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Name

Tadeu Caldas

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Language

German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese

Contact information

Parkstrasse 23, Cologne 50968

E-Mail: tspc1@me.com
Skype: tadeu.caldas
Phone: 00491608401617
Webpage: www.ecotropic-consulting.com

Active membership

BDAA UK, Brazil, Germany, China, etc.

Qualified for Demeter conversion in

Fields of work

Field crops, Fruit growing, Vegetable Growing, Viticulture, Olive cultivation, Aromatic and Medicinal Plants, Biodynamic Preparations, Tropical agriculture, Agroforestry, Plant protection
Support to projects wanting to qualify for Fair Trade, Biodiversity, Carbon Neutrality, Company Sustainability.

Methodology

Individual consulting, Group consulting, Organisational consulting, Coaching, Project management, Supervision, Lectures, Tutorial, Workshop, Education, Training, Project development

Advisory services to companies, government bilateral and multi-lateral agencies as well as international NGOs and foundations such as the DEG, GIZ, World Bank, FAO, WWF, Heinrich Böll Foundation, CMiA, Bunge, etc. (see website)

Advisory Concept

Adaptation of the concept of healthy and productive self-sustaining farm organisms, and other biodynamic core concepts and practices to diverse agro-ecological, social, economic and cultural conditions worldwide.

Projects

see website

References

see website

I have practical experience in advisory services and/or biodynamic agriculture in the following countries

Argentina, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Germany, Honduras, India, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, ...

Argentina, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Germany, Honduras, India, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Russia, Senegal, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Remarks

Tadeu Caldas is an agronomist and has worked with biodynamic agriculture worldwide for the last 40 years. He started his career in collaboration with the late biodynamic scientist Prof. Dr. Herbert Koepf in 1978 and later as a teacher and director of the full-time Biodynamic Agriculture and Rural Development Course at Emerson College in England from 1984 to 1993. Between 1990 and 94, a defining period for the global ecological agriculture movement, Tadeu was elected for two terms to serve as a member of the Board of Directors of IFOAM, implementing the initial outreach of the federation into Asia, Africa and Latin America. His advisory work has taken him to 60 countries of all climates and continents supporting companies, groups of farmers, international NGOs, corporations and development agencies. He developed pioneering biodynamic projects with many types of crops in diverse climates, with special emphasis on tropical, sub-tropical and Mediterranean farming systems. He is concerned with the development of sustainable, economically feasible biodynamic projects with optimal yields and returns through state-of-the-art soil fertility and plant nutrition strategies for optimal quality and productivity. To achieve these aims he makes use of modern composting systems and pest & disease control strategies. The use and local manufacture of biodynamic preparations plays a central role in this process, as well as the development of practical innovations with this unique method. As part of the advisory process he provides technical training to farmers, project staff and researchers.

Peer Review (02/14/2020)
Reto Ingold
Hans Supenkaemper

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