jonathan rusirevi

Results-driven Agricultural Advisor with over 20 years of experience in sustainable agriculture, value chain development, management, and climate-smart practices. Proven expertise in delivering training on good agricultural practices (GAP), facilitating stakeholder linkages 

Jonathan has 20 years in sustainable agricultural development actively engaging communities in making sense of the issues that affect their lives, setting goals for improvement and responding to their problems and needs through empowerment and active participation for socio-economic change. Track record of agricultural markets development, sustainability, regenerative agriculture, sustainable value chain development for climate resilience and demonstrated expertise and contribution to strengthening the agricultural sectors, identifying and developing value chain drivers and enhancing smallholder producers’ participation in the agricultural economy. Implemented a number of interventions under (FAO, Red Cross, Practical Action, SOS, EU, Dutch Royal Embassy funded, DFID etc Provided on-going support and facilitated stakeholder linkages with overarching learning pathways and public private partnerships to enable farmers to access financial services, as well as improve household income from agricultural markets and enterprises. Further, he is experienced in Emergency programming and resilience building including supporting M&E and capacity building of grassroot and community-led agricultural projects

MSc Agricultural production chain management, BSc Honours Agriculture