Ian Robinson obituary
Ian Robinson, who has died aged 72, helped to improve the lives of millions of people across the world with his work on monitoring crops and livestock in developing countries and conflict zones. In particular he developed a scoring system for rapidly assessing the quality and quantity of crops and farm animals, which could then be used to alert UN experts and aid organisations to impending food crises.
Apart from the creation of such pioneering systems, Ian's life as an agricultural consultant included work on finding tactical solutions to food security in the wartorn Horn of Africa, helping with the development of agricultural colleges and training centres in the Philippines and Syria, and improving food production in post-conflict territories such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, Rwanda and Somaliland.
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