Andrea Shundi

Andrea Shundi (1934 to 2024) was an Albanian-American agronomist whose research and publications focused on forage systems for feeding livestock, on viticulture and viniculture, and on the history of Albanian agriculture. Born in Tirana, he studied agronomy at the Agricultural University of Tirana, graduating in 1956, worked as a researcher and chief agronomist, and from 1964 to 1975 directed the Livestock Feeds, Field Crops and Scientific Research Department in the Ministry of Agriculture of Albania. His 1974 monograph on forage crops in cold climates introduced the forage systems that integrate all the sources of livestock feed. From 1980 to 1992 he was professor and then dean of the Faculty of Agriculture of the Agricultural University of Tirana, where he introduced the Coefficient of Land Usage as a measure of the intensity of land use. He moved to the United States in 1998, became a citizen and wrote the first history of Albanian agriculture.