Career in rural and agricultural research and development, with specific interest in rural agroenterprise development. Experience in research management and skills in project evaluation, training and R&D proposal formulation.
Expertise: Management and evaluation of multi-stakeholder agricultural research and development projects; facilitation of rural agroenterprise learning processes; market opportunity identification for and with rural producers; value chain analysis and design of interventions to increase competitiveness of small holder farmers and other rural actors; assessment of rural business service support needs; post production handling and processing of tropical crops and livestock products.
6 years with the Tropical Products Institute, London as a natural resource post production technology specialist
24 years with the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT, Colombia) as a cassava processing specialist (7 years), Cassava Program Leader (7 years), Rural Agroenterprise Development Project Manager (8 years), seconded to the Global Forum on Agricultural Research, Rome (2 years).
5 years with the Catholic Relief Services' Agriculture Program at HQ, Baltimore and in the Latin American and Caribbean Regional Office.
10 years self-employed consultant