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I am a sustainable development expert, educated in local and rural development holding a bachelor in Agronomy, Masters in Agricultural management and Doctorate in Management and marketing in agriculture. I am a founder and the President of the Young Professionals in Local Development (YPLD). I am a Steering Committee member of YPARD (Young Professionals` Platform for Agricultural Research for Development), representing Europe and also a Steering Committee member of EFARD (European Forum for Agricultural Research for Development), represeting YPARD Europe.

Regional Climate and Environmental Specialist for East and Southern Africa with the International Fund for Agricultural Development. Current duties include:
• Provide technical support to ensure IFAD’s Regional portfolio is environmentally sustainable and climate-smart - assisting in project and country strategy design teams to ensure climate and environment risks and opportunities (such as climate adaptation) are fully integrated into early identification and design of projects and country strategies

I'm member of an NGO team working on Optimizing Use of non-conventional Water resources (recycled urban wastewater and rainwater) for Urban Agriculture as a solution to the challenge of growing water scarcity in Tunisia.

I am a microbiologist and I am interested in the use of organic fertilizers for crop improvement in agriculture. Currently my research focus in the exploitation of potential symbiotic mycorrhizal fungi on the adaptation of plants on saline soils

I am a PhD candidate at Wageningen University. I am conducting research on innovation network dynamics in agricultural netchains and the roles of innovation intermediaries. This research addresses the gap concerning how innovation networks evolve, providing some empirical evidence of different innovation trajectories of farmer groups, some of which have worked with different intervention approaches that seek to implement innovations in the potato netchain, in the highlands of Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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