Capricorn Projekt BV is a consultancy partnership that operates from separate bases in the Netherlands and Surinam. They maintain a wider network comprising a number of recognized high quality professional and technical specialists in the following fields: •agricultural and livestock, including production, animal health and hygiene of foods of both agriculture and animal origin; •management quality systems, such as in food quality and food safety certifcationfood quality; •management of natural ressources, with some emphasis on participatory approaches towards further development and including the consequences of climate change; and •project administrative and financial management. Capricorn Projekt explicitly recognises the need for social, economic, ecological and gender sensitivity in development policies and projects and where feasible pays much attention to human resource development. .