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Name: Yvonne Vasquez (Yvonne Vasquez)
Organization:
Pronatec
Expertise:
farmers & production, farmer entrepreneurship, farmer organization, certification
Countries of interest:
Latin America, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Peru, Panama, Europe
Biography:
Having lived and worked in Central America for seven years together with cooperatives I now work as head of cocoa for Pronatec Switzerland. We source organic and Fairtrade cocoa from Latin America.
Name: Ingrid Fromm (ifromm)
Organization:
Bern University of Applied Sciences
Expertise:
farmer entrepreneurship, farmer income, chains & relations, transparency, chain governance
Countries of interest:
Africa, Ghana, Latin America
Biography:
I'm a researcher at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences in Switzerland. I've been conducting research on cocoa value chains and issues affecting farmers and their incomes. I recently concluded a study in Ghana on sustainable production...
Name: Beatrice Moulianitaki (Beatrice)
Organization:
Solidaridad
Expertise:
farmers & production, farmers & labourers, farmer entrepreneurship, access to finance, access to services & inputs
Name: Jean DJAYA (scosa-ci)
Organization:
SCOSA-CI
Expertise:
farmers & production, farmer entrepreneurship, farmer organization, productivity & quality, access to markets
Countries of interest:
Africa, Cote d'Ivoire
Biography:
Manager of SCOSA-CI , an organization owned and managed by Farmers based in Côte D'Ivoire for sustainable Cocoa production and delivery. www.scosa-ci.com
Name: Fuad Abubakar (Fuad)
Organization:
Ghana Cocoa Board
Expertise:
farmer entrepreneurship, farmer organization, productivity & quality, gender & livelihoods, chains & relations
Countries of interest:
Ghana
Name: Jeroen Kruft (Jeroen Kruft)
Organization:
Ananda Chocolate / Amigos International
Expertise:
farmer entrepreneurship, farmer organization, access to markets, green production, business development services
Countries of interest:
Tanzania, Indonesia, India, Latin America, Ecuador, Peru, Europe, Netherlands
Biography:
Jeroen Kruft (Arnhem, 1969) lived in the Netherlands, Tanzania, Jamaica and Indonesia before obtaining a bachelor’s degree in Physics at Macalester College, St. Paul, USA. After graduation, he moved to Brooklyn, New York, where he worked as a musician, teacher, and environmentalist. Jeroen recorded...
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Name: Dorothy Olokodana (Dorothy Olokodana)
Organization:
Cocoa biodiversity
Expertise:
farmers & production, farmers & labourers, farmer entrepreneurship, farmer organization, productivity & quality
Countries of interest:
Africa, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Liberia, DR Congo, Sierra Leone, Togo, Benin, Tanzania, Other, Asia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, India, Philippines, Singapore, China, Other, Latin America, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Peru, Panama, Venezuela, Bolivia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname, Grenada, Other, Europe, Netherlands, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Switserland, Belgium, Austria, Other, North America, Canada, United States, n/a
Biography:
Food Technologist and cocoa value chain expert. Specializes in building a value chain in the organic agriculture sector.
Name: Kees van 't Klooster (Kees van 't Klooster)
Organization:
Alterra, Wageningen UR
Expertise:
farmer entrepreneurship, access to land, capacity building, transparency
Countries of interest:
Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Liberia, DR Congo, Sierra Leone, Togo, Benin, Tanzania, Kenya, Other
Biography:
As Project Director Africa at Alterra, Wageningen UR, Kees van 't Klooster is developing public private partnerships in Africa making a.o. sustainable cocoa production possible
Name: Jeroen Kroezen (Jeroen Kroezen)
Organization:
Solidaridad
Expertise:
farmer entrepreneurship, farmer organization, access to markets, chains & relations, certification
Countries of interest:
Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe

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