Suzanne Nederlof

Senior advisor
KIT Development Policy & Practice
Sustainable Economic Development
Phone: +31 (0)20568 8316
E-mail: S.Nederlof@kit.nl

Suzanne Nederlof holds an MSc in rural development sociology and a PhD in communication and innovation studies from Wageningen University, the Netherlands. For her PhD she conducted a meta-research within the Convergence of Sciences Project in Ghana and Benin to develop an alternative pathway for client-oriented research. She has expertise in learning alliances for rural innovation; resource-poor farmers’ livelihoods; natural resource management and platform thinking; farmer-based organizations and interdisciplinary research.

She has 15 years of experience in rural development through long-term assignments for the Food and Agriculture Organization in Ghana, the International Institute for Soil Fertility Management in Togo, and a research outreach station of Wageningen University in Burkina Faso. At IFDC-A she was responsible for exploring the landscape of farmer-based organizations in West Africa and suggesting the way forward.  In 2006 she joined the Royal Tropical Institute, where she focuses on agricultural services, producer organizations and rural innovation.

She has professional skills in action-research, participatory approaches, facilitation of multi-stakeholder processes and training. She has professional skills in action-research, participatory approaches, facilitation of multi-stakeholder processes and training.

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