Pierre Rondot
| Organization | Centre International de Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement (CIRAD) |
|---|---|
| Organization type | Research Institution |
| Country | France |
With an agricultural engineer background and a PhD in Agricultural Economics, Pierre Rondot has more than 35 years of experience in rural development and rural producer organizations capacity building at local, national, regional and international level. He has worked in West Africa, South East Asia and in Middle East and North African countries, with (i) NGOs such as the Centre International de Développement et de Recherche (CIDR-France), OXFAM etc., (ii) Research Institutions such as le Centre International de Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD) and (iii) International organizations such as the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN/ESCAP) and the World Bank.
Pierre Rondot has extensive research and development field experience with specific emphasis in: (i) agricultural services development, including support to rural producer organizations to access input and output markets; (ii) market (export and domestic) development through quality improvements; (iii) community-organizations and rural producer organizations’ capacity-building (technical, organizational and institutional), (iv) promotion of negotiations processes between rural producer organizations and public and private institutions; (iv) public/private institutional reforms.
Pierre Rondot has retired from the Word Bank Agriculture and Rural Development Department in March 2012 and is now working, on a part time basis, with CIRAD, based in Montpellier, France.
This member participated in the following Forums
Forum Forum: "ICT and producer organizations" November, 2012
Question 1 (opens 12 Nov.)
Dear Anadaraja
When I open the lik I did not see any video!
Producer companies are great institutions allowing farmers to really engage in business development and compete with other private shareholding companies. Please can you share with all of us how ICT has help extending common services and benefit to all members in the producers companies (your point number 06). Thanks in advance
As you say ICTs are useful to support transparency and accoutability. Your post explain how ICT can help accountability and transparency with the Government and public institutions. Do you have also examples how ICT has helped farmer organizations to be more efficient and better serve their members??
We now have several examples of farmers and/or farmer organizations using ICT and finding it useful. In these examples do we know if ICT has helped the farmer organizations to better serve their members and to be more efficient? Does ICT help farmers to directly access market and knowledge information without having to go through its organization??
As a consumer you have a very important role for producer organizations as farmers should produce the food as demanded by consumers. Therefore ICT can be an extremely powerful tool to help consumers and organized agricultural producers talk to each other. The consumer should inform producers about the quality they want to have and the producers should produce what is demanded by the consumers. Very often the dialogue with consumers is the monopole of the retailors (big and small). ICT can help improve transparency of the dialogue between consumers, retailors and producers.
Can you explain what ypou call a techno peasant???
It is great to see a firm delivering services to producers. ITC has certainly a key role in improving the efficency and the quality of the services delivered as the firm will better know the demand. Are the producers servecd by the company AKRSP (India) members or shareholders of the company??
From my experience farmers may form interest group to access new technology. These groups are exclusive in the sens that farmers not interested in the new technology will not join and, very often once the technology has been delivered, the group will stop as he will have no more raison d'etre. It is therefore very rare to see interest groups formed for technology transfert purposes transform in formal groups or cooperatives.
What also exist is existing farmer organizations may deliver services to members, including technology transfert, but this one out of many other activities of the organization.