Estelle Bienabe has been a senior agricultural economics researcher at the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD) since 2003 and she is now an associate researcher at ICRAF. She has been working for almost 20 years in the field of market access for smallholder farmers, value chain analysis and development, and sustainability concerns in food systems in Southern countries. She has huge fieldwork experience and has been working in Costa Rica, South Africa, and now in Vietnam for the last 5 years. She has expertise in particular in standard and quality management. She coordinated projects on market transformations and innovation processes linked to large retail dynamics and to quality labelling, notably geographical indications. She edited, among others, the book, “Sustainable development and tropical agri-chains” (Springer, 2017) et al..
