Biography

Percy Briceño is a junior research assistant based in Lima, Peru. He is an agricultural engineer, a degree he obtained from the National University of Cajamarca. Percy has two years of experience at CIP. He worked as a consultant at CIP on the global project “Excellence in Agronomy,” focusing on the installation, assessment, and monitoring of experiments in conservation and organic agriculture with an emphasis on regenerative agriculture.

Percy is also very proud of his role in coordinating the installation of trials for the Project GIZ-PER: Agronomic Practices to Mitigate Climate Change in Potato and Cereal-Based Systems—Conservation Agriculture and Its Potential Scaling in the Northern Andes of Peru. His current work involves collecting data in various villages in the district of Chugay-La Libertad and creating a dataset to develop crop rotation maps. Additionally, he is involved in cleaning, processing, and creating a dataset for the second campaign of conservation and organic agriculture trials framed within regenerative agriculture, as well as performing statistical processing of relevant variables. Lastly, he is developing a regenerative agriculture manual on potato production with zero and minimal tillage using mulch in the Andes of the Sierra de La Libertad.