Dr. Bernd Neugebauer

PRESENT ACTIVITY

Global Economic Network
Governor in Latin America for México and Paraguay

Managing Director of Products for People GmbH.

- Product Development and Marketing for Mexican organic Agri-Culture Products

Managing Director of Productos Ecológicos del Vergel SPR de CV de RL
- Community production of innovative, traditionally based Mexican Agri-Culture Products and nutritional supplements

Managing Director of Trees for People S.A. de C.V.
- Programme Development and organizational management for Mexican community based Projects and Companies inforestry, raw material production

LANGUAGES
German, English, Spanish, French

PARTICULAR FIELDS OF WORK AND INTEREST
• Forestry & Agro-forestry, Ecological Silviculture
• Ecological product development, marketing, quality guidelines and standards development
• Community organisation, entrepreneurship and methodologies for rural development. Participative strategy development and evaluation
• Certification and marketing for sustainable agri- and silvi-culture.

EDUCATION
• DEGREE in Forest Sciences at the Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany. Emphasis in ecological silviculture, forest genetics and international forestry
• DIPLOMA: ISO-enzyme-variations and the taxonomy of the Genus Pinus. FIELD RESEARCH in Mexico into Pinus-genetics 1976
• PHD rer. nat. into land use planing, Prof. Dr. H. Steinlin: Dynamics of Change in Yucatán’s Village Agriculture / Mexico.

ECO-MARKETING & ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
• Design of integrated village biofuel production programmes
• Co-creation of an international sustainable rainforest community, Beyax, in México
• Evaluation and re-design of the organic Cacao production schemes in Southeast México, including improved community processing facilities and cacao-forest management schemes.
• Evaluation and re-design for organic honey production, Yucatán.
• Market studies, marketing and commercialisation advice for several Mexican smallholder organisations (cacao, honey, Aloe vera, ginger …) with agro-forestry background, presently some 50 organisations with over 2′000 tons of production.
• Reforestation advice for Communal Forestry initiatives in Yucatán
• Evaluation, restructuring and introduction of certification schemes for the German communal forestry organisations (Gemeinde und Städtebund)
• First producer of organic Aloe vera and organic forest honey
• Establishment of XINA ECO-ORANGE JUICE MARKETING SCHEME
• MARKETING CONCEPTS FOR ECOLOGICALLY SOUND PRODUCTS from Mexico and Guatemala [National Chamber of Commerce]
• RESTRUCTURING FOR 650 CHURCH COMMUNITY FORESTS and large scale reforestation in Saxonxy, Germany
• Planning and execution of intermediary AGRI- AND SILVICULTURE TRAINING PROGRAMMES.

CERTIFICATION 1989-1996
• Co-founder of FSC Germany, following the evaluation of the tropical timber sector in Germany for three leading tropical timber associations in Germany, HDH, VDH and GHK
• Co-founder of FSC International, advisor to the Board
• Forestry CHAIN OF CUSTODY VERIFICATION-STUDY for the EU
• Introduction of Forest Certification in Germany for the National Association of Cities & Communities
• Vice president and Director to IFOAM International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements 1986-1991, designing the international certification schemes for organic agriculture, following a market evaluation for 4 leading European organic companies.

1978 – 1985 LATIN AMERICA EARLY EXPERIENCES

1984-85 EVALUATION AND REPORT TO THE 1ST LATIN-AMERICAN CONGRESS ON FOREST DECLINE PROBLEMS in México.

1983-84 GOVERNMENT CONSULTANT in Quintana Roo, Mexico. Evaluation of the regional forestry organisations in

1983, Co-Design of the GTZ-Project ‘Plan Piloto Forestal’ in Chetumal, Mexico, 2 y.

1979-84 FIELD RESEARCH IN FORESTRY AND FARMING, SLASH-AND-BURN AND SMALLHOLDER AGRICULTURE IN YUCATÁN IN MEXICO, Institute of World-Forestry, Freiburg, and GTZ, 5 yrs.

1978 Status Report Tropical Forest Destruction, GTZ Mexico.

CONFERENCE PLANNING AND ORGANISATION
• Bauhaus-Dessau: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ECOLOGICAL AGRICULTURE, FAIR-TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT EXCHANGE
• TREES FOR PEOPLE FORESTRY FORUM on Ecological Forestry, Marketing and Wood Technology 1994-97
• Conference of the FOREST MOVEMENT EUROPE on Certification 1995
• INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY & HUMAN ECOLOGY CONFERENCE RUN FOR THE GERMAN SOCIETY OF HUMAN ECOLOGY in 1996
• IFOAM International Scientific Conference in Budapest 1991 Chief Organizer.

WORKHOPS AND SEMINARS ON CONCEPTS & PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT
1994 WORKSHOP SEMINAR ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGIES
in Ladakh, India. Nature Foundation, Sweden, 2 W.

1994 ORGANISATION AND STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY Latin American Agro-Ecological Movement MAELA and RAE, Cuzco, Peru, 1 W.

1994 WORKSHOP SEMINARS on Ecological Agri-Culture Development in Venezuela, Argentina, Peru, Mexico, Columbia in Partnership with local Universities and NGOs, 4-5 weeks each.

1990-94 WORKSHOP SEMINARS FORESTS & DEVELOPMENT Forestry Faculty, University of Freiburg, winter term.

1993 Research seminar on TRADITIONAL SILVICULTURE TECHNOLOGIES of the IFUGAO, Luzon, Philippines, 5 W.

1993 3 SHORT COURSES ON ECOLOGICALLY APPROPRIATE AGRI-CULTURE in Burkina Faso, Chile and the Philippines, DSE, 18 W.

1992-93 WORKSHOPS ‘FORESTRY FOR DEVELOPMENT’ Madras & Pondicherry, India.

1992 STUDY TOUR AND WORKSHOP SEMINAR ON FOREST POLICIES AND AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT POLICIES in Chile, Universidad Austral, 6 W.

1992 SEMINARS AND LECTURES Forestry Faculty, University of Freiburg

1992 WORKSHOP SEMINAR AT UNCED/GLOBAL FORUM ‘92 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and TWO PUBLIC SYMPOSIA at the Global Forum, DSE, 2 W.

1992 CURRICULUM-DESIGN FOR AGROFORESTRY AND SOCIAL FORESTRY at ESNACIFOR in Sihuatepeque, Honduras, GTZ, 6 W.

1991 Design and support of a TRAINING-CENTRE FOR SMALLHOLDER AGRICULTURE RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION in Yucatán, Mexico, 1 W.

1991 SEMINARS AND LECTURES at the Forestry Faculty, Freiburg, 1W.

1991 ECOLOGICALLY APPROPRIATE AGRI-CULTURE in Bolivia, DSE, 4 W.

1991-94 Member of the EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE ‘AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS’ International Journal.

1990 WORKSHOP SEMINAR ECOLOGICALLY APPROPRIATE AGRI-CULTURE ‘Escuela Agrícola Panamericana’, Zamorano, Honduras, DSE, 4W.

1990 PROGRAMME DIRECTOR to the 8th INTERNATIONAL IFOAM SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE on Socio-Economics of Organic Agriculture, Budapest.

1989 SUSTAINABLE FOOD PRODUCTION SYSTEMS Workshop, ITTA Nigeria.

1984-92 Tropical bio-dynamic Agri-Culture and Agro-Forestry LECTURES AT EMERSON COLLEGE, Sussex, Great Britain.

1984-92 YEARLY FIELD TRIP ORGANIZATION ON SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY FOR OXFORD FORESTRY INSTITUTE’S INTERNATIONAL SUMMER COURSES.

PUBLICATIONS AND DOCUMENTATION
2001 Ecological Technologies for Orange Juice Production. International Fruit Juice Union Conference, Cuba.

2001 Ecological Non-Plantation Orange Juice Production. International Scientific Conference, IFOAM International
Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements, Basel.

1997 several Papers on forest certification in different journals

1995 Die Wälder der Welt. J Pretzsch and J Herkendell, editors. [The World’s Forests, 3 Chapters on Forests in Latin-America, Timber Certification and Methodologies for Silviculture Development]. Beck Verlag, München.

1995 Ecological Agri-Culture Development. DSE, Feldafing 198 pp.

1994 Agricultura Ecologicamente Apropiada. Manual de Metodología para el Desarrollo de una Agri-Cultura Ecologica. 2.überarbeitete Auflage, DSE, 204 pp. Feldafing.

1994 Agri-Cultura Ecologicamente Apropiada. Manual de Metodología para el Desarrollo de una Agri-Cultura Ecologica. 2.revised edition, DSE, 204 pp. Feldafing.

1993 Wald und Marktwirtschaft [Forests and Market Economy] – Zertifizierung, ein Weg zur nachhaltigen Nutzung? Holz-Zentralblatt 4. Oktober 1993.

1993 Kultur, Wald und Entwicklung [Culture, Forests and Development]. Prisma I, 93. Goethe Institut, München.

1993 (et al) Agricultura Ecologicamente Apropiada. Manual de Metodología para el Desarrollo de una Agri-Cultura Ecologica. DSE, 184 pp. Feldafing.

1992 Von Indianern lernen? [Learning from Indigenous People] Landnutzung als kulturschaffende Kraft. In: Humanökologie und Kulturökologie, Grundlagen, Ansätze, Praxis. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen. 289-314pp.

1991 with R L Bunch. Potenciales Campesinos en el Desarrollo Práctico y Científico [Peasant Potentials in Technical and Scientific Development]. Proceedings of the Conference on Hillside Agriculture. CIAT/ITTA, San José, Costa Rica. 1991 Weltforstwirtschaft [World-Forestry] – Hat die Forstwirtschaft der Welt eine Zukunft? [Is there a Future for Forestry in the World?] Allgemeine Deutsche Forstzeitschrift 2/91, 916-920.

1990 und W. Zech. Foliar Nutrient Levels of some Forest Trees in the Yucatán, Mexico: Conclusions for Reforestation. Turrialba.[in print] Standortgerechter Landbau – eine Alternative für lateinamerikanische Bauern [Site-Specific Ecological Agriculture - an Alternative for Latin American Farmers]. In: ZEL Portrait, Jahresbericht 1990 der DSE, 79-82pp. Berlin.

1990 From Shifting Cultivation to Ecological Agriculture. Gate # 4/90, 20 – 24pp. Eschborn.

1990 (ed) Socio-Economics of Organic Agriculture. The Conference Participants’ Information Package. IFOAM, 195pp. Freiburg.

1988 Starving in the Forest. Plant Research and Development #28, 7 – 31. Tübingen.

1988 Agricultural Development in Central Yucatan and its Implications for the Promotion of Intensive Diversified Land-Use Systems. In: Global Perspectives on Agroecology and Sustainable Agricultural Systems, Proceedings of the 6th Scientific IFOAM Conference, 297-306pp. Santa Cruz, California, USA.

1987 Peranan Hutan dalam Tata Guna Tanah di Daerah Tropika. In: Metzner J. u. Daldjoeni N. (ed). Ekofarming, 374-401pp. Jakarta. Am Wald hungern? [Starving in the Forest] Universitätsblätter # 96, pp. 147-169pp. Freiburg.

1986 Mexiko – Von der Milpa zur Baumgartenwirtschaft. Blätter des Informationszentrum Dritte Welt # 133, 28-34. Freiburg.

1986 Forstplantagen oder kommunale Forstwirtschaft-Kontroverse der Vergangenheit oder der Zukunft? [Forest Plantations or Communal Forestry - Is the Controversy of Today or Tomorrow?] Allgemeine Deutsche Forstzeitschrift 86/6, 108-110.

1986 Der Wandel kleinbäuerlicher Landnutzung in Oxkutzcab/Yucatán [The Change of Village Agriculture in Oxkutzcab / Yucatán].Dissertation. Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Landespflege, 281 pp. Freiburg.

1985 und A. César Dachary. Quintana Roo: Perspectivas Agroforestales. [Agro-Forestry Perspectives] México.

1984 Family Pens as a Species-Specific System for Keeping Pigs in the Tropical Lowlands of Yucatán. In: Vogtmann, H et al (ed). The Importance of Biological Agriculture in a World of Diminishing Resources, 387-395.Witzenhausen.

1983 Watershed Management by the Maya Civilization of Central Yucatán/ Mexico. In: Glaeser, B and K D Phillips Howard (eds). Clean water for Third World Development. Vierteljahresberichte der Friedrich Ebert Stiftung # 94, 395-409.

1981 Agricultura Intensiva y Aprovechamientos Forestales [Intensive Agriculture and Forest Utilisation]. In: Alternativas para el Uso del Suelo en Areas Forestales del Trópico Húmedo. Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales. Publ Espec #28. México D.F, 57-66.

1978 Statusbericht zum Stand der Zerstörung des tropischen Regenwaldes in Mexiko [Report on the State of Destruction of the Mexican Tropical Moist Forests]. BMZ/GTZ, Germany, internal paper.

1976 Isoenzymvariationen in Kiefernsamen und ihre Bedeutung für die Taxonomie der Gattung Pinus, Freiburg, Germany.