also strives to build and develop professional capacities and strengthen partnerships with collaborating institutions, regarding these as complementary foci to WAWI’s principal goals of increasing access to safe water and enhancing ecological, financial and social sustainability of water through participatory, problem-focused research and development.  For more information on CIIFAD and WAWI please visit www.ciifad.cornell.edu and www.wawipartnership.net.