Alessandro De Pinto, International Food Policy Research Institute
Alex De Pinto is a Senior Research Fellow in the Environment and Production Technology Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute where he leads IFPRI’s work on climate change and is also IFPRI’s liaison with the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security. He is an environmental and natural resource economist with 20 years of experience working in economically depressed areas. Dr. De Pinto has a PhD in Agricultural and Consumer Economics from the University of Illinois, and currently works on a series of climate smart agriculture research activities in Latin America, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa with a focus on agricultural risk management, resilience and low emissions development strategies. His research focuses on economic spatial analysis and he uses multiple modeling techniques to simulate the effects of policy changes on food security, resilience and the environment. |
Rachel Bezner Kerr, Cornell University
Rachel Bezner Kerr is an Associate Professor in Development Sociology at Cornell University with a background in environmental science, anthropology and international development. She currently serves on a project team of the United Nations High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security & Nutrition which is examining the potential for agroecology to address food security and nutrition. She will also be a Coordinating Lead Author for the chapter on food for the next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. In her research in Malawi and Tanzania she uses participatory methodologies to test the impacts of agroecological approaches on livelihoods, nutrition, sustainable land management and resilience of rural communities. She recently co-authored a paper that examines the knowledge politics on climate change in Malawi when using participatory and agroecological methods with smallholder farming communities. |
Pinki Mondal, University of Delaware
Dr. Pinki Mondal is a geospatial scientist interested in examining human-environment interaction using remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools, with specific focus on the sustainability of agricultural ecosystems. She obtained her Ph.D. in geography from the University of Florida and has worked at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, the City University of New York, and Columbia University before joining the University of Delaware. She has a broad research interest in climate change impacts and adaptation. Her research projects in Asia, Africa, and the USA focus on agricultural sensitivity to climate variability, adaptation strategies in smallholder farmer communities, and effects of national-level policies on forestry and conservation. |
Malin Pinsky, Rutgers University
Malin Pinsky is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow in Ocean Sciences at Rutgers University. He leads a research group studying the ecological and evolutionary impacts of climate change in the ocean, and he developed the OceanAdapt website to document shifting ocean animals in North America. He has published articles in Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and other international journals, and his research has received coverage in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC, National Public Radio, and other media. He has a Ph.D. from Stanford University, an A.B. from Williams College, and earlier connections along the coast of Maine. |
Kevon Rhiney, Rutgers University
Kevon Rhiney is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Rutgers University USA. His research is situated at the nexus of critical development studies, human-environment geography and political economy. Current research explores the socio-ecological and justice dimensions of global environmental change as well as the science-policy interface shaping climate change adaptation efforts in the Caribbean. He has recently co-edited two books: Globalization, Agriculture and Food in the Caribbean: Climate Change, Gender and Geography (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2016) and Global Change and the Caribbean: Adaptation and Resilience (University of the West Indies Press, 2016). Dr. Rhiney is also an editor for Geography Compass, an editorial board member for the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers Wiley Book Series and the Caribbean Geography Journal and a contributing author for the IPCC Special Report on 1.5C. He has provided technical advice in rural development and sustainable agricultural issues for several international and regional agencies including the USAID, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank, Global Environment Facility and the International Fund for Agricultural Development. |