Anke Weisheit has a Master in Agriculture (M Agr.) Agricultural Science and Resource Management in the Tropics and Subtropics from the University of Bonn, Germany and is Task member for the establishment of the Institute of Indigenous Knowledge (IIK) at the Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) in western Uganda. She consults the University on Programm/Project development, implementation and evaluation as wells as on strategic planning issues. Besides, Anke is an active Agriculture and Development consultant associated with both local and international Businesses and Development companies and Organizations. She is also the principal investigator for the Uganda Section of the Project on Mainstreaming Integrated Natural Resources Management in Uganda funded by the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA). Among others, she has previously worked as National Project Coordinator for the Mbarara University of Science and Technology and Lake Victoria Research Initiative (VicRes), as a Technical Advisor for the Get out of Poverty (GOP) Initiative, as a Project Coordinator for the International Center for Research in Agro Forestry (ICRAF), as Project Consultant for MAKO Herbalist Association and the National Agricultural Research Organisation of Uganda. Besides, she had short-term consultancy assignments with the Pan African Agribusiness and Agro-Industry Consortium (PanAAC).