Experience

COLEACP

• France
• Farming
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Science and Policy

  • Jan 2019 - Present

  Through its donor-funded technical assistance programmes, COLEACP supports sustainable production and trade for Africa-Caribbean-Pacific horticulture. Morag oversees research and innovation activities, as well as the COLEACP sustainability programme. She also provides technical advice, and engages with regulators and standard setters to lobby and advocate on behalf of the ACP horticulture sector.

• Policy Adviser with the PIP Programme

  • Sep 2009 - Jan 2019

  COLEACP-PIP is an EU-funded programme that assists the ACP horticultural export sector towards compliance with EU market and regulatory requirements. Role involves: providing policy advice on market access. Development of programme strategy. Heading the market access operational component. Capacity building for ACP public/private sector service providers. Facilitating public-private sector national stakeholder platforms.



COLEACP

• Supporting market access for ACP horticulture

  • 2002 - 2006

  PIP is an EU funded programme, managed by COLEACP, that helps horticultural producers and exporters in ACP countries maintain market access. This role involved developing the capacity of local service providers, as well as developing the strategy of the PIP in the area of private voluntary standards

• Food Safety in the ACP horticultural industry

  • Jul 2002 - Dec 2003

  Assisting horticultural export companies to establish food safety management systems compliant with EU market and regulatory requirements, with an emphasis on support to smallholder outgrowers



Freelance consultant for DFID

• Project Management - Advisor

  • 2000 - 2006

  Adviser to the DFID Crop Protection Programme (CPP): development and monitoring of the CPP strategy to achieve pro-poor outputs and impact. Leader of DFID-funded projects in sustainable farming and participatory research in Latin America Adviser to the DFID Crop Protection Programme (CPP): development and monitoring of the CPP strategy to achieve pro-poor outputs and impact. Leader of DFID-funded projects in sustainable farming and participatory research in Latin America



Freelance consultant

• Freelance consultant

  • 1995 - 2000

  Project Leader for DFID (UK) funded projects in participatory research and sustainable farming in Latin America Project Leader for DFID (UK) funded projects in participatory research and sustainable farming in Latin America



Natural Resources Institute

• Researcher in Integrated Pest Management

  • 1990 - 1995

  Leader of a DFID funded projects in Bolivia on: Sustainable farming in potato-based cropping systems; Participatory research with smallholder farmers in forest margins. In Uganda and Mali:, Weed management on smallholder farms, targeting socio-economic constraints. Short-term consultancies in Belize, Indonesia, Bolivia etc in various cropping systems. Leader of a DFID funded projects in Bolivia on: Sustainable farming in potato-based cropping systems; Participatory research with smallholder farmers in forest margins. In Uganda and Mali:, Weed management on smallholder farms, targeting socio-economic constraints. Short-term consultancies in Belize, Indonesia, Bolivia etc in various cropping systems.