Franck LONCA

Consulting service for Agricultural Traders, Insurers, and local grain operators

Follow the Agricultural market and evaluate crop production potential for grain commodities (corn, soybean wheat, barley, rapeseed) on the worldwide major producing areas (including: North America, South America, Europe, Black sea region, China, Australia)

Internship in England in sales division of a French subsidiary of two cooperatives (MAISADOUR & SCAAP Kiwifruits de France):
• Improved the supply chain for the quality of corn on the cobs produced in Morocco but processed and sold in the U.K. market.

Worked on the business strategy of a French winery willing to expand sales overseas.

Graduate Research Assistant:
• Conducted research on “Consumer Preferences for the Origin of Ingredients and the Brand Types in the U.S. Organic Baby Food Market”.
• Available online: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/7062

Graduate Teaching Assistant:
• Teaching assistant for Agribusiness Logistics and Supply Chain, and Agricultural Market Structures.
• Graded homeworks, quizzes, and tests.
• Organized and led lab sessions in Agricultural Market Structures, students worked as teams to complete assignments and to understand how to work as an efficient team.

Project COEXTRA:
• Worked on the COEXistence and TRAçability of Genetically Modified (GM) and non-GM maize along supply chains.
• Researched the optimized mix of male sterile GM-maize and fertile maize (needed for pollinization) seeds in a field to improve output and facilitate the introduction of GM-maize in the European Union.