Cracking the Nut Africa 2013 | Nathan Van Dusen – CARANA Corporation

CARANA Corporation’s Nathan Van Dusen recently joined Microlinks for a discussion on his organization’s role in the upcoming Cracking the Nut Africa conference. For Van Dusen, Cracking the Nut Africa represents an opportunity to share critical innovations and lessons learned with the broader development community. At CARANA, Van Dusen and his team work to “fill the information void” between farmers and the market and to facilitate access to finance for agribusinesses in Rwanda and beyond.

Bio: Nathan Van Dusen

Nathan Van Dusen is CARANA’s Director for Africa, overseeing management of regional projects in West and East Africa. He has technical expertise in transport and logistics, market linkages, trade policy, institutional capacity building, electoral management systems, civic education, and civil society development. He has provided on-site technical assistance to donor projects in these areas in 11 countries in Africa and Eastern Europe. He has authored numerous technical reports and articles on democratic and economic development. Before joining CARANA in 2007, he was Deputy Director for Africa at the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES).