Pieter A. Stam (1940) studied tropical agriculture in Deventer, the Netherlands. After his military service, he worked in Malaysia and Indonesia, studied entomology at the Universi...ver maisPieter A. Stam (1940) studied tropical agriculture in Deventer, the Netherlands. After his military service, he worked in Malaysia and Indonesia, studied entomology at the University of Louisiana, and completed a doctoral research program in 1977. He worked as an FAO specialist in Syria, Turkey, Pakistan, and the Sudan and was posted for several organizations in Cambodia, Somalia, Tanzania, and Angola. He currently lives with his wife, Gerda, in Kleverskerke, Zeeland, the Netherlands.ver menos