Youssouf Toure

YEP period 2022 - 2024, batch 26

YEP Role

As Young Expert, I work on the biodigester project, which installs digesters at cooperative level, household level and on our own biofertilizer production sites, providing these sites with a green source of energy. The Young Expert Programme position therefore directly contributes to:

• making clean cooking gas accessible to agricultural cooperative and rural households;
• making green energy accessible to agribusinesses; and,
• making biofertilizer more accessible and affordable to farmers.

Skills

• Farm management
• Agricultural research
• Crop nutrition with organic inputs
• Data collection and analysis (R, SPSS)
• Farmer training in organic farming
• Agricultural project design and management
• Smallholder empowerment
• GPS mapping and analysis using Google Earth.

Background

• Nationality: IVORIAN
• Education:
  • Master’s degree in Environmental Management, University of Ibadan
  • Master’s degree in Agricultural Engineer, Agronomy and Food Rransformation, INPHB – Institut National Polytechnique Felix Houphouët Boigny
  • Bachelor's degree in Food Industry, Voltaire Institute of Marcory

Experience before YEP

• Intern Research and Development, LONO, Côte d’Ivoire. My tasks included:
  • Daily check-up of 2 biodigesters for internal improvements on user friendliness.
  • Improvement of soil characteristics with compost and biofertilizer.
  • Testing compost doses, liquid and solid, on crop agronomic factors coming from digesters.
  • Testing of soil activators on crop agronomic factors.
  • Management of agricultural teams of 03 people on the site.
  • Planning and supervision of agricultural activities.
  • Planting, maintaining and harvesting fruits, vegetables and oil palm.
• Assistant to Industrial Plantation Manager, SIPEF-CI (International Society of Plantations and Finance), Côte d’Ivoire, My tasks included:
  • Implementation and monitoring of RSPO (Sustainable Palm Oil) principles.
  • Project Management for the creation of plantation and implementation of village planter projects.
  • Plant supply with palm bunches.
  • Planning and supervision of agricultural activities.
  • Management of 10 agricultural teams of 25 people.
  • Management of 3,000 ha in production and 275 ha replanting.
  • Planting, maintenance, harvesting, collection.