Dr. Mohammed Al-Duais is a biologist, specializing in plant ecology and phytochemistry, with more than 17 years of experience in sustainability agroforestry and nature conservation. He has managed and involved in many projects and programs with agroforestry and food security components directly benefiting less privileged communities and smallholder farmers and their ecosystem, in Canada and the middle east respectively. Dr. Al-Duais has significant expertise in university teaching, project and NGO management, technical reporting and auditing, grant writing, products development, team supervision, and capacity building. 

Dr. Al-Duais received his Ph.D. in Biology from Friedrich Schiller University, Germany. He served as an Assistant Professor at Ibb University and as the director of the Foundation for Endangered Wildlife (FEW), both in Yemen and was the Natural Science Specialist in the UNESCO Doha Office. He was a Fulbright fellow at the Bioactive Botanical Research Laboratory of the University of Rhode Island in the USA for one year. He was also reinvited in the summer of 2013 to the Institute of Nutrition, Friedrich Schiller University, where he continued the phytochemical investigation on less-used vegetables from Yemen ethnobotany. Dr. Al-Duais is currently serving as a Research Associate at the McGill Institute for Global Food Security. He is involved in the interdisciplinary research on global food security, with a focus on developing novel methodologies, with a comprehensive ecosystem approach, to tackling the cycle of poverty and malnutrition. Out of his research activities, many concept notes were submitted to partners and he is the CEO and co-founder “Harvest for Health Inc.”, a McGill startup focused on solving the globally increasing hidden hunger and its consequences.

Relevant to Dr. Al-Duais involvement in food security he is a member of the food literacy committee, under Montreal West Island Community Resource Centre, he is also the CEO of Permaculture Sainte Anne de Bellevue (PSADB), which is a nonprofit organization established by the “Moving Towards Sustainability” Fund of Sainte Anne de Bellevue municipality. Under PSADB he managed many agroecology urban projects including Duff-Court Neighborhood Life Committee urban farm and two other urban gardens in Montreal island, Canada.