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Publications, Lectures, and Knowledge Products authored/co-authored by Michelle

  • Market Research Report: Tunisia Food Supply Chains and Rural Youth Retail Led the research and writing of Tunisia national value chain and retail analysis for strengthening rural supply chains for food products and enhanced entrepreneurship for rural youth retailers; used research to help local partner design testing and pilot plan, Dec. 2014 (document available upon request)

 

  • Technical Panel Presentation: Youth-Tailored Solutions for Financial and Nonfinancial Services in Post-Arab Spring MENA Region. Lessons learned in scaling up the work of the United Nations, represented International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) at UN Global South-South Solutions Expo, Nov. 2014 United Nations Global South-South Solutions Expo. (click ‘CANCEL’ when prompted for username and password)

 

  • Best Practices Article: Recognising the economic contribution of women isn’t feminism, it’s fact. Online media ‘how to’ on gender integration best practices, posted by The Guardian’s Global Development Professionals Network in Oct. 2014. The Guardian Economics of Gender

 

  • Strategy Brief: Gender strategy brief developed in September 2014 under contract with DAI Haiti AVANSE program (USAID Feed the Future – Haiti); based on research and collaboration across project components; e.g. contracts, budgets, technical, human resources, etc. (document available upon request)

 

  • Literature Review, Roadmap and Evaluation Tool: Food Sector Scan: A Roadmap for City Food Sector Innovation and Investment provides cities with guidance for developing a local foods investment strategy and selecting the best investment opportunities to create new jobs and strengthen local businesses while increasing a community’s access to healthy, local and sustainably grown foods. (Researcher, writer, working with cities across US; Published in July 2013.) Roadmap for Food Sector Innovation and Investment.

 

  • Best Practices Guidebook: Food Value Chains: Creating Shared Value to Enhance Marketing Success provides guidance and a road map for how innovations to food value chains that create wealth and equity among value chain participants. Report shows how values-based value chains are initiated and structured, how they function, and the benefits they provide to participants, for shared value and equitable economic growth.  (Co-led research with USDA, writer, working with 40+ leading value chain experts, June 2014. Values-Based Food Value Chains for Market Success  (Note: report takes time to load)

 

  • Learning Product/Research Report: Innovations in Local Food Enterprise: Fresh Ideas for a Just and Profitable Food System aggregates and translates learning generated over 3 years, across 30 grants in 16 states and DC piloting innovative market-based solutions to food insecurity and food value chain gaps and bottlenecks. Includes primary and secondary research on market based food enterprise models to increase healthy food access/affordability  for underserved consumers while growing regional economies for SMEs (led concept design, author, researcher, Dec. 2013) Innovations in Local Food Enterprise: Fresh Ideas for a Just and Profitable Food System

 

  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Article: Value Chain Development for Rural Poverty Reduction: A Reality Check and a Warning in an international journal of microfinance and business development (Enterprise Development and Microfinance Journal, March 2012) Asset-Based Value Chain Development Journal Article

 

  • Conference Speaker and Facilitator: Women in Agriculture Network Guest speaker and facilitator at Women in Agriculture annual retreat hosted by Penn State University, March 2013. Work included: technical training on: food systems and value chains, and facilitating peer-to-peer exchange between American and African female farmers http://agsci.psu.edu/wagn

 

  • Webinars: Designed and delivered webinars with up to 1,000 registrants per webinar nationwide. Market-Based Models for Increasing Access to Healthy Food: Defining What Works, and If You Build It Will They Come? Consumer Behavior Concepts for Effective Marketing of Healthy Food. Recordings available here:  Healthy Food Access Webinars 

 

  • Grant-making Guidelines & Congressional Reports: Created internal and external documentation for competitive, US Government-funded grant-making program for healthy food enterprises innovations.  Congressional reports written annually, submitted to the Secretary of the US Department of Agriculture (grantmaking, proposal review documents available upon request)

 

  • Recruitment and Staff Management Materials: Handbooks, Policies, Procedures, Flow Charts, Performance Appraisals, Staff Training, and Orientation Materials

 

  • Promotions and Recruitment Pieces: Brochures, Flyers, Fact sheets, Advertisements, Targeted Mass Mailings, and Press Releases

 

  • Published Interviews: Philadelphia Daily News, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Reading Eagle, Bethlehem Morning Call, Associated Press, Meadville Tribune and New Farm Magazine for technical expertise pertaining to farm marketing, e-commerce for farmers, women in agriculture, farming and development in Africa

 

  • Training booklets, Fact Sheets, Success Stories: Published by New Farm Magazine at Rodale Institute:

 

 

  • Training Workshops Delivered at annual events:  Chesapeake Association for Sustainable Agriculture- Future Harvest Farming for Profit and Stewardship Conference http://www.futureharvestcasa.org/ ; Northeast Organic Farm Association Winter Conference www.nofanj.org; Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) Farming for the Future www.pasafarming.org; and Mid-Atlantic Direct Marketing Conference

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  • Materials in English and French across various farm and food business topics:  creating and managing farm cooperatives, business plans, marketing and finance; for trainers, extension, farmers and small businesses; cross-cultural training and training Americans working in Africa

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