Caroline Ledant

It. +39 3319865906

Be. +32 488142658

Citizenship: Belgian

Date of birth: 21 September 1986

Professional experience

From December 2016
IPES-Food
Home based
July-September 2016
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN – FAO (Rome)
November 2014-March 2015
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN – FAO (Rome) / Member of the support group on the Common Food Policy for the EU. Research tasks.
Consultant at FAO, Livelihoods, health and income team of the Plant Production and Protection Division(AGPML)
Support to FAO's program on urban and peri-urban agriculture with:
-The World Bank Knowledge Product development on Urban Agriculture and food systems. To conduct literature review and compile components to be included in the publication.
-The Climate-Smart Agriculture publication / Climate-Smart food systems chapter. To conduct extensive stocktaking and literature review of existing relevant publications, projects and initiatives.
Volunteer at FAO, AGPML,“Food for the cities project”
As part of the Livelihoods, health and income team of the Plant Production and Protection Division (AGPML), supported FAO's program on urban and peri-urban agriculture, and the Food for the Cities initiative and related project.
Key tasks included:
  • Collecting data on urban and peri-urban agriculture practices, policies, ongoing projects- in selected regions (Food for the Cities project);
  • Supporting the organization of the International Expert Consultation Meeting (City-Region Food Systems Assessment / Food for the cities project) through preparing minutes of key sessions, contributing of the drafting of the final report;
  • Preparing synthesis reports on topics such as FAO's database on the performances of horticultural cultivar – Hortivar [EN], Conservation agriculture [EN]

October 2011-May 2014
Heyvaert center, Municipality of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Brussels (Belgium) / Municipal Project Manager - Sustainable food systems in urban area’s
3 years of professional experience in the coordination, monitoring and evaluation of projects and actions. The projects included:
-Awareness raising targeting a group of socially disadvantaged women on different food-related issues
-Implementation of a community garden aiming to enhance social inclusion,
-Capacity building of local residents to communicate with external stakeholders (public authorities, other organizations, etc.)
Main responsibilities included:
  • Projects and local events management , monitoring and assessment
  • Co-leading a team of eight people in the day-to-day management of a local sport and social center.
  • Networking, collaborations management
  • Promoting inclusive and gender sensitive participation of all relevant stakeholders (residents, local businesses, public authorities, organizations, etc.)
  • Nurturing and widening an informal network of key partners and professionals working on food security in urban areas and gender issues.
  • Co-ordinating the organization and facilitation of meetings

June 2010-December 2010
NGO Latitud Sur,
NGO Racimos de Ungurahui,
Iquitos (Peru) / Project Assistant – Developing sustainable agroforestry practices in a community in the Peruvian Amazon
Assisted the project manager in day-to-day tasks related to a project aiming to provide technical assistance to farmers to improve the sustainability of farming practices, including through a gender approach.
Main tasks included: organizing a workshop, carrying out a study and preparing a report on the sustainability of livelihoods and the use of natural resources.

Education

University of Louvain, Belgium

June2010 / Master thesis: Strategies of the Lebanese agricultural sector stakeholders [individual farmers, farmer’s association, and public authorities] in response to the globalization context.
Two months of field research in Lebanon, South Province.
2010-2008 / Master in Development and Population Studies (Distinction)
Trainings on methodological tools such as the gender approach, the multi-disciplinary approach, project management, as well as research methodology. Focus on the Arabic countries
2008-2005 / Bachelor of Modern languages and literatures: Spanish and Arabic

Professional trainings

April 2017
FAO E-learning Center
February 2017
FAO E-learning Center
Sept. – Oct. 2016
WageningenX
May 2013
Université des Femmes /

Qualitative Methods for Assessing the Impact of Development Programmes on Food Security

Developing a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Plan for Food Security and Agriculture Programmes
Food Security and Sustainability: Systems thinking and environmental sustainability (MOOC)
Women and ecology
March 2012
Bruxelles formation / Project management
November 2011-March 2012
Rencontre des Continents ASBL (Brussels) / Sustainable food systems

Computer skills

MS Access

MS Excel

MS Outlook

MS PowerPoint

MS Word

Web content: Typo 3

International experiences

Rome, Italy3 yearsFamily reason

Peru, Iquitos 6 monthsInternship on agroforestry practices

Lebanon, Beirut / Saïda2 monthsThesis field research

Palestinian Occupied Territories1.5 monthsPolitical situation discovery and analysis

Iran 1monthCountry discovery

The Philippines1 monthSocial situation discovery

Morocco1 monthArabic-study grant