Else-Marie Fogtmann has over 30 years of experience working in agriculture in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Namibia. She has extensive technical knowledge of tropical agriculture, with a focus on cashews and other annual crops. Since 2014, she has been the Administrator of EMAJU, a cashew company she established in Mozambique's Nampula province. Prior to that, from 2013 to 2014, she worked as an independent consultant on cashew projects in northern Mozambique. From 1993 to 2013, she was a Project Manager for ADPP Mozambique, where she managed a 115-hectare cashew plantation and processing facility and developed training programs for small-scale

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Curriculum Vitae Else-Marie Fogtmann
Personal Data and Key Qualifications
Surname FOGTMANN
First name ELSE-MARIE
Date of Birth 06.01.1956
Nationality DANISH
Country of residence MOZAMBIQUE
Key qualifications  Technical knowledge in Tropical Agriculture;
 Facilitation skills in particular capacity building
in rural communities;
 Practical in depth experience in cashew value
chain in Mozambique
Countries worked in DENMARK, UK, ZIMBABWE, ZAMBIA, NAMIBIA
Products worked
with
CASHEWS & ANNUAL CROPS LIKE SESAME,
BEANS, MAIZE
Professional experience
Period 01.07.2014 -
Location Nampula, Mozambique
Position & Company Administrator of EMAJU
Establishment of 50 hectare cashew plantation in Monapo, Nampula in the northern Mozambique.
Registration of the company Emaju in 2015 with the permit to produce, process and sell cashews
Period 01.04.2013 -
Location Nampula, Mozambique
Position & Company Consultant in own company (EMALINK)
Liaison officer for the African Cashew Initiative (GIZ program) in the northern Mozambique
contracted by Fair Match Support in the Netherlands
 monitoring of matching fund projects implemented by cashew industry and public
institution supporting cashew producers to increase cashew production and marketing
 establishment and training net-work of 50 lead farmers training 15.000 small scale
cashew producers
Consultant service linking cashew producers to market covering following areas:
 Training and coaching of cashew producers to obtain/maintain Fairtrade certifications;
 Strengthen organisation capacity of FBO’s
 Establishment of FairTrade-supply chain from the FBO’s to processor

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Period 01.10.1993 – 31.03.2013
Location Nampula, Mozambique
Position & Company Project manager in ADPP Mozambique based in the Nampula Province
Short disription
1. 1993 – 94 Identification and legalization of land for ADPP Moçambique in Itoculo (DUAT)
2. 1995 – 2013 Establishment and management of a 115 hectare cashew plantation belonging to
ADPP;
a. 2005 starting up micro-scale cashew processing at the ADPP plantation in Itoculo with
an annual processing capacity of 40 MT of raw cashew nuts;
b. 2007 starting up a pilot facility processing the cashew apple;
c. Development of training modules in agriculture for small scale cashew producers with
training courses of 10 months of a yearly intake of 40 small-scale cashew farmers (1997
- 2004), onwards hosting training courses/seminars for agricultural technicians and small
scale producers in techniques related to cashew production on request;
3. From 2003 – 2013 in the Mogincual district involved in setting up 4 small (micro) scale cashew
processing units for individual emerging entrepreneurs and the organization of 650 cashew
producers in associations that in 2012 was Fair-Trade certified and with contracts with a local and
international buyer also Fair-Trade certified;
a. 2011 Expansion of the operation area to the Muecate district with 630 organized
producer-groups also Fair-Trade certified and with market access;
4. 2004 – 2006 Fundraising supporting 9 communities with mechanical drilled boreholes;
5. 2006 – 2010 low cost water & sanitation activities with a health component covering 60 rural
communities in the Monapo District;
6. 2007 – 2010 Farmers training programs and environmental awareness activities in the Monapo
District with a total of 1.200 small-scale farmers;
7. Since 2006 mobilization around the importance of early childhood education resulting in 50
neighbouring communities with pre-school education. By 2013 reached a net-work of 60 pre-
school volunteers educating +/-2.000 children in the age of 4 – 7 years in the Monapo District,
organized funding and the construction of 14 buildings for the purpose;
8. General project and financial management
Education
Period 2000 – 2005
Education Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development
Location Wye College, University of London
Degree Postgraduate diploma
Period 1976 – 1980
Education Education
Location 6990, Ulfborg
Degree Bachelor

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Language skills
Language Level
Danish Native
English Good
Portuguese Good
German Elementary