Jens Vesterager
Programme Manager
MSc., Ph.D.
Joined the Rockwool Foundation in 2008.
Direct:+45 46 55 80 68
Email: jens.vesterager@rockwool.com
Work areas:
Review project proposals submitted and ensure quality of projects funded within the programme areas.
Supervise and guide the implementation of funded projects including project planning, -implementation, -monitoring and -evaluation.
Supervise and build the capacity of local implementing partners (administration, project management, budgeting).
Strategic planning in general on organizational-, program-, and project level.
Development research including innovation, testing and documentation of best practices.
Administration in general
Key publications:
Vesterager J M, Nielsen N E, Høgh-Jensen H, (2008) Effect of cropping history and phosphorous source on yield and nitrogen fixation in sole and intercropped cowpea- maize systems. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, 80: 61-73
Vesterager J M, Nielsen N E, Høgh-Jensen H, (2007) Nitrogen budgets in crop sequences with or without phosphorus-fertilised cowpea in the maize-based cropping systems of semi-arid eastern Africa. African Journal of Agricultural Research 2: 261-268.
Adu-Gyamfi J J, Myaka, F A, Sakala W D, Odgaard R, Vesterager J M, Høgh-Jensen (2007) Biological nitrogen fixation and nitrogen and phosphorus budgets in farmer-managed intercrops of maize–pigeonpea in semi-arid southern and eastern Africa, Plant and Soil, 295: 127-136.
Høgh-Jensen H, Myaka F A, Sakala W D, Kamalongo D, Ngwira A, Vesterager J M, Odgaard R, Adu-Gyamfi J J (2007). Yields and qualities of pigeonpea varieties grown under smallholder farmers’ conditions in Eastern and Southern Africa. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 2: 269-278.
Vesterager J M, Nielsen N E, Høgh-Jensen H, (2006) Variation in Phosphorus Uptake and Use Efficiencies Between Pigeonpea Genotypes and Cowpea. Journal of Plant Nutrition, 29: 1869–1888.
Vesterager J M, Jensen J R and Nielsen N E (2000) The influence of tied-ridging on crop production and nutrient uptake in maize-cowpea cropping systems. In: P Singh, R Prasad and IPS Ahlawat (Eds) Proceedings of First International Agronomy Congress: Agronomy, Environment and Food Security for 21st Century. pp 135-149. New Delhi-110012, India, Indian Society of Agronomy, IARI.
Vesterager J M (2000). Improvements of maize based cropping systems in semi-arid Tanzania by the use of cowpea, water conservation and phosphorus application. Ph.D-thesis. Plant Nutrition and Soil Fertility Laboratory. Department of Agricultural Sciences, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Vesterager J M, Østerby S, Jensen E S, Schjoerring J K (1995). Symbiotic N2-fixation by the cover crop Pueraria phaseoloides as influenced by litter mineralization. Plant and Soil, 177: 1-10.
