Astrid Agostini - Coordinator, Forestry Division at FAO & Minoarivelo Randrianarison - Forestry Officer, Forestry Division at FAO

Astrid Agostini - Coordinator, Forestry Division at FAO & Minoarivelo Randrianarison - Forestry Officer, Forestry Division at FAO

Astrid Agostini coordinates FAO’s work on REDD+ and National Forest Monitoring and is a member of UN-REDD management group. She has more than 20 years of experience in sustainable agriculture, natural resources management and climate change. After some years in economic consulting, Astrid joined FAO to support investment projects in Africa, Latin America and Asia financed by the World Bank, IFAD, GEF and GCF.. She has promoted sustainability approaches across the agriculture sectors, including for biofuels, and coordinated FAO’s climate finance work. Astrid holds an M.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford and an M.Sc. in Environmental and Resource Economics from University College London.

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Mino Randrianarison is a Forestry officer of the REDD+ Team of the Forestry Division at FAO. Working on REDD+ and forest management issues for many years, she supports FAO and UN-REDD programme’s work on REDD+ since 2013. She supports countries to develop and implement REDD+ projects in many African countries. She has currently particular interest in Governance in the context of REDD+ readiness and implementation phase. Mino Randrianarison holds a PhD in Environmental economics of AgroParisTech.