ENGLISH (Guy FAURE)

Assignation

• Département Environnement et Société
• UMR Innovation
• Montpellier
• France

Functions

• Director of the research unit "Innovation", PhD in economy, post PhD degree

Discipline

• Economy and management

Address

• TA C-85 / 15
  73 rue Jean-François Breton
  34398 Montpellier Cedex 5

Tél/Fax/Mail

• Tel : +33 4 67 61 65 87
• Fax : +33 4 67 61 44 15
• Adresse mail : guy.faure@cirad.fr

Key qualifications

farming systems analisis

Strengthening of producers' organizations : organizational diagnosis, producers' insertion in supply chains

Participatory farm management : agricultural advisory methods, relationship adviser-producer, advisory services (governance, financing)

Innovation processes and innovation system

Participatory research and action-research

Research fields

My research works deal with decision-making processes at farm level and family level, the methods and tools to train and assist farmers in their decision making process, the transformation of advisory services (governance and funding), the coordination mechanisms between producers inside their producers organizations and with downstream stakeholders inside the value chain, and the analysis of and support to multistakeholders innovation processes. These researchs are based on in-depth case studies in Western Africa and Central America. These researchs are usually based on an action-research methodology.

Profesional experiences

• 12 years of experience in Africa participating in research activities and in support to development projects dealing with farming systems and farmers organizations, on-farm experiments, designing y set up of new extension methods for small farms in relation with farmers’ organizations, training for researchers, extension agents and farmers’ representatives. Good knowledge of the savannah areas (cereals, cotton, livestock farming). 
• 3 years in Central America to implement a research-development project and to advise the Extension Direction of the Ministry of Agriculture in Costa Rica (extension, farmers’ organizations).  Good knowledge of the humid zone in a diversified context (cereals, beans, yucca, pine-apple, fruits, flowers, livestock farming,…) 
• 12 years in France to manage research programs : team management, budget management, conception, implementation and monitoring of research and development projects dealing with natural resources management, extension and farm management, irrigated systems management.

Consultiing missions : specific studies, project design, project evaluation

Clients : World Bank, Interamerican Bank of Development, European Union, French Development Agency, Minister of Foreign Affairs

Geographical experiences

 

Western Africa, Central African, Madagascar, Central America

savanah zone de savanes, Humid tropic zone

 

Short term assignements :

Africa : Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Centralafrica, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Madagascar, Nigeria, Chad, Senegal

Latin America : Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru

Teaching activities

• participation and co-organisation of a specific module (master Acteurs du Développement Rural, IRC-CIRAD-IAMM, Montpellier, France) : participatory farm management and assistance to decision making process
• Students' works (agricultural scientist, master, PhD)

 

Liste CIRAD des publications de Guy FAURE