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Francois Stepman is currently communication and donor relations manager with the EC/DevCo funded Platform for African – European Partnership in Agricultural Research for Development (PAEPARD).

He has more than 20 years of experience in development co-operation, policy advisory research and capacity building in Southern research institutes.

He lived some ten years in Africa where he worked for:

1.          the United Nation Programme for Development (UNDP) in Mauritania

2.          Medecins Sans Frontieres South Sudan Medical relief programme in Kenya

3.          the Forum for Agricultural research in Africa (FARA) in Ghana

He was research adviser in the Cabinet of the Belgian Minister for Development Co-operation in 2013 and worked for the International Institute for Communication and Development in the Hague.

Over the past 10 years (2007-2017) he has been extensively blogging on agricultural issues in Africa (a blog with an average of 20,000 visitors per month) and manages an online community of 9,600 members related to in Agricultural Research for Development (ARD) in Africa.