Mamadou Goïta
Agroecology
Governance & Policy
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Mamadou Goïta is a member of the IPES-Food panel, the executive director of the Institute for Research and Promotion of Alternatives in Development (IRPAD), and a development socio-economist and specialist in education and training systems. He works closely with farmers’ organizations in Africa and other continents.
He has been executive secretary of ROPPA (West Africa Farmers and Producers Organization). Prior to his position at IRPAD, he worked in West Africa with UNICEF, UNDP, OXFAM-Belgium and ACORD. He is a founding member of COPAGEN (the Coalition to Protect African Genetic Heritage) and a founding and honorary member of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA). He has also worked as academic support for the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) Civil Society Mechanism Working Group on ‘smallholders’ access to markets’ (2016) and was director of CODESRIA’s Institute of Governance (2014). In 2013, he served as a project team member of the CFS’s High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition.
He currently sits on a numerous international boards – including Afrique Verte International, More & Better network, Global Green Grants, Enda Pronat, IED Africa – and is a member of several African networks (Pan-African Network in the Defence of Migrants’ Rights (PANiDMR), African Development Bank’s CSOs coalition, AIMES, POSCAO). He teaches at different universities and has an integrated agroecological farm in Mali.
Mali
English, French
Food Security
Climate & Biodiversity
Corporate Power
