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David Campbell | | Specialist in African and UK rural development issues
Available for consulting and executive work
Based in the UK Skills and experience- Agriculturalist with 30 years experience of working with small farmer communities in Africa and Asia
- Co-Founder and Executive Director (until 1999) of the leading agricultural development NGO, FARM-Africa
- Co-founder African Fellowship Trust and African Land and Food Fellowship Programme at the Royal Agricultural College- ( 2006)
- Vice Chair, Buckinghamshire Rural Affairs Group- (2006)
- Chair, RODI- Working with Prisoners in Africa - (2005)
- Chair, Buckinghamshire Community Action - (2004)
- Considerable experience of NGO management
- Wide contacts in Africa at all levels from village to government, and in the international development community
- Former Business Editor of Farmers Weekly
- Now a consultant working in rural affairs in the UK as well as internationally. First-hand experience of countryside issues
Profile David Campbell is a Visiting Fellow of the Royal Agricultural College, a Council and Executive Committee Member of the Royal African Society, Member of the Institute of International Affairs, the Development Studies Association and an independent consultant working in the developing world and the UK. An agricultural extension specialist by profession, he moved on from Farmers Weekly where he was Business Editor, to become OXFAM’s Field Director, first in Bangladesh and Burma and then in East Africa. In 1985 he co-founded FARM-Africa with Sir Michael Wood and served as Executive Director until 1999. Current interests: involving corporate sector in development work; linking emerging black farmers in Southern Africa to export markets; support to African and Bangladeshi NGOs; support to UK farming communities at a time of great change.
David Campbell (front row, second from left) with FARM-Africa’s senior staff in Kenya, December, 1998. To his left: Richard Turner (Fundraising Director) and to the right: Penny Jenden (Deputy Chair), Sir Peter de la Billière (Chairman), and Dr Christie Peacock (Deputy Director). Click here for full caption. |