Dr Natacha Motisi is a Visiting Scientist, under CIRAD (Centre International en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement) in Plant Epidemiology under the Data Management, Modelling and Geo-Information (DMMG) Unit. She is working on the Desira Project, 'Transforming Robusta coffee agroforestry to improve resilience of smallholders to adapt and mitigate climate change in Uganda.

She holds a PhD in Epidemiology from Agrocampus Rennes, France.

Prior to joining icipe, Natacha worked as a coffee crop epidemiologist at IRAD (Institut de Recherche Agricole pour le Développement) in Cameroon (2011-2014), and at CATIE (Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza) in Costa Rica (2018-2021).

Her experience is in epidemiology of coffee arabica diseases, and mechanistic modelling of the dynamics of the diseases at the tree, plot, and territorial scales. Her objective is to define the levers of action, particularly agro-ecological practices, making it possible to reduce the coffee diseases durably.