Charlotte Raharintsoa RALISON, Full Professor at the University of Antananarivo. She is a member of the Malagasy Academy. Her qualifications include post-graduate degrees in biochemistry, food science and nutrition, toxicology, from Madagascar, Nancy and IBMC in Strasbourg, France. She has headed Labasan for 39 years in the "Fundamental and Applied Biochemistry" Department. Her research activities are focused on the characterization of available local food. She has supervised many studies on the effects of processing on food quality, on dietary practices and malnutrition problems, on complementary foods for infants: energy density, micronutrients particularly their bioavailability according to the characteristics of the food matrix. Since 1998, within Labasan, she has initiated most of the programs in an action research approach with NGOs, aiming at the use of local food resources to improve the nutritional situation of vulnerable groups, a key component of the nutrition and health program in Madagascar.