Faculty Achievement Recognition
The 2007 Honorees
Faculty Achievement Recognition
The 2007 Honorees
P. K. Nair
Distinguished Professor
School of Forest Resources and Conservation
Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
1987
Degrees earned:
Dr.Sc., Agriculture, Goettingen University, Germany
Ph.D., M.S., and B.S., Agronomy, India
Professor P. K. Nair is the recipient of the 2006 Humboldt Prize, which requires nomination and rigorous examination of credentials by scientists from various countries. To win, a scholar must demonstrate a lifetime of achievement of great international significance in his or her field of study. Nair is internationally renowned as the man who established the scientific basis for the discipline of agroforestry, which directly impacts the lives and livelihoods of about 800 million people worldwide. Nair has traveled to more than 100 countries, conducting field research and courses in more than 25 African, Asian, Latin American, and Caribbean nations. In March 2001, Nair established the UF/IFAS Center for Subtropical Agroforestry with a nearly $4 million competitive USDA grant and has garnered nearly $1 million in additional grants since then. He has authored or edited 12 books, more than 140 journal articles, and 35 book chapters, including agroforestry chapters in six encyclopedias. Nair’s single-author, college-level textbook, An Introduction to Agroforestry (Kluwer), has been translated into Spanish, Japanese, and Thai.
