Sound experience in formulation, monitoring, evaluation, and management of international projects;

- Good operational skills on: organic farming; conservation agriculture; design of sustainable cropping systems; on-farm research; agro-business planning in context of smallholder farming; capacity building to farmers’ organisations to improve their integration to market; fair-trade schemes; rural development regional programmes, with particular emphasis on the development of value chains based on typical high-quality products; food security and safety.

- Good command of monitoring and evaluation methodologies of the European Commission and the World Bank.

- Thematic sectors of experience: Agriculture, rural development, food security strategies, economics of food systems and value chain analysis; food safety and quality standards; research in developing countries. Capacity building to public bodies; NGOs, small-scale farming and development of local small food chains.