HODE, Dègnissou Armel Angelo Marie-Joël

HODE, Dègnissou Armel Angelo Marie-Joël

What Did you enjoy about the Classes?

I enjoyed the PowerPoint presentations, the explanation, the support materials and the quizzes.
I have also found very interesting courses on research design and project implementation.
This part of the training was important because it included some tips related to daily situations managed in research and project areas.
Finally, biostatistics courses were the bedrock of research design and project implementation courses.

PROFILE

Name: HODE, Dègnissou Armel Angelo Marie-Joël

Email: daamj87@gmail.com

Marie-Joel is a bilingual (French, English), agricultural economist from Benin Republic. His professional motivation is to improve the livelihoods of the most vulnerable people in the rural areas.
He is interested in development economics topics such as rural labor markets, poverty alleviation, food and nutrition security, agribusiness, climate change, and agricultural digitalization.
Marie’s two academic research projects focused on the “Financial profitability of African giant snail breeding” and the “Impact of rural employment on the well-being of small-scale rice farmers” in Benin. These dissertations underlined the linkages between agriculture, nutrition, and health to ensure a positive outcome of people' s well-being.
His professional experiences integrate public, private, international agricultural, and agritech firms. He believes research plays a crucial role in agribusiness, since it helps in efficient decisions-making. This explains his participation in the research and biostatistics courses offered by the Freya International Schools of Research & Implementation (FISORI).
Finally, Marie is a member of the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), United Nations (UN) Nutrition, Farmer Field Schools of the Food and Agriculture Organization, etc. I also completed consultancy jobs with World Food Programme (WFP), World Bank, and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).

Professional experiences

Marie has more than five years of work experience in entrepreneurship, agricultural value chain development, climate change, digital agriculture, nutrition, and poverty alleviation in rural areas.

Since September 2025

Facilitator for Cross-Border Trade and Barriers in Agro-forestry-pastoral and Fisheries Products between Benin (Boukoumbe, Datori) and Togo (Nadoba, Gando) for the Regional Agricultural Market Integration Program (PRIMA): Digital data collection with Akvo-Flow software.

 July-September 2025

Technician, Sale agent and Project manager at Holland GreenTech Benin.

 Since February 2025

Online United Nations Volunteer (UNV) and French Regional Coordinator on TrueTalk Awareness Groups of the African Youth for Peace and Development project (AYPAD) for the United Nations of Development program (UNDP): Dissemination of scientific articles related to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), training in research tools & softwares in Biostatistics with the FISORI research Institute (Grant).

 March 2023-April 2024 (13 months)

Agricultural market manager: Manage via AgroSfer (Agritech) digital marketplace the offer and the demand of more than 50 small and medium agri-food and agricultural firms plus cooperatives in the North and Collines regions of Benin.

 April 2022-February 2023 (11 months)

Internal Control System Coordinator (Best employee): Coaching, digital data collection, management of agricultural inputs supply (seeds, rhizobium, biostimulants, line sowing machine), edition of threshers’ business plan and participation in the marketing of organic and conventional soybean towards more than 200 small-scale soybean farmers in the Agroecological zone 4 with the SIPI/GDIZ, Benin.

 April-September 2014 (6 months)

Professional Technician (Volounteering): Gardening production and market access with the Municipality Sector of Agricultural Development/ Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries (SCDA/MAEP), Abomey-Calavi.

 January 2012-2014 (24 months)

Technical advisor: Monitoring of coconut seedlings planted, supervision of coconut harvest, identification of sustainable market access for coconut harvested, completion of income account for 02 Ha of coconut farm, Ouidah (South of Benin).

 November 2011-2013 (24 months)

Technician for agricultural socioeconomic research: Design of questionnaires and database, digital data collection and analysis, Social Dynamic and Development Lab (LADyD), University of Abomey-Calavi (UAC), Benin. Other professional experiences

 16-20/06/2025 Field agent

Qualitative and quantitative data collection via Survey Solutions software on the support analysis for seed production (pre-base, base and certified) of the Market Gardening Development Support Project (PADMAR) in Couffo department of Benin, Interventions Programme of IFAD (International Funds for Agricultural Development) in Rural area (ProCaR), Benin.

 01-12/06/2025 Field agent

Quantitative data collection via KoBoCollect Software on the farmers’ perception of early detection and management of the Fall Armyworm (FAW) of maize in the communes of Bembereke and Kouande in Benin, Genetics Biotechnology and Seed Science Unit (GbioS).

 05/2025 Field agent (01 week)

Data collection on the state of agricultural lowlands using focus group and observation in the context of social and environmental impact study of Regional Programme for Agricultural Market Integration (PRIMA) in Benin.

 04/2025 Field agent (02 weeks)

Quantitative data collection via Survey Solutions and KoBoCollect on the global satisfaction of the institutional beneficiaries and the value chain actors of the rice, maize, shea, and vegetables for the Integrated Digital Transformation Project in Rural Areas of the Benin Republic (PITN2R), World Bank.

 12/2024 Data collection assistant (02 weeks)

Qualitative and quantitative data collection via KoboCollect among 20 health facilities (hospitals, health centers) within the 9 communes of Atacora department under « the verification mission of Disbursements Linked Indicators (DLIs) of PforR program » implemented by the World Bank and the Regional Institute of Public Health (IRSP) in Benin.

 11/2024 Data collection assistant (02 weeks)

Digital data collection via Akvo-Flow platform of the first 1,000 beneficiaries for the Market Gardening

Development Support Project-Extension Phase (PADMAR-E) in the communes of Pèrèrè, Nikki and Parakou for the interventions Programme of IFAD (International Funds for Agricultural Development) in Rural area (ProCaR), Benin.

 09-10/2024 Data collection assistant (01 week)

Qualitative and quantitative data collection via KoboCollect and analysis on the business opportunity of the ecological fireplace and fuel for 150 rural actors (households, school canteens and agri-food processing firms) in Borgou region of Benin, « Women Climate Entrepreneurship (FE-C) » project, International NGO Eclosio.

 08-09/2024 Research assistant in agricultural economics (02 weeks)

Digital data collection via Akvo-Flow platform of the first 1,000 beneficiaries for the Market Gardening Development Support Project-Extension Phase (PADMAR-E) in the communes of Karimama and Malanville for the interventions Programme of IFAD (International Funds for Agricultural Development) in Rural area (ProCaR), Benin.

 07-08/2024 Research assistant in agricultural economics (02 weeks)

Qualitative and quantitative data collection using focus group and structured questionnaires among 100 rural actors (small-scale farmers, small and medium food processors, transporter, traders) for the baseline study on the marketing channel, cross-border flow of agri-wood-livestock products and the barriers to the cross-border sales between Benin (Ouake in Donga) and Togo (Ketao), Regional Agency for Food and Agriculture (ARAA-ECOWAS), Regional Programme for Agricultural Market Integration (PRIMA).

 12/2022 Data collection assistant (02 weeks)

Qualitative and quantitative data collection with KoBoCollect on the Research programme Support for the Agricultural Innovation (PARI) among research, extension and technical education agricultural institutions in the North of Benin.

 05/2022 Research assistant in agricultural economics (02 weeks)

National data collection with the IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) interventions programme in rural areas of Benin (ProCaR) on the updating of the rural adapted financial services promotion programme (PAPSFRA) RUCHE platform via AKVO-FLOW software.

 16-21/05/2022 Data collection assistant (01 week)

Data collection on biodiversity protection in the context of the rehabilitation and asphalting of the Guessou-Sud-FoBoure-Sinende road in Benin.

 08/2021 Data collection assistant (02 weeks)

National data collection via KoBo Collect plus a report submission on the production costs assessment of raw cashew nuts produced, International NGO TECHNOSERVE, Benin.

 07-08/2021 Data collection assistant (06 weeks)

National data collection with KoBo Collect software on impact and effect final assessment of rural adapted financial services promotion programme (PAPSFRA) for the IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) interventions programme in rural areas of Benin (ProCaR).

 06/2021 Enumerator (01 week)

Data collection with KoBo Collect software on income assessment of 150 farmers and processors of rice, soya beans, cashew nuts and shea sectors by Agri-Business Cluster (ABC) and Smart Valley approaches for the Promotion Project of Agriculture by the German Cooperation (GIZ/ProAgri 4) in the communes of Kouande and Pehunco, Benin.

 02/2021 Consultant (02 weeks)

Data collection with KoBo Collect software and analysis on qualitative impact assessment of the project ‘105 localities’ for access to rural energy in Benin with GRET NGO.

 06/2020 Data collection assistant (02 weeks)

National data collection via KoBo Collect on the agricultural value chains of maize, rice and cassava with the IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) interventions programme in rural areas of Benin (ProCaR).

 12/2020 Consultant in Monitoring-Evaluation (02 weeks)

Update Delta platform of programmes and project for the West and Central Africa Council for Agricultural Research and Development (WECARD), Senegal.

 19-29/03/2019 Data collection assistant (02 weeks)

Data collection with the National Agricultural Research Institute (INRAB) using ODK Collect on the solutions adopted by the rural small-scale farmers towards the financing constraints in the communes of N’dali, Ouèssè, Glazoué and Dassa-Zoume of Benin.

 03/2019 Data collection assistant (02 Weeks)

Digital data collection (ODK-Collecte) on the agricultural mechanization for the productivity growth, employment and the value added in the North of Benin for the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA).

 10-11/2018 Main consultant (06 weeks)

Agricultural and Nutritional data collection plus analysis among 208 rural households of Benin’s Rice Consultation Council (CCRB) in the communes of Aguegues, Dangbo, Adjohoun and Bonou.

 07-09/2015 Teacher (05 weeks)

Teaching of French language through E-learning for the Junior Secondary School students of the Educational Advancement Centre in Ibadan, Nigeria.

 08/2014 Data collection assistant (04 weeks)

Nutritional data collection with World Food Programme (WFP) among 100 patients suffering from HIV and tuberculosis in four public hospitals of Cotonou, Benin (Database reference).

 03/2014 Data collection assistant (02 weeks)

Nutritional data collection among students of four primaries schools in Cotonou, Benin for the Regional Institute of the Public Health (IRSP) within the International Agency Atomic Energy (AIEA) project.

Education & Diplomas

 2019 M.Sc. (Merit) in Agricultural economics, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. / 2011 Professional BSc, Catholic University of West Africa (CUWA), Bénin. / 2009 HND in Human Nutrition, Food Sciences and Technologies,

University of Abomey-Calavi (UAC), Faculty of Agricultural Sciences (FSA), Benin

Professional education / Continuing education

2025 Agroecology for Africa (FAO); Outdoor Tomato Farming Course, Indoor Cucumber Cultivation Course (Rijk Zwaan)

2024 Make me a Change Agent for Agriculture, Livelihoods, and WASH, Cash For Work (CFW), INSO NGO Security

Management (DisasterReady); Information, Communication &Technologies for the Development (ICT4D) in Agriculture, Digital Rural Finance (IFAD) ; Business Plan designing (GIZ); Group sale of the rice, soybean and shea sectors (GIZ); Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and Nutrition: Upgrading Business Models (FAO);

Designing Multidimensional Poverty Index (UNDP & OPHI, University of Oxford); Monitoring foundations &

emergencies (WFP); Qualitative data analysis (WFP); I Know Gender for Women’s Economic Empowerment (UNWomen); Scholarship for African Women Empowerment in Agribusiness (Guzakuza); Business concept &

Business plan (FAO); African Grains Online (GIZ & eProd)

2023 Tropical agriculture platform, Certificate in development of business plan, being Agripreneur, Inclusive Contract Farming, Agri-Business, Entrepreneurship Agricultural Value chains, Village Poultry Farming, Digital Marketing, Gender makes Business Sense, climate change and carbon markets (GIZ & Agri-Business Facility for Africa & Smart Africa); Nutrition, Food Security and Livelihoods (FAO)

2022 Certificate in Foresight for Food Systems Transformation, Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA)

2021 - Certificate in Nutrition & Food Systems for Sustainable and Healthy Diets, Food and Agriculture

Organization (FAO);

- Certificate in organic gardening, nutrition, natural medecine and income generation, International Institute

Thrive (Grant);

- Food Environments for Healthy Sustainable Diets, University Research of Wageningen;

- Certificate in Social Protection and Rural Poverty (International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth)

2020 Certificate in project monitoring & evaluation and data analysis (Ifè-Lab, Benin)

2011 Certificate in Farm enterprise training, Songhaï Centre, Porto-Novo

Specific knowledge

Project Management Tools Mastering: Trello, Delta plateform of WECARD

Others computer skills: Learning Management System (LMS) software, Akvoflow, AFIS, AgroSfer Survey, KoBoCollect,

Microsoft Office, SPSS, STATA

Others Skills & Qualities

Publication HODE, M. J. (2019). Impact of off-farm income on Multidimensional Poverty: Empirical

evidence from rice farmers in Benin (Master’s thesis).

Conferences/Webinars - The European Union Organic Market for Grains, Pulses and Oilseeds-New Rules and Opportunities;

- Home gardens for resilience and recovery in developing and emergency settings by ISDC and IGZ;

- Social and Behaviour Change for Improved Agriculture and Nutrition by ANH Academy & amp; GIZ

- Nutrition in a digital world by United Nations (UN) Nutrition

Morality Calm, lasting, punctual, autonomous, great adaptability and work under stress in team

and in a multicultural environment

Membership

Member of the Centre for the Promotion of Imports from developing countries (CBI), Member of U-Reporters of UNICEF in Benin, Member of DAAD ClimapAfrica Working Group Climate Change and Land Use, Member of Renewable Energy Coalition (REC), Member of FAO’ s Farmer Field School (FFS) community; Member of Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), Member of UN NutritionRolling machine Motorbike and car (License B) driving