Baptiste MARQUANT

Experience

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  CIRAD

  May 2010 - Dec 2010

  Intern

  - R&D on agriculture and livestock farming synergies- Project Management: support to project management and Antsirabe SELMET CIRAD team

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  CIRAD

  Feb 2011 - Aug 2011

  Intern

  Forest, Agronomic and Socio-economic assessment of Natural Assisted Regeneration in Plateau Batéké forests (Makala Project - Module 3)

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  CIRAD

  Apr 2012 - Oct 2012

  Intern

  - Forest inventory in agro-forestry plots- Biomass stocks estimates- Socio-economic survey- Organizational sociology of firewood needs

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  AFD - Agence Française de Développement

  Dec 2012 - Nov 2014

  Forest/Environment/Agriculture and private sector Projects Manager

  - Technical, administrative and financial project implementation monitoring“Projet d’Appui à la Gestion Durable des Forêts” (2009-2015)Forest law: technical assistance to forestry code review and stakeholder consultation (administrations, private sector, civil society)- Projects identifying and devisingCongo’s VPA FLEGT Support Project (2016-2018)“Projet Paysage Forestier Nord Congo” prefeasibility studyConsultation for forest/environment/agricultural projects strategic priorities in the “Contrat de Développement et de Désendettement (2015-2019) au Congo” framework- Facilitator of the Technical and Financial Forest & Environment partners group in Congo Show less

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  FORET RESSOURCES MANAGEMENT (FRM)

  Mar 2015 - Feb 2019

  Tropical Forests Ecosystems Engineer - Study Officer

  - Forest ManagementForest inventories, resources analysis, cartography, setting management and logging parameters according to companies, drafting management documentsOperating for numerous companies, on more than 10 forest concessions in Central Africa- Forest governance, FLEGT (VPA and EUTR) process and certificationDefining legality criteria and legal matrix under legislation in forceCompanies legality and traceability assessment according to selected level of requirements (EUTR, certification of legality or sustainable management)Technical assistance to European importers in the EUTR frameworkImplementing studies to identify, map, manage and monitor High Conservation Values (HCV – Principle 9 FSC FMU)- LoggingCompanies’ performances diagnosis, technical assistance for logging modalities improvement and optimisation- Project managementMid-term and final assessment of projects financed by international donorsDrafting terms of reference, calls for tenders and bids to calls for tendersR&D of new remote sensing tools to control management and logging documents implementation in the field Show less

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  Independent

  Aug 2019 - now

  Forest Consultant