Francine Picard

Bio

Francine is Co-Founder and Director of Partnerships at the Shamba Centre for Food & Climate and Coordinator of the Zero Hunger Coalition. She co-founded the Shamba Centre to help raise the political commitment to ending hunger and closing the gender gap, while providing a voice and space for vulnerable communities in decision-making. 

She has worked for more than 15 years across the African continent, advising parliamentarians, regional economic commissions, public institutions and farmers organisations on food, agriculture, land, climate change, gender equality and regional integration. 

Before co-founding the Shamba Centre, Francine was a Senior Policy Advisor and Partnerships Lead at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), managed capacity building programmes for the Pan African Parliament and served as an adviser to the Africa Forum (an organisation of former African Heads of State) on regional integration.