Regional Markets

Contributors’ profiles
producers is heard in international fora. Marcela contributed to the design and implementation
of advocacy work for the international FT system by monitoring and analysing
international policy and practice related to agriculture, trade and related development
issues. Marcela developed and implemented strategic plans for Monitoring and
Evaluation of organisation’s activities and of Fairtrade impact in Africa and provided
the organisation with sound analysis of policies, legislation and international agreements.
After leaving Fairtrade, Marcela founded an organisation called “Open Streets”
advocating for the creation of public spaces that are inclusive and sustainable.
Aad van Tilburg
Associate professor in marketing | email: aad.vantilburg@wur.nl
Aad van Tilburg retired in 2010 from Wageningen University as
associate professor in marketing. His research interests included the
functioning and performance of market actors, markets, marketing
channels and value chains. He published in Agribusiness, Agricultural
Economics, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Business
Venturing, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of
African Economies , Journal on Chain and Network Science and Netherlands Journal
of Agricultural Science. He was co-editor of several books including Agricultural
Marketing and Consumer Behavior in a Changing World (1997, Kluwer Academic
Publishers), Agricultural Marketing in Tropical Africa (1999, Ashgate Publishing),
Agricultural Markets beyond Liberalization (2000, Kluwer Academic Publishers) and
Tropical Food Chains (2007, Wageningen Academic Publishers).
Fred Zaal
Senior advisor, Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) | email: f.zaal@kit.nl
Fred earned his PhD in Human Geography from the University of
Amsterdam, and has worked there and with other Universities on
studying the impact of agricultural markets and the rural economy in
general as well as climate change on small scale farming and livestock
keeping. He has extensive research experience in pastoralism and pastoral markets, natural
resource management and commodity trade in African drylands. Fred has been
working with KIT since 2010 on studies of the impact of investments and investment
funds on agribusiness development and subsequently on small scale farming, and is
generally working on impact studies of development strategies, programmes and projects
in the African agricultural sector.
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