Berthé Brahima Email & Phone Number

San Pedro, Bas-Sassandra, Côte d'Ivoire

• Key Responsibilities:
• Lead the technical assistance work in a landscape in Côte d'Ivoire, especially in training trainers and farmers on climate smart, regenerative, and sustainable agriculture production practices, supporting training.
• Facilitate community participation and mobilization for natural resource governance, technical project implementation; organize and facilitate community level training events on benefits of collective actions.
• Prepare for organizational strengthening and business skills training sessions with participating communities, and contribute to landscape project planning, strategic development and review activities and produce.
• Develop district level partners capacity and participate to their training on governance and production practices including productivity and climate modules;
• Represent Rainforest Alliance in meetings with local government and non-government institutions, conferences, and promotional events;

Côte d’Ivoire

• Key Responsibilities
• Mobilize and engage relevant stakeholders including principal beneficiaries (cooperative of farmers) in the restoration of targeted Classified Forests (CF) and their surrounding buffer zones
• Co- develop with farmers and deploy profitable Agroforestry techniques to sustain and increase cocoa production, diversify income sources, and increase farmers’ income in and around the CF in a diversification approach
• Improve the livelihoods of communities around the targeted Classified Forests for a sustainable conservation/management of Classified Forests (and agricultural production in balance with the environment) including the.
• Farmer’s capacity building on Agroforestry and cocoa rehabilitation
• Operating and monitoring environmental technical committeesKey Achievements

Côte d’Ivoire

• Key Responsibilities
• Conceive, organize, and coordinate on the field the project activities in link with the project team
• Assure the reporting of project Near by the project team of FCIAD and some partnerships (proceedings, reports, workshop organization)
• Coordinate and monitoring set up of demonstration plots
• Capacity Building of IP beneficiaries organized in IP
• Train farmers and partners on 3 innovative cocoa rehabilitation technologies (Biological Control of Termite Damage in Cocoa Production, Biological charcoal (Biochar) to restore cocoa soil fertility, underground.

Côte d’Ivoire

• Key Responsibilities
• Coordinate the implementation of technological innovation of platform: 16 Centres of Cocoa culture Development (CCD) and 52 Cocoa Village Centers (CVC).
• Implement and follow up of agricultural tests (clonal evaluation).
• Training and transfer of knowledge to local staff.
• Produce scientific reports and activities report.
• Develop of communication tools for improving socio economics research strategic impact and some policies in different area of the project.

Côte d’Ivoire

• Key Responsibilities
• Implement and conduct experimentations on cocoa trees regeneration technologies on farm.
• Implement technological innovation platforms: Cocoa Development Centers (CDC) and Cocoa Village Centers (CVC)
• Coordinate implementation of cocoa demonstration plot on rehabilitation technologies (Grafting technologies, Replantation and Good Agricultural Practices…)
• Supervise, monitor, and support managers of Cocoa Development Center (data collection, respect of the good agricultural practices…)
• Capacity building of managers of Cocoa Development Center (CDC) and partners on cocoa rehabilitation technologies (Training, Workshops…)

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Food And Agribusiness

Diplôme D'Ingénieur, Agribusiness/Agricultural Business Operations