Key qualifications:

• Cycle project and programme management: Identification, formulation, monitoring, evaluation (according to CAD/OECD criteria) and capitalization of actions, projects and programmes in development cooperation (EU, AFD, IADB, CIDA/ACDI) / logical framework and result oriented management.
• Food security and rural development in Latin America and South-East Asia, with focus on livelihood, poverty, sustainability, climate change, value chain development, farmers’ organisations, cooperatives, land management and tenure.
• Farming systems, value chains economics and related social issues.
• Support to civil society and producers’ organizations.
• Support to the implementation of operational and organizational arrangements for developing services to smallholders and small and medium food/rural enterprises.
• Institutional strengthening and organisational set-up for local actors mobilization (public-private, civil society organizations and local authorities partnerships) in the agricultural sector, aiming at pro-poor and smallholders-based agricultural development.
• Analysis of agricultural and environmental policies.
• Cross-cutting approaches: environment, gender, youth, inequality reduction, social inclusion, indigenous peoples rights, human rights based approaches.
• Training of professors, researchers and students (university level), as well as farmers and development agents.
• Development education and awareness raising.
• Alternative tourism.