Emilie Lacour

Eco Innovation periodically employs Emilie Lacour, an Agro-Economist Engineer specialised in agro-economy and agricultural development with a focus on farm systems and their evolution, social and economic sciences and sustainable development.

As a full member of the network since 2005, she helps select and respond to calls for proposals from the EU and helps to create partnerships for on-going projects. She mainly participated in writing the EMBED, Grassroots and Grass projects, all submitted under the EU's FP6 calls for proposals.

She is currently undertaking volunteer work in Senegal with the french association afvp (http://www.afvp.org/ ) for the PADER, a programme aimed at supporting farm cooperatives in 4 areas of the country.