Rex Dufour has been with NCAT since 1994 and opened the National Center for Appropriate Technology’s (NCAT) Western Regional Office in Davis, California, in 2001. His current NCAT work focuses on learning from farmers, and writing about and training agriculture professionals on organic practices and certification, ecological pest and soil management, and farmscaping. Rex is registered with NRCS as an Organic Technical Service Provider (TSP) in California and Nevada. He is responsible for developing NCAT’s Ecological Pest Management Database. Rex worked nine years in Thailand and Laos with the Peace Corps, the United Nations, and the U.S. State Department. He helped develop integrated pest management plans for potatoes and small grains on U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service land leased to farmers. He is a former pest control advisor, and has been trained as a Certified Organic Crop Inspector by the International Organic Inspectors Association (IOIA). Rex can speak fluent Thai and Lao.
