 Famara Massaly has been working as Associate Peace Corps Director since 1997. Before joining Peace Corps, he worked for the Senegalese company for fertilizers and chemicals), the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Senegalese Institute for Agricultural Research (1984 to 1997). As a technician at the fertilizer and chemicals company, he designed and implemented several demonstration plots on the use and efficiency of herbicides in rice production in three countries including Senegal, Mauritania and the Gambia.
As an agent of the Ministry of Agriculture, he took part in the monitoring an evaluation of rural development activities in the south of the country.
At the Senegalese Institute for Agricultural Research he was in charge of the seed production and research on quality improvement unit. As a seed specialist, he trained several technicians from different institutions. Also, he was a part-time teacher in the National school for Agricultural Technicians. He taught biometrics, the introduction to survey sampling, food transformation technologies and seed production, storage and conditioning for four years. Also, he advised over 15 students for their research and theses. As a researcher, he carried out several research studies and came up with extendable technologies on seed quality improvement. While working for the Research Institute, he took part in several consultancies in the area of seed technology and agricultural development. As a representative of the Research Institute for Research/Development linkage, he developed his interest in participatory methodologies for community development that he is currently deepening as, APCD.
He graduated in Agronomy at the Catholic University in Louvain La Neuve, Belgium in 1982. He obtained a Master of Science degree in Agronomy/Seed Technology with a minor In Statistics/Biometrics from Mississippi State University in 1991.
Famara was born in Ziguinchor. He is married and has four children: Sali, Mamadou , Abdoulaye and Idrissa.
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