Agridea

The Food Supply Chains and Geographical Indications Pool

The AGRIDEA Geographic Indications Pool exists since 2002. We are a team of men and women with international experience - in programmes in the field and as consultants, based in Switzerland. Currently, our staffs are:

Dr Dominique BARJOLLE (Team Leader and executive director of AGRIDEA Lausanne)

Ing. Agr. INA P-G, PhD Agricultural Economics INA P-G.

She has interest in the quality food products, strategies and policies. She has particular skills in the Transaction Cost Theory in the frame of food quality supply chain analysis. She has coordinated the Swiss part of several European research projects: PDO-PGI: Market, supply chains and institutions (1996-99). Dolphins (www.origin-food.org) (2000-03), Sus-Chain (2003-2005), SinerGI (2005-07), InoVagri (CH-project on innovations in agriculture) (2002-05) (http://www.inovagri.ch/www.inovagri.ch).  Expert for the UNIDO, Regions Council of the European Union, for the Leader Groups Observatory and, in collaboration with the French Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA) in charge of the Business Plan for the Greek Certification Body for agricultural products (AGROCERT). Member of the Federal Commission for PDO in Switzerland.

Tel. ++41 +21 619 44 04, fax ++41 +21 617 02 61, e-mail: dominique.barjolle ( at ) agridea.ch
 

 

Sophie REVIRON

PhD. INAPG

Sophie Reviron, head of the Observatory on agricultural and food chains for Agridea Lausanne, has particular interests in supply chain organization, and global performance of the food system, in relation with producers' and processors' marketing strategy. She has a long field work experience of dealing with cooperation and competition in strategic groups. She was involved in the  "Dolphins"  and in the "Siner-GI" European research projects. She was recently in mission in Mongolia and in Jamaica to help producers to build-up geographical indications systems.

Tel. ++41 +21 619 44 23, Fax ++41 +21 617 02 61, e-mail: sophie.reviron( at ) agridea.ch

 

 

Corinne COUILLEROT

Dipl. Geog.

General secretary of the Intercantonal Certification Organism, PDO/PGI certification leader in implementing the certification and control system for origin products supply chains in Switzerland

OIC Homepage www.oic-izs.ch

Tel. ++41  +21 601 53 75, Fax ++41 +21 601 53 79, e-mail: c.couillerot@oic-izs.ch

 

 

Peter DAMARY

MBA and Dipl. Ing. agr. ETHZ

Peter Damary, project manager “food supply chains” for AGRIDEA Lausanne, has extensive experience in development work, with a particular emphasis on Eastern-Europe.  He has expertise on supply chain aspects for products with sustainability and quality promises, as well as on rural development and agricultural biodiversity.  He has extensive experience in coordinating international workshops  and training courses. He has worked as an independent consultant for IFC (International Finance Corporation), the SDC (Swiss Development Cooperation) and the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) and the OECD, amongst others. He currently manages a project for the promotion of regional products of the French speaking cantons of Switzerland and works on a European research project studying food supply chains.

Tel. ++41 +21 619 44 55, Fax ++41 +21 617 02 61, e-mail: peter.damary ( at ) agridea.ch

 

 

Magali ESTEVE

Dipl. Political Sciences and anthropology

She has experience in local food production in South Eatsern Europe. Her main interests are institutionnal and public policy aspects for origin labelled products and, more generally, agriculture as well as anthropologic and social dimensions of know how and links to terroir. She is involved in the SINERGI research project and other scientific and technical collaborations with universities and local actors in the Balkans.

Tel. ++41 +21 619 44 61, Fax ++41 +21 617 02 61, e-mail: magali.esteve ( at ) agridea.ch

 

 

 

Anna PERRET

Master of Science ETH in Environmental Sciences

 

Anna Perret, specialized collaborator in geographical indications for AGRIDEA Lausanne, has experience in organizing international training courses and study tours and in welcoming international delegations interested in the Swiss policy on PDOs and PGIs. She has contributed to the European research project SINERGI with two north American case studies on Florida oranges and Bleuet du Lac-St-Jean (Quebec). She is especially interested in the environmental and consumer aspect of quality foods.

 

Tel. ++41 +21 619 44 61, Fax ++41 +21 617 02 61, e-mail: anna.perret ( at ) agridea.ch

 

 

 

Marguerite PAUS

Master of Science - Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon (AgroParisTech) / Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle / Université Paris 7, France

Master’s degree in Engineering - (Agro Montpellier, SupAgro), France.

Marguerite Paus is a PhD candidate in the Agri-food and Agri-environmental Economics Group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (http://www.iaw.agrl.ethz.ch). Her research focuses on collective agro-food supply chains and their potential to foster rural development. She draws upon case studies of Geographical Indications from Switzerland and Serbia. She was involved in the European project SUS-CHAIN (http://www.sus-chain.org) and is involved in SINER-GI. She was responsible of the Project « Value added of the agricultural industry in Lake Geneva’s area », which aimed at calculating the value added and the effects of regional agriculture on other sectors upstream and downstream of the production.

 Tel. +41 44 632 68 98, e-mail: marguerite.paus ( at ) agridea.ch or mpaus ( at ) ethz.ch