idir.bais@gmail.com

Idir BAÏS, Agro economist, has more than 30 years of experience (in agricultural and rural development) and practices at the micro level (community development plan) but also at the meso and macroeconomic levels (department, region and national) by the development of a master plan for agricultural and rural development as well as the design of development strategy and agricultural and rural policy oriented towards the fight against poverty and food insecurity.

Its expertise includes the development and structuring of animal and plant value chains through the improvement of technical itineraries to increase productivity and reduce poverty and food insecurity as part of an inclusive development program, and adaptation of small and medium-sized farms, particularly in arid and semi-arid zones, to climate change.

This sustainable structuring of the value chains is then carried out through capacity building, facilitation, coordination and linking public and private actors with the aim of creating a climate of trust and complementarity between the different links in the value chain but also synergies and an environment conducive to research and development and innovation which is the basis for the competitiveness of agricultural and agri-food products.

This construction can be materialized by setting up a “collaboration framework” for public-private partnerships at local, regional or national level in the form of agricultural clusters, agro-food techno poles and other clusters. Its expertise includes the development and structuring of animal and plant value chains through the improvement of technical itineraries to increase productivity and reduce poverty and food insecurity as part of an inclusive development program.

This construction can be materialized by setting up a “collaboration framework” for public-private partnerships at local, regional or national level in the form of agricultural clusters and agro-food ‘’techno poles’’.

In this context, he participated actively in the establishment of agri-food pole in Algeria (2012-2016) and is a member of the French-Maghrebian association (France-Algeria-Morocco-Tunisia) of agricultural clusters and agro-food “techno poles”.

He has also actively participated with a private American company (Blumberg Grain), specialized in the reduction of post-harvest losses and the improvement of food and food safety, in the design of Algerian program to build 200 warehouses of collection and cereals (wheat and barley) with a total capacity of 1,000,000 tones. This logistics network spread throughout the Algerian territory is managed from the point of view of its environmental parameters, its inventory management, its security and its information system in general, remotely from a center of Command, Control and Logistics (2016-2017).

His expertise also touches the financial engineering of the agricultural and rural sector for which he therefore has a very good knowledge of the instruments, procedures and financing methods This financial package can be either budgetary, or granted through external funding from institutions and / or international organizations (World Bank, African Development Bank, European Union, IFAD, FAO …), in the form of agricultural credit, or most often in the form of a combination of the three tools mentioned above.

It has managed in this area during 5 years (2000-2005): i) the budget of the Algerian Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and for more than 15 years (2000-2016), ii) portfolios of external financing and technical assistance from the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the European Union, IFAD, and FAO, and (iii) developed a project to create mutual agricultural credit in Algeria.

In this framework, it also coordinates two major technical capacity building programs financed by the World Bank and the EU (2007-2016), covering respectively: (i) the improvement of the technical level of agricultural and rural statistics services; local, regional and central level, (ii) the establishment of agro-food poles (clusters) , the establishment of a national monitoring and evaluation system for the national agricultural and rural development policy in Algeria, and (iii) training, communication and supervision of agricultural and rural development policy.

He is also familiar with the management of agricultural risks in a context of climate change, both upstream, from the preventive point of view, and downstream by setting up various tools and instruments of management Claims (agricultural disaster funds, insurance, etc.) and reconstruction of the production tool.

Idir BAÏS has a university degree in Agricultural Agronomy at the base, zootechnics option (1977), with 3 post-graduations: Rural economy, rural spatial planning (jointly with the University of Montpellier and the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier-France, 1979 and 1983), as well as in animal production of the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Zaragoza (Spain-1988).

He has also participated for more than 30 years in the production and writing of numerous scientific and technical studies, works and articles and has attended numerous international conferences, particularly in the Mediterranean area and in Africa. In this regard, he was elected for two years as Chairman of the African Commission on Agricultural Statistics (2003-2004), the statutory body of FAO, and as such has been involved in various work and groupings in many African countries ( South Africa, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Uganda, Ghana, Egypt, Sudan, Mali, Niger, Tunisia, Morocco …).