Armando Maugini [SEP] occupation
Armando Maugini
Armando Maugini (May 1, 1889, Messina – 1975, Florence) was an Italian agronomist and tropicalist. Maugini shaped and directed the activities of the "Istituto agricolo coloniale italiano", presently the Istituto agronomico per l'oltremare in Florence for forty years.
After several years of agronomic field trials and extension in Libya and laboratory research in Florence, he was appointed director of the "Istituto agricolo coloniale italiano" (Italian Agricultural Colonial Institute) in 1924. He worked there through the era of Italian colonial expansion
the institute today.
After the Second World War, and the repatriation of Italian colonists from Africa, the IAO collaborated with the Italian trust administration in Somalia, by supplying technical skills to the newly formed Somali federal government. It also assisted Italian farmers migrating to Latin America, who were benefited by the same services, such as training, technical assistance, investments planning, etc., created for the development of the Italian colonies. Such work was completed with the reshaping of the Institute endowments, under directors Armando Maugini,