has over 30 years’ experience in development co-operation, policy advisory research and capacity building in southern research institutes. He lived for many years in Africa where he worked for United Nation Programme for Development (UNDP) in Mauritania; Médecins Sans Frontières in Kenya; Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) in Ghana and ICARDA in Egypt. He is the co-administrator since 2010 of the online agricultural news platform PAEPARD (Platform for African European Partnership in Agricultural Research for Development) funded by the European Commission. In this capacity, he has been extensively blogging on agricultural issues in Africa and manages an online community of 11,300 members.