Agronomy

Lesly JOSEPH is an agronomist and statistician specialized in biostatistics. Lesly was born in the community of Limonade in Haiti, and obtained his diploma in Agronomy from the Université d'État d'Haïti in 2014. He then completed a masters in tropical agriculture with Atlantic International University in Hawaii in 2015. Finally, he received a full scholarship to complete a second masters in Belgium in 2019. He finished this second masters in agro-environmental sciences at the University of Ghent,  one of the oldest and most prestigious research universities in continental Europe, and one regularly ranked among the top 100 universities in the world. He returned to Haiti in 2019 and soon joined the team of UNIF as a professor of methodology and research. In 2021 he was named the new Dean of Agronomy at UNIF. In 2022, he co-published alongside researchers from the University of Arkansas the article titled, “A broken market: can increased access to broken rice decrease food insecurity in Haiti?” in the academic journal  Food Security.