With more than 26 years of experience, Dr. Kakha Nadiradze has positioned himself in various management positions on Public, Private and Academic, Agribusiness Positions with the vision of promoting innovative and scientific development in Agricultural Extension and Rural Advisory Services with a strong development professional and scientific background in agricultural innovation and extension systems. Doctor of Agricultural Sciences focused in Agrobiodiversity Conservation from the Georgian Agricultural University (2006) and certified practitioner in Farm Data Management by FAO. He has a strong key competency in project management, agricultural value chains, training and facilitation of large scientific and research group participatory events. Since 1999 long-term assignments in development agricultural best practices, advocacy of Farmers Rights, Agricultural Cooperatives Development and works as an Independent Extension Consultant for different types of organization’s based on his international professional experiences on Climate Smart Agriculture, Biodiversity Conservation, Soils Degradation and Combating Desertification, Genetic and GMO Analysis, Supply chain and Value Chain, Agroecology and Food Systems. He provides professional advisory/consulting/extension/training services to Governments, Policy Makers, Primary producers, beginner Farmers and Agricultural Cooperatives around the world in the implementation of sustainable Food systems, comprehensive optimization of Agribusiness and evaluation of market opportunities. He actively cooperates with Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS) and founder of EUFRAS (2003). He is focused on promoting sustainable agriculture through soil conservation techniques, combating desertification and soils erosion, implementing regenerative agriculture methods, Gene Banking and in vitro and ex-situ conservation. Using in practice the Nature Based Solutions, NBS among others. He has published extensively in these areas, linking theory and practice to inform policy making on food, agriculture, the environment, circularity and human well-being. He is a founder of the World Farmers Market Coalition, WFMC (Rome Italy). He devoted his career to elevating the cooperative voice domestically and internationally. From advancing the Agricultural cooperatives identity, directing investments toward cooperative research, organizing and managing the rural communities’ knowledge for Circular and Green Economies, and measurably benefitting international cooperative development, Kakha’s leadership has touched and strengthened every part of the Rural Advisory and Extension ecosystem. Dr. Kakha Nadiradze is appointed to the position of Vice-Chair of CAC-FRAS, from 2019. He is elected as a Chair of the DesertNET International (Agropolis International). He is an editorial Board Member of Next Academic and Scientific Journals: Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), Grassroots Journal of Natural Resources, of The International Journal of Multidisciplinary Informative Research and Review (IJMIRR), Journal on Mountain Ecosystems & Resource Management and of the Journal - Entrepreneurship Research and Education Network of Central European Universities, ERENET. He is an author of a large number of analytical publications and has been a speaker of Local and International conferences and workshops. Involved in the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition Project (GODAN) in advocating for open data to bring about innovation to achieve food security (SDG2). Kakha Nadiradze is a Task Force Member of the Global Genome Biodiversity Network, GGBN, Smithsonian Institute (US). Dr. Nadiradze has provided effective expertise in different local and international projects in Biodiversity Conservation, Ecological Restoration, management and monitoring by providing science-based planning strategies to protect and enhance native species, habitats, and ecosystems at global, regional, and local scales. He has received different Scholarships from ESBB.
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Kakha Nadiradze
President
Association for Farmers Rights Defense, AFRD
Georgia