Pierre Johnson
Chargé de recherche et d'études, REEDS-UVSQ
Consultant and project manager on sustainable development and fair trade projects in Europe, Latin America and Africa since 1997.
Consultant and associate researcher at REEDS ecological economics lab at Versailles-St.Quentin-en Yvelines University since 2009.
Organisateur of the first African Fair Trade Symposium in Cotonou in April 2006.
International consultant for UNDP in Central America in 2005.
Conducted the first study on a fair trade label in the South (Mexico) in 2003.
Created the first social network on fair trade in 2000.
2009 - 2012REEDS is the laboratory of Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development of Versailles University.
- Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade (European, 7th framework programme).
- Evaluation of social cost of illegal gold mining in French Guyane
- Ecost: evaluation of cost of fishing métiers. With IRD.
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http://www.pierrejohnson.eu
2008 - 2009• Consultancy in certification for a start-up company in organic cosmetics for men.
• Valution of CSR frameworks in the ethanol sector in Brazil.
• Watch of the energy sector, particularly biofuels.
2006 - 2007Studies and Systematization
Program officer: Agriculture and trade (multilateral trade negociations)
* Study of multi-stakeholder dialogue at the global scale
* Organization of a workshop on agro-food at the Forum for a Responsible Globalization (Lyon, October 2006)
* Organization of the civil society meeting "Reinventing Globalization" 2006
* Systematization of the work of Bridge Initiative International and implementation of a new collaborative and multilingual Web site.
2006 - 2006Course on Fair Trade and Globalization.
(Six modules of 9 hours in November 2006)
Master "Economie Sociale et Solidaire"
2005 - 2005Diagnosis of Fair Trade in Guatemala for UNDP and the Ministry of Economy
* Diagnosis of Fair Trade (FT) in Guatemala
* Knowledge of farmers and women organizations on FT
* Proposal of public policies for the government of Guatemala
2005 - 2005Social and environmental audit of a sugar industry in process of self-management in the North-East of Brazil (Pernambuco State), for Ethical Sugar with the Brazilian certifying agency Imaflora.
Training on Fair Trade at a major cooperative, producing fruit juice, sugar and alcohol (state of Alagoas, Brazil).
2003 - 2003Study of the Mexican Fair Trade label
First study of a fair trade label in a country of the South.
Funding from an agency of the French government, within a call for projects.
2000 - 2006African Fair Trade Symposium (6-9 April 2006)
http://www.commerce-equitable-afrique.org and http://www.fairtrade-africa.org
Consultancy for the International Forum on Solidarity Tourism (Mexico, March 2006).
Syntesis of the works on socio-economic strategies for the 21st century. Sept.- Dec. 2005
Preparation and facilitation of the synthesis meeting of the WSSE, on socio-economic strategies. June -Dec. 2004
Facilitation of the Fair Trade workshop of the WSSE http://www.socioeco.org (2000-2005)
Publication of a reference book on Fair Trade, edited in 5 languages.
