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Vitoon R. Panyakul 
Vitoon R. Panyakul has been working with the Thai organic movement since 1991. During his first few years, he worked as researcher for the Local Development Institute, responsible for developing a national organic agriculture programme. In 1994, Vitoon with his colleagues started Green Net Coop, the first national organic and fairtrade food distributor and exporter and has served as Executive Director until 2002. In 2000, he found the Earth Net Foundation, a national non-profit organization working to promote organic and fairtrade development in the region where he serves as the Director of Organic Agriculture Programme up until now. Since 2002, he starts working as partner consultant with Grolink, an international consultancy service, based in Sweden, where he starts to work extensively with local groups in Asia to provide technical assistance to their organic and fairtrade projects.
From 1995, Vitoon got involved with the establishment of the national Organic Agriculture Certification Thailand (ACT), the first local certification body in the country and served as the ACT General Manager until December 1999. In 1999, Vitoon joined the International Organic Accreditation Service, an international accreditation body set up by IFOAM. Currently, he is the member of the Board of Director and accreditation committee of the IOAS.
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