Selected projects
Koru Praxis draws on a combination of current advisory assignments and prior field-based leadership roles across Europe and Africa. The experience below reflects the kinds of contexts, responsibilities, and project realities that inform the consultancy’s work today. The founder has led and coordinated value-chain and enterprise work across oil palm, cacao, coffee, and wheat, combining field operations with programme oversight. Responsibilities included financial and logistical coordination, cooperative development, processing expansion, mechanised agroecological demonstration systems, and environmental safeguards in a highly constrained operating environment.
Current assignments
Producer systems and quality assurance structuring
Portugal-based regenerative sourcing initiative| 2025–present | Portugal |hybrid
Designed a producer onboarding framework and quality assurance mechanisms, including eligibility criteria, onboarding flow, and verification logic, to support a more structured and credible producer-facing system.
Syntropic estate design and investor-facing structuring
Savnor Tanzania | 2025–2026 | Tanzania | Remote
Supporting the phased design of an 800-hectare syntropic agroforestry estate model, including pilot block layout, implementation roadmap, and preparation of an investor-facing investment note.
Feasibility and options assessment for artisanal processing by-products
LVIA / ECOCIRC | 2025–present | Burundi | Hybrid
A technical feasibility and options assessment for the valorisation of effluents and by-products from artisanal palm oil processing, including a field characterisation approach and option screening adapted to local operational realities.
Prior experience
Value chains, enterprise development and programme leadership
Virunga National Park / Virunga Alliance | 2023 – 2025 | DRC | On-site
Led and coordinated value-chain and enterprise work across oil palm, cacao, coffee, and wheat, combining field operations with programme oversight. Responsibilities included financial and logistical coordination, cooperative development, processing expansion, mechanised agroecological demonstration systems, and environmental safeguards in a highly constrained operating environment.
Agricultural R&D & programme operations
Savnor S.A. | 2020 – 2023 | Burundi | On-site
Combined strategic planning with operational leadership across plantation, processing, and smallholder systems. The role covered agroecological cultivation, value-chain optimisation, organisational restructuring, KPI development, partnership management, feasibility studies, and employee capacity support, alongside oversight of more than 1,000 hectares, two palm oil mills, more than 1,500 employees, and a large smallholder programme.
Agroforestry-based reforestation and implementation coordination
Herdade do Freixo do Meio | 2020 | Portugal | On-site
Coordinated an agroforestry-based reforestation project covering more than 100 hectares, including nursery operations, implementation planning, monitoring, control, and reporting.
Applied agroforestry and land management consultancy
Volterra | 2020 | Spain | On-site
Provided consultancy support on alternative management practices, holistic livestock handling, irrigation systems, agroforestry monitoring, and applied land-use design, including the design of an agroecological apple orchard and ecotourism farm in Cantabria.
Further examples can be shared in direct conversation where relevant to a potential collaboration.