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Gian L. Nicolay

Affiliation / Function

Activity areas

  • Promotion of organic and sustainable agriculture in Africa
  • Management and coaching of projects and programs
  • Institutional analysis
  • Design and development of technological and institutional solutions

Projects

StatusFiBLTitleStartEnd
completed CH Training on Innovation Platforms in Africa 12.07.2024 31.10.2024
completed CH Evaluation of the Ecological Organic Agriculture Initiative of the African Union (EOA-I Evaluation) 01.04.2022 21.10.2022
ongoing CH BIOREST - Support for the development of sustainable and resilient organic agriculture in the context of climate change in Tunisia (Biorest) 01.11.2021 31.10.2025
completed CH Promotion of the organic cotton and textile sub-sector in Burkina Faso through the CCBE (proBio CCBE) 01.05.2021 30.04.2023
completed DECH Green Innovation Centres for the Agriculture and Food Sector – Organic Working Group 01.02.2021 31.01.2023
ongoing CH Synergistic use and protection of natural resources for rural livelihoods through systematic integration of crops, shrubs and livestock in the Sahel (SustainSAHEL) 01.09.2020 01.09.2025
completed CH Knowledge Management Systems Backstopper for Main Phase of the establishment of Northern Africa Organic Knowledge Hub 01.07.2020 30.06.2022
completed CH Conducting of trainings for cotton farmers and selected key stakeholders in the implementation of organic cotton standards in Uzbek cotton production 16.04.2020 31.10.2021
completed CH Knowledge Centre for Organic Agriculture and Agroecology in Africa (KCOA) 01.04.2020 29.02.2024
completed CH Regional Knowledge Hub for Organic Agriculture in East Africa: a pilot on transforming farmer access to organic training materials and information through digitalization 01.03.2020 30.06.2022
completed CH Äthiopien Agrinatura VCA4D Baumwolle 08.01.2020 31.08.2020
completed CH Research Backstopper for Inception Phase of the Establishment of Northern Africa Organic Knowledge Hub 01.12.2019 30.04.2020
completed CH Knowledge transfer to ICS certified producer groups in selected African countries within the framework of GIZ SI training and employment (Africa ICS GIZ) 15.10.2019 31.12.2020
completed CH Mali Agrinatura VCA4D Fisch 01.07.2019 31.03.2020
completed DECH Green Innovation Centres for the Agriculture and Food Sector – Organic Working Group 01.01.2019 31.12.2020
completed CH Experience exchange and joint assessment to promote organic agriculture in Tunisia and Morocco 01.12.2017 31.12.2017
completed CH Application of organic bio-fertilizer technology to improve the sustainability of date palm production and cultivation (fertiledatepalm) 01.08.2016 31.07.2019
completed CHAT Organic Food Systems Africa (OFSA) 01.03.2016 28.02.2019
completed CH Organic Agriculture in Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi OAS) 05.10.2015 23.03.2017
completed CH Farmer-driven organic resource management to build soil fertility (ORM4Soil) 01.01.2015 31.12.2020
completed CH Yamsys, Biophysical and socio-economic drivers of sustainable soil use in yam cropping systems for improved food security in West Africa (Yamsys) 01.11.2014 30.11.2020
completed ATCH CONNEctingknowledge, scales and actors; An integrated framework for adaptive organic resource management targeting soil aggradation and agroecosystems’ resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa (ConneSSA) 01.08.2014 31.12.2017
completed CH Productivity and Profitability of Organic and Conventional Farming Systems 01.07.2013 31.12.2019
completed CH Syprobio-Improving farmers income and food security in diversified organic production systems in West-Africa (SYPROBIO) 01.01.2011 31.12.2015
completed CH Indian Organic Market Development Project IOMDP; Organic and Fair Trade cashew nuts from Ajanta Industries for the global market 01.09.2010 31.12.2013
completed CH Indian Organic Market Development Project IOMDP; Organic and Fair Trade cashew nuts from FTAK for the global market 01.07.2010 31.12.2013
completed CH Organic cotton- Experimental Learning Methodologies 01.01.2010 31.07.2010
completed CH African Organic Farming Training Manual 01.10.2009 31.12.2015

Training / professional career

  • Since October 2009 Africa coordinator at FiBL
  • 2007 - 2009 Founder and Director of Grisha Agro Design GmbH
  • 1993 - 2007 Helvetas manager (Head Office, Lesotho, Ethiopia)
  • 1990 - 1993 Project collaborator for FAO in Haiti and Burundi
  • 1985 - 1989 Social studies at the University of Zurich
  • 1984 - 1985 Scientific collaborator at Agridea (LBL)
  • 1984 Master of Science in Agronomy (ETH Zurich)

Publications

Publications in the Organic Eprints archive