INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL MARKETING CONSULTANCY

Mike Burchell has more than 25 years of international agricultural marketing experience and since 1992 has worked on numerous agricultural marketing projects with international donor organisations.

KEY SKILLS

• Team Leadership and Project Management Experience
• Direct Agricultural Marketing and Food Supply Chain Development
• Wholesale/Retail Market Operational Management Design and Planning
• Market Information Systems
• Agricultural Training for Small Medium term Enterprises
• Marketing Rural Advisory Services
• International Food Quality Standards
• Food Quality Control Systems including inspection and certification procedures
• Packaging and Labelling of Agricultural Food Products
• Food Standards Harmonisation
• Import Substitution, Export Trade Promotion & Customs Procedures
• Marketing Extension Centre Development
• Business Development and Support to small/medium size enterprises
• Feasibility Studies & Business Planning

RELATED EXPERIENCE

• Team Leader/Project Manager experience
• Formulation, inception and implementation experience of preparing agriculture related projects within leading international aid agencies including EU, UN, DFID, Tacis, FAO, ADB, EAR, USAID, GTZ and EBRD, ACDI/VOCA.
• An excellent communicator with extensive skills to manage and restructure change in former state run economies and deal effectively with government institutions and commercial trade organisations
• Extensive experience in training, including training needs analysis, participatory training, seminars, workshops and study tours
• Computer literate; highly skilled in word processing, spreadsheets and databases
• Long term project experience - 5 years Kazakhstan, 2 years Belarus, 2 years Kosovo, 1 year Russian Federation, 1 year India
• Short term project experience - Germany, Poland, Hungary, Uzbekistan, Italy, USA, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Macedonia, Egypt, Jordan, Vietnam, South Africa, Kenya, Armenia, and South East Asia

INTERNATIONAL DONOR CLIENTS

International donor clients include: -

• European Union
• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• European Agency for Reconstruction
• Food Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)
• UK Department for International Development (DFID)
• Asian Development Bank
• GTZ
• United States Agency for International Development
• Helvetas - Swiss Association for International Cooperation
• TACIS (Technical Assistance for Commonwealth of Independent States)
• Indian National Dairy Development Board
• ACDI/VOCA

INTERNATIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

• Armenia
• Belarus
• China
• Eire
• Egypt
• Germany
• Hungary
• India
• Jordan
• Kazakhstan
• Italy
• Kenya
• Kosovo
• Kyrgyzstan
• Macedonia
• Poland
• Russian Federation
• South Africa
• Tajikistan
• UK
• USA
• Vietnam
• Uzbekistan