Key qualifications of Mr. Dr. habil. Guido HAAS
- A vastly experienced and highly regarded organic agriculture expert for over 20 years with extensive and profound up-to-date knowledge of organic farming practise, extension, training, research, certification/ inspection, and market.
- Has designed and conducted as a team
leader several donor funded and clearly objective-oriented organic farming
projects. Successfully brought together numerous experts, advisors and staff
from very different kinds of administrative bodies and to integrate them in the
work. As a result, is fully familiar with project cycle management as well as
the rules and procedures of numerous donor agencies, including the European
Commission.
- A highly experienced trainer who has originally developed and successfully conducted vocational training projects, seminars and lectures on organic agriculture and agro-environmental issues for more than 10 years always linking up to date applied scientific knowledge with extension and farming practise.
- Over the course of 14 years, has gained extensive experience and full working knowledge as a researcher within the Organic Pilot Farm Project in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) together with farmers, advisers and officials.
- Has developed several training and
teaching graduate courses at the University of Bonn on Principles and basics of
organic agriculture; Farm management concepts and strategies; Conversion
planning and optimizing organic farm operation; Agro-environmental impact of
farming on water, soil, climate change, biodiversity, rural landscape image.
- Serves as an Associated Professor in Organic Agriculture at the Institute of Organic Agriculture - University of Bonn: www.iol.uni-bonn.de
- Due to his highly regarded agriculture expertise he is serving as a scientific reviewer for several inter-national agricultural journals and conference proceedings as well as an evaluator of applications for donor agencies.
- Has earned a high reputation as an organic agriculture expert and scientist through an impressive publication list which comprises above 100 contributions from a wide spectrum of topics reaching from original refereed scientific contributions, policy and decision support reports to popular-science and practice-oriented articles in farming journals.
- That expertise reputation led to about 120 trainings, lectures and seminars on organic agriculture in front of varying audiences (decision makers, advisers, farmers, students, civil servants, shop assistants, interested public) (total list and free copies on request, see presentations for selected papers).
For more details please ask for my EU-Form-CV file listing former and current projects.
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