Barcelona, Spain Sept. 20-22 , 2023
2023-09-20 10:00:00
Programme
Santacoloma-Pilar-EGEA-2023

SANTACOLOMA Pilar

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Italy

  • Pilar Santacoloma has nearly 20 years of professional experience in agricultural economics and rural development including specialized knowledge on agri-food systems analysis, agribusiness and market linkages, value chain development, agricultural policy, enterprise development, food safety and quality standards, institutional innovations, public-private partnerships, SMEs and nutrition, and project design and management in East Africa and parts of Asia, East Europe and Latin America
  • Pilar is Agri-food systems officer at the Food and Nutrition Division (ESN) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (ESN, UN-FAO) since 2019. She leads design, implementation and monitoring of projects on food systems for healthy diets –SMEs, youth and women entrepreneurship, biodiversity and market development- in several countries, including strategic advice for resource mobilization together with UN system and other organizations.
  • She also develops concepts, methodologies and guidelines for innovative sustainable markets and food systems for healthy diets in collaboration with partner’s organizations and leads the design and facilitation of capacity development activities and policy consultations on food systems for healthy diets with nutrition lens at global, regional and national levels.
  • Pilar started as a farm economist at the UN-FAO in 2001 and then worked as Agribusiness Economist. From 2014 to 2019, she became Agri-food systems officer at the Sub-regional Office for Mesoamerica (SLM) UN-FAO.
    She holds a B.SC. in Medicine Veterinary and Zootechnics and a M.Sc in Agricultural Economics from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Hohenheim University, Germany. .

Recent publications:

  1. FAO, 2023. Boosting the capacities of small-scale producers and small and medium-sized enterprises for the nutrition of the most vulnerable. Santacoloma, P., et al.
  2. Santacoloma P. and Zarate, E. 2022. ‘How can policy environment enhance small-scale producers’ participation in institutional food procurement for school feeding? Emerging institutional innovations and challenges in Latin American countries’ In L. Swenson, S. Schneider and F. Tartanac, Public Food Procurement for Sustainable Food Systems and Healthy Diet. Rome, FAO, BI and UFRGS
  3. FAO E-learning courses 2022: Small and Medium Enterprises and Nutrition: making the business case https://elearning.fao.org/course/view.php?id=725 and Small and Medium Enterprises and Nutrition: upgrading business models  https://elearning.fao.org/course/view.php?id=816 . Santacoloma P., Uccello E. and Anta, M. (Eds)
  4. FAO and INRAE. 2020. Enabling sustainable food systems: Innovators’ handbook. Loconto A., Poisot A.S. and Santacoloma P. (Eds), Rome, FAO and INRAE.
  5. Santacoloma, P., Telemans, B., Mattioni, D., Puhac, A., Scarpocchi, C., Taguchi, M. and Tartanac, F. 2021. Promoting sustainable and inclusive value chains for fruits and vegetables – Policy review. Background paper for the FAO/WHO International Workshop on Fruits and Vegetables 2020. Rome, FAO. https://www.fao.org/documents/card/es/c/cb5720en/