Testimonials

"Lilian's outstanding social and scientific skills greatly benefited our project in West Africa, improving how we are disseminating agroforestry techniques in a participatory way with the local farmers. Her coaching of extension officers and development of training materials helped develop the capacity of our project to fulfill that mission." 
Fernando Sousa, FiBL 

 
"As her supervisor for two years on FAO’s “Life and Nature” project in Cambodia, I had the pleasure of working closely with Lilian on a number of highly complicated and demanding agroecology focused tasks. I can confidently recommend her as a high-tier professional and have absolute confidence in her abilities as an outstanding agroecologist and agroforestry expert with exceptional people skills to match.  Lilian brings a dynamic science-based, outside-the-box approach to her work that greatly helped to broaden the scope and results of our project. "
 

Nicholas Molyneux, Climate Smart Agriculture Expert, FAO Consultant. 

" Lilian was passionate about her job, she worked very independently, and proposed creative solutions to logistics and thematic issues that she encountered. She has gained an excellent understanding of local culture, and was very appreciated by the farmers for her friendly and respectful behaviour." 

Dr. Sabine Douxchamps, CIAT

"The journey from the training to the production of the documentary video related to my research project was interesting. It has been a good learning curve to summarize and present four years of research works and output in 4.48 minutes. All these are because of the professional and technical support of Lilian, from content creation to final video release. I had very valuable time with her. Thank you VERY much. I really, REALLY appreciated."

Dr. Yetenayet B. Tola,  Jimma University Ethiopia 

"I am happy to write a recommendation for the video production course facilitated by Lilian Beck under the VW fellowship programme which I was privileged to attend. In very compact modules we learnt practical skills of high resolution video shooting. She assisted us to appreciate the impact and value of short and concise videos for clear and targeted messaging of serious development issues. She also assisted us to produce a very nice video of our innovation. We are truly grateful for her expertise and patience."

Prof. Duncan O. Mbuge,  University of Nairobi 

 "I am really impressed with the talent, patience and level of care that Lilian brought to the participatory media projects - video, podcast and radio - that she did for UPGRADE Plus. She regularly met with researchers so that they could facilitate a meaningful content-generation process and then she supported them with all technical aspects so that the ideas could become reality." 

Dr. Margareta A. Lelea, University Kassel