Personal Information:

Professor of Entomology

• Address: Faculty of Agriculture, Sana’a University.

Summary:

Expert in Integrated Pest Management. Also, working for more than 18 Years in Beekeeping. Agricultural Advisor / Certified Consultant for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) from the American University in Cairo, Egypt, 2013. Provide consultancy for National and International Organization especially in Agricultural sector.

Education:

• 1. Ph.D. in Agriculture (Entomology): Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana, India. Feb. 2003.
  2. M.Sc. in Agriculture (Entomology), University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore (UAS), India. Dec. 1998.
  3. B.Sc. in Agriculture (Pesticides), Cairo University, Egypt. May 1990.

Experience:

• Administration experience:

1. Director of Honeybee Unit, Faculty of Agriculture – Sana’a University (Nov. 2006 to Oct. 2015).
2. President of the Cooperative League for Yemeni Beekeepers (CLYP) (2014 to date).
3. President of the Union Consultants of Small and Medium Enterprises (UCSMEs) (Dec. 2013 to date).
4. President of the Yemeni Biological Society (Nov. 2007 to date).
5. Chairman of Applied Science Circle, Sana’a Community College, Sana’a, Yemen (April 2005 – January 2006).
6. Secretary of the committee responsible for preparation of the national strategy of Beekeeping in Yemen, 2005.
7. A member of thegoverningbodyofthe Academic Staff Syndicate of Sana’a and Amran Universities, April 2009 – to June 2014.
8. Secretary of Landscaping Council at Sana’a University (December 2003 – December 2005).
9. Secretary of Plant Protection Department Council. Faculty of Agriculture, Sana’a University. (July 2003 – February 2004).
10. Organizing member in many comities of several Scientific Conferences, Symposiums and Workshops.
11. Charmin of the Committee responsible for preparing the curiculums of Plant Protection in the Ministry of Technical Education and Vocational Training 2004-2005.

• Consultancy Work:

1. Beekeeping and honey expert in Yemen Economic Stabilization and Success (YESS) Program. (Funded by USAID), July 2018 – July 2019.
2. Chairman of the Consultant Team of “Strengthening Rural Resilience Project” at Sustainable Development Foundation (SDF)-Hajjah, Yemen (Funded by UNDP), 2017 (Additional beneficiaries at Bani-qais and Abbs, Hajjah), 2018.
3. Chairman of the Consultant Team of “Strengthening Rural Resilience Project” at Sustainable Development Foundation (SDF)-Hajjah, Yemen (Funded by UNDP), 2017.
4. Consultant with WATHBAH Project at SMAPs-Yemen (Funded by WORLD BANK), 2013.
5. Member of Agricultural Experts Council of SPARK-Yemen, 2017.
6. National Consultant for set up business mentoring to SMEs in six MENA countries (Egypt, Libya, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia and Yemen), funded by DFID, 2012.
7. National Consultant with MERCY CORP -Yemen (Apex Consultancy) for Sesame Value Chain and Market Analysis in Yemen, 2014.
8. National Consultant with USAID-RGP for designing the Single Window “One Stop Shop” – Ministry of Agriculture & Irrigation, 2010.
9. National Consultant with OXFAM -Yemen (Apex Consultancy) for Value Chain Analysis for honey and beekeeping sector in Hajjah and Al Hudaidah, Yemen, 2014.
10. National Consultant with USAID -Yemen (Apex Consultancy) for establishing an entity for beekeeping in Yemen, 2014.
11. National Consultant with CLP-Yemen (Apex Consulting) for Honey Market Assessment in Yemen, 2013.
12. National Consultant with EOF for implementation the issue of Yemeni Honey Standards, 2011.
13. National Consultant with EOF for implementation the Yemeni honey commerce logo and promotion, 2012.
14. Secretary of the Commission forming the National Strategy for Beekeeping in Yemen, 2005.

Conferences and Workshops:

• 1. The workshop on “Finding a proposal to organize the Yemeni beekeeping. Sana’a, July 15, 2017.
  2. Workshop on “Obstacles to exporting Yemeni honey across borders and ways to overcome them,” Sanaa, July 16, 2017.
  3. Workshop on “Export of Yemeni bees to the Gulf States: Prospects and constraints”. Sana’a, Yemen, 18 May, 2016.
  4. Workshop on “Beekeeper and honey trader: prospects of cooperation and joint action”. Sana’a, Yemen, 19 May, 2016.
  5. The 7^th International Arab Apicultural Conference. Tantah, Egypt, 15-21 Dec. 2014.
  6. The first meeting for discussing the draft of the Yemeni Standard Specification for honey. Sana’a, 22 Dec. 2012.

7. First Coordinating Workshop between the Agriculture Cooperatives, Private Sector and Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (MAI), Sana’a, 21 June 2011.
8. The Second Workshop of the National Strategy for Agriculture, Sana’a, 23-24 Jan. 2011.

• 1. Partnership workshop between sectors of agricultural development, Sana’a, 4-5 August 2010 (Chairman of the Organizing Committee).
  2. International Symposium of the Joint Saudi-Yemeni integration for optimum utilization of bees’ wealth in the two countries, Tahreem, 8-9 May 2010.
  3. The 6th International Arab Apicultural Conference. Abhaa, Saudi Arabia, 17-19 March 2009.
  4. National Symposium for beekeeping in the Republic of Yemen, Sana’a, 24-25 March 2008.
  5. International Conference for Fulbright Scholars, April, 19-23, 2006. Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
  6. National Workshop for finding a proposed law for Beekeeping in Yemen. Sayoun 14 January 2004.
  7. National Workshop for Finding A proposed standardizations for Yemeni honey. June 22-23, 2004, Taiz, Yemen.
  8. National Workshop for planning a Strategy for Beekeeping in Yemen. Sayoun 13 July 2005.

Research and scientific papers:

1. Nizar HADDAD, Moath AL-GHARAIBEH, Abdullah NASHER, Eman ANASWAH, Yaseen ALAMMARI and Lisa HORTH. 2017. Molecular detection of pathogens in unhealthy colonies of Apis mellifera jemenitica. Apidologie. DOI: 1007/s13592-017-0530-6.
2. Nizar Jamal Haddad, Adjlane Noureddine, Banan Al-Shagour, Wahida Loucif-Ayad, Mogbel A. A. El-Niweiri, Eman Anaswah, Wafaa Abu Hammour, Dany El-Obeid, Albaba Imad, Mohamed A. Shebl, Abdulhusien Sehen Almaleky, Abdullah Nasher, Nagara Walid, Mohamed Fouad Bergigui, Orlando Ya˜nez and Joachim R. de Miranda. 2017. Distribution and variability of deformed wing virus of honeybees (Apis mellifera) in the Middle East and North Africa. Insect Science, 24 (1):103-113.
3. Haddad, Nizar; Moath Al-Gharaibeh; Abdullah Nasher; Eman Anaswa; Yaseen Alammari; Lisa Horth. 2017. Bees producing the most valuable honey in the world are threatened: genetic detection of Nosema and several viruses in unhealthy colonies of the honeybee Apis mellifera jementica. Insect Sci.Insect Science (2015) 00, 1–11, DOI 10.1111/1744-7917.12277.
4. Abdullah N. M. M., Jamelah M. H. Alhamdany and Rehab T. R. Alazawi. 2013. Insecticidal effect of local Bacillus thuringiensis isolates collected from some coastal governorates of Yemen. University of Aden Journal of Natural and Applied. Science. (In Press).
5. Ali M. Idris, N.M. Abdullah, J.K. Brown. 2012. Leaf curl diseases of two solanaceous species in Southwest Arabia are caused by a monopartite begomovirus evolutionarily most closely related to a species from the Nile Basin and unique suite of betasatellites. Virus Research 169(1):296-300.
6. Ba-Angood, S.A., Al-Samawi, A.A., Abdullah, N.M.M., Althobaibi, M.H., Hashim, M., Alasali, A.M., Rawah, H. 2010. The partnership between different sectors of the agricultural development (View of the Agricultural Educational Institutions). Partnership workshop between sectors of agricultural development, Sana’a, 4-5 August 2010.
7. N.M.M. and Jon Martin. 2009. New Record for Three Additional Whiteflies Species from Yemen. ANEPPNEL 49: 6. Available Online at: http://www.asplantprotection.org/PDF/ANEPPN/NEPPNEL49Ar.pdf
8. Fuad A. T. Alhammady and Abdullah N. M. M. Effect of imported and locally made comb foundation sheets on the Yemeni strain of honeybee, Apis mellifera jemenitica L. Mansoura University Journal of Agriculture Sciences. 37 (5): 251-256.
9. AbdullahM.M. 2008. Integrated Pest Management in the Organic Farming. The 17^th Technical Conference of the Arabian Union for Agricultural Engineers Sana’a, 28 June – 1 July 2008.
10. Abdullah N.M.M. Life history of the Potato Psyllid Bactericera cockerelli (Homoptera: Psyllidae) in Controlled Environment Agriculture in Arizona. African Journal of Agricultural Research.3 (1): 60-67. Full text Available Online at: http://www.academicjournals.org/AJAR/PDF/pdf%202008/Jan/ Abdullah. Pdf.
11. Alshami A.A., Abdullah M.M.M., Almezgagi M. and Alyaremi A. 2008. Evaluation for some non-chemical methods for limiting the infection by Tomato Leaf Curl Virus transmitted by Bemesia tabaci (Gennadius). Arab J. Pl. Prot, 26 (1): (In Press) (In Arabic). Full text Available Online at: http://www.asplantprotection.org/PDF/AJPP/26-1_2008/45-49.pdf
12. Abdullah N. M.M.. 2008. Role of insects in the agricultural ecosystem. First national symposium of Agriculture and Environment. Sana’a, 18-19 May 2008.
13. Abdullah N. M.M.. 2008. National campaigns for cotton pest control at Tehama region. National conference for agricultural chemicals. Sana’a, 27-29 January, 2008.
14. Abdullah, N.M.M. Effects of pesticides on the biological balance in the environment and their Management. 4th Conference of Enveronoment and Natural Resorces. Taiz, Yemen 14 –16 May 2007.
15. Abdullah N.M.M, Abdusalaam I. Taybe and Abdullah M. Ghaleb^. Effect of sowing dates of cotton on population density of whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Genn.) (Aleurodidae: Homoptera) and cotton jassid, Jacobiasca lybica (Berg.) (Cicadellidae: Homoptera) at Tehama region. Yemeni Journal of Biological Sciences. 3: 93-104 (In Arabic).
16. N.M.M. and Jon Martin. 2007. New Record for Four Additional Whiteflies Species from Yemen. Arab J. Pl. Prot. 25 (1): 33-34. Full text Available Online at: http://www.asplantprotection.org/PDF/AJPP/25-1_2007/33-34.pdf.
17. Abdullah, N.M.M., Joginder Singh, B.S. Sohal. 2006. Behavioral hormoligosis in oviposition preference of Bemisia tabaci on cotton. Pesticides Bioch. Physiol. 84: 10 – 16. Full text Available Online at sciencedirect.com.
18. Abdullah, N.M.M. and Singh, J. 2006. Bio-residual Effect of Some Insecticides on Development of Whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) on Cotton. Journal of King Saud University)., 8 (2): 113-126. Full text Available Online at: http://digital.library.ksu.edu.sa/V42M339R2600.pdf.
19. Al-haifi M. A., Khan, M. Z., Abdullah N.M.M., Ghole, S. 2006. Effect of Dimethoate Residues on Soil Micro-arthropods Population in the Valley of Zendan,Yemen. J. Appl. Sci. Environ. Mgt. 10 (2): 37- 41. Full text Available Online at http://www.bioline.org.br/ja.
20. Abdullah N. M.M, Ali M. Idris, and Judith K. Brown. 2006. Association of a tomato-infecting begomovirus from Yemen with two strains of tomato leaf curl Sudan virus from Saharan Africa. 9th Arab Congress of Plant Protection, Damascus, Syria, 19-23 November, 2006.
21. Abdullah N. M.M, Jon Martin, and Judith K. Brown. 2006. Recent status of witefly species in Yemen with special reference to Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) populations collected from different locations. 9th Arab Congress of Plant Protection, Damascus, Syria, 19-23 November, 2006.
22. Abdullah, N.M.M. Status of Insect fauna recorded in Yemen and Future strategy. National Symposium on “Status of Plant Protection in Yemen and Future Strategy” Sana’a, Yemen. 9-11 May 2005.
23. Abdullah, N.M.M. Indiscriminate use of Insecticides and their impacts on agricultural ecosystem”. 3rd Conference of Environment and Natural Resources. Taiz, Yemen 3 -5, May 2005.
24. Abdullah, N.M.M. Genetically modified plants and their impacts on agricultural ecosystem. National Symposium on “Genetically Modified Foods” Sana’a, Yemen. 20-21 March 2005.
25. Abdullah, N.M.M. and Singh, J. 2005. Hormoligosis of insecticidal sprays in fecundity of whitefly. J. Insec. Sci. 18(1): 60-64.
26. Abdullah, N.M.M. Singh, J and Mahal M.S. 2005. Hormoligosis, a cause behind insect resurgence. J. Insec. Sci. 18(2): 1-8. Full text Available Online at: http://direct.bl.uk/bld/PlaceOrder.do?UIN=193014080&ETOC=RN&from=searchengine.
27. Aladimi T. Y. Alhamadi, F. Abdullah, N.M.M. Non-traditional crops as economical alternative to Qat cultivation. Sana’a University Journal of Science and Technology (SUJST). 2 (1): A (1-61), B (1-39). (In Arabic).
28. Abdullah, N.M.M. Justifications for issuing a low to organize beekeeping and identifying standardizations for Yemeni honey. National Workshop for Finding A proposed standardizations for Yemeni honey. June 22-23, 2004, Taiz, Yemen.
29. Abdullah, N.M.M., Al- Hammadi, F.A. and Al- Adimi, Taha Yasin. Proposal for forming General Directorate for beekeeping in Agriculture and Irrigation Ministry. National Workshop for finding a proposed law for Beekeeping in Yemen. 14 January 2004.
30. Al-Hammadi, F. A. and Abdullah, N.M.M. Problems existing due to absence of low for organizing beekeeping in Yemen. (Proposed Low). National Workshop for finding a proposed law for Beekeeping in Yemen. 14 January 2004.
31. Abdullah, N.M.M. and Singh, J. 2004. Biology of Whitefly, Bemesia tabaci (Genn.) on cotton Under Punjab conditions. Pest Management and Economic Zoology. 12 (1): 1-6.
32. Abdullah, N.M.M. and Singh, J. 2004. Changes in the behavior of whitefly, Bemisia tabaci(Gennadius) in response to use of insecticides on cotton (Gossypium hirsutum).Yemeni Journal of sciences 6 (1): 9 – 24.
33. Abdullah, N.M.M. and Singh, J. 2004. Effect of Insecticides on longevity of whitefly, Bemesia tabaci (Genn.) on cotton. Univ. Aden J Natural Appl. Sci. 8 (2): 261-268.
34. Abdullah, N.M.M. Risk assessment of genetically modified organisms used in IPM. (Yemeni View). National Workshop on “Risk Assessment and Management of Genetically Modified Organisms”. Sana’a, Yemen. December.13 – 2004.
35. Abdullah, N.M.M., Singh, J and Sohal, B.S. 2002. Changing in the biochemical components of cotton leaves as a response to use of insecticides. Compendium of the 71st meeting of Indian Society of Biochemistry. 14-16 November, Ludhiana, India.
36. Abdullah N.M.M. and Gowda G., 2000. Evaluation of some important plant products for antitermite properties. J. Ecobiol. 12 (1): 3-8.
37. Abdullah, N.M.M., Gowda, G. and Shreramulu R.K. 1999. Effect of non-edible oils and cakes on rhizosphere microflora of groundnut. Environment and Ecology.17 (2): 411-414.