Matteo Tonini

Background

About Matteo Tonini

I’m a Tropical Agronomist and Livestock Specialist, with expertise in Rural Development, Food Security, Resilience, Climate Change, Environment and Early Warning System. I completed my PhD in Agro-bio-technology at the University of Florence realizing a functional, morphologic and genetics characterization of 2 cattle breeds native of the south of Angola.(Humbe and Mucubal). My professional experience began in 1998 in Mozambique during the university years, later I was in Brazil to recollect data for the MSc thesis, and in 2002 I started working for Italian Cooperation in Angola. I worked for COSPE ONG as a Country Representative and Project Coordinator and at the same time I was enrolled to PhD at University of Florence that I finished in 2007. I work with FAO since 2012 in the Representation of Luanda and from the 2014 in southern Angola (Lubango) as a Project Coordinator. My first work done for FAO has been the writing of the GEF project, currently ongoing in the south of the country. I worked two years for a private sector, as a farm manager for an Italian company in the center of the country (Bengo) but I prefer to work closely with local communities and work at FAO it always has been my greatest dream.