Lakeview is Myrtille Lacoste and Matthew McNee, who have collaborated for twenty years. It is also the name of the place where their first formal project took place. The partnership is the reason the work is what it is: two minds who have developed distinct expertise and have also spent two decades elevating each other perspectives.
Dr Myrtille Lacoste
French-Australian, based in Montpellier. Myrtille trained in agronomy and social sciences at AgroParisTech with a Master in agricultural development, and holds a PhD in agricultural systems from the University of Western Australia. She studied the diversity of farming systems and how to capture and compare them which made her, early, an expert in mixed methods. Combining qualitative and quantitative approaches together with transdisciplinary thinking has defined her career.
Myrtille has worked with subsistence farmers in Timor-Leste, Indonesia and Honduras, with broadacre growers in Australia, and with organisations in Europe, the US, Africa and the UN. A Marie Curie Fellow, she led the Nature Food perspective that renewed understanding of farmer-centric on-farm experimentation. She built GOFEN, the global network for that field, designing its messaging, web platform and repository of resources.
myrtille @ lakeviewpartners.net
Dr Matthew McNee
Australian, from Queensland. Matt trained first in natural resource economics at the University of Queensland, then completed a PhD in applied farming systems research at Charles Sturt University. He studied soil water, nutrient cycling and cover crops in dryland grain systems. Soil has been the thread of his career since: from biology to chemistry, and what it makes possible both above and below-ground.
Matt has worked alongside cane and grain growers in Australia, sheep farmers in the Falkland Islands and smallholders in India, as a research manager, a university researcher, and a government adviser. He led conservation-farming and soil-carbon programs at WANTFA (Western Australia's largest farmer association), repositioned advisory services for landscape restoration in the Falklands, provided strategic advice to a deep-tech climate-smart startup in Norway, and co-authored the Nature Food perspective on on-farm experimentation.
matthew @ lakeviewpartners.net
