FAO Agricultural Innovation Systems and Knowledge sharing officer, working in the region of Europe and Central Asia.
•The areas, of focus: policy advice and practical approaches to provide better access to demand-driven knowledge, research and education, and services to smallholder farmers (men and women), including through information and communication technologies (ICTs); generation and adoption of sustainable technologies and frameworks (e.g. on biosafety) that would improve farmers’ livelihoods and provide benefits for environment and biodiversity.

- Adriana joined Bioversity working on the development of the global directory of germplasm collections and descriptors lists in 1989 playing an instrumental role leading the whole descriptors development process in Bioversity and beyond in partnership with other CG centres, FAO, crop networks and National Programs, leading the development of standards for more than 90 crops and playing a key role in the development of international standards such as the multicrop passport data (MCPD) jointly with FAO, CG centres and European partners.