Mélanie Canet
Project Manager - North Africa at Association Fert- Claim this Profile
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French Native or bilingual proficiency
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English Full professional proficiency
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Spanish Professional working proficiency
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German Limited working proficiency
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Lao Elementary proficiency
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Experience
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Agri-agence Fert
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France
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Farming
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1 - 100 Employee
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Project Manager - North Africa
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Jul 2015 - Present
- Maroc - Accompagnement d'organisations de producteurs agricoles (principalement coopératives apicoles et de producteurs de pommes) dans leur viabilité et le développement de services pour leurs membres (conseil agricole, fourniture d'intrants, stockage, ...) - Tunisie - Accompagnement d'organisations de producteurs agricoles (principalement groupements agricoles d'éleveurs et coopératives) dans leur viabilité et le développement de services pour leurs membres (conseil agricole, schéma de sélection et services de génétique, transformation, ...) - Coordination des actions en Afrique du Nord (Maroc, Algérie, Tunisie et Egypte) - Animation de la réflexion stratégique de Fert dans cette zone et contribution aux chantiers de capitalisation Show less
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
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Germany
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International Trade and Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Advisor on rural development
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May 2012 - Dec 2014
Advisor at the provincial agriculture and forestry office of Luang Namtha province - Train the provincial office in the value chain analysis methodology - Support the development of provincial strategies for the rubber and the subsistence vegetables sectors - Support the design of capacity building programmes and farmers' associations support - Support the economic assessment of several cash-crops - Develop concepts to collaborate with the private sector in the rubber value chain, through PPP contracts Show less
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FAO
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Italy
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Non-profit Organizations
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700 & Above Employee
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International Consultant
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Sep 2010 - Nov 2011
Supporting the policy assistance unit, at the sub-regional office for North-Africa - Food and Agriculture Policy Decisions Monitoring: • Contribution to the sustainable implementation of the new policy monitoring system in the five countries of North Africa • Capitalization on the pilot experience in Tunisia • Data utilization - Design and execution of capacity building events related to negotiation capacities in the sub-region and contribution to the ongoing survey on the capacity development strategies Show less
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Agence Française de Développement
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France
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Banking
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700 & Above Employee
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Project Manager
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Apr 2008 - Apr 2010
- Identification, monitoring/supervision and evaluation of projects in the portfolio: • Strengthening the national union of cotton producers (capacity building, efficient monitoring and evaluation system, etc.), supporting the establishment and development of family farming and financial management advisory services • Strengthening breeders’ organizations project • Community-based rural development projects (community-based capacity building for prioritization and funding management, etc.) • Experimental project for land tenure security • Monitoring French GEF projects - Monitoring and contribution to the government’s policy dialogue in these sectors - Participation in collaboration and coordination efforts with local donors, projects’ owners and contractors Show less
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CIRAD
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France
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Research Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Research Manager
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May 2007 - Dec 2007
DURAS Project “Innovations and farmers’ knowledge to improve forest ecosystems management in Western and Central Africa” – Action-research program, in collaboration with IRAG (Guinean Institute of Agronomic Research) “Management of the agroforestry systems based on coffee trees – Analysis of practices and innovations” - Study of farmers’ innovations at three different scales of the agrarian system (village area, farm and plot level) with regard to agricultural practices as well as social, organizational, decisional and land security levels - Participatory meetings held with farmers (analysis of technical evolutions, leading of focus groups, reporting back of results, etc.) - Synthesis of the principal results in order to design a guide of good agricultural practices, to be popularized at the end of the project Show less
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Research Manager
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Apr 2006 - Oct 2006
Supporting the “Manabí Coffee Project” for farmers’ capacity building (Belgian Development Agency and SIPAE joint programme) “What future do coffee farmers’ have under increasing land scarcity?” - Agricultural expertise of a coffee farming area in the Ecuadorian coast, in a context of land pressure: technical-economic analysis of the farming systems and agrarian system, recommendations to support the exploitations - Support to the producers’ organization CEPROCAFE in its objectives of improving coffee yield and quality, finding a market niche, promoting farms’ diversification and organizing and strengthening the sector Show less
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Education
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Montpellier SupAgro
Master's degree, Agronomy, specialization in agricultural and rural development -
Centre national d'Etudes agronomiques des Régions chaudes
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ENSHAP, Post-graduate college of horticulture and landscaping
Master's degree, Agronomy, Horticulture and Landscaping