Jacques AVELINO

Jacques Avelino holds a Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from the University of Orsay, Paris XI. His doctoral research on the epidemiology of coffee leaf rust was conducted in Honduras between 1994 and 1997. He is a researcher at the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD, France).

He has 40 years of experience working on coffee pests and pathogens, as well as 10 years of experience on cacao moniliasis (frosty pod rot). He also has 10 years of experience in coffee quality research. Following the coffee overproduction crisis that depressed coffee prices in the early 2000s, he initiated terroir and Geographical Indication (GI) based approaches in Central America and Indonesia.

Throughout his career, he has developed research and development projects in all Central American countries, as well as in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Indonesia, Laos, Papua New Guinea, and Uganda.