The Food Supply Chains and Geographical Indications Pool

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:

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

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

Marguerite PAUS

PhD. ETH Zurich

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.

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 (0)52 354 97 35, e-mail: marguerite.paus ( at ) agridea.ch