Sustainable Agriculture & Food Policy

Enid was the Executive Director of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont, where she had been since 1987. In this position, she worked on federal and state policies on sustainable agriculture, and on programs such as...

Susan worked as an agroforestry volunteer for the Peace Corps in the Philippines. Her present research focuses on the strategies that poor farmers in the Philippines uplands use to cope with the income fluctuations inherent to agriculture...

Doreen Stabinsky is professor of Global Environmental Politics at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, USA. Her research focuses on the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food security, adaptation and adaptation...

O'Malley's dissertation work took her to Asia, Africa, Latin America and finally the upper Sacramento Valley of California--where she used theory from community ecology to help assess impacts of rice management practices on wetland insects...

Dr. Paul da Silva is an ecologist, entomologist and educator living and working in Marin County, California. At the time of becoming a Switzer fellow, he was researching integrated pest management (IPM) and biological control of insect...

Jill currently serves as the Managing Director of the Erol Foundation and 836M. For decades, Jill has been involved in the environmental movement ranging from roles in the NGO, private, and public sectors. She was the Founding Pacific Coast...

James Liebman was a Biologist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency--Region 9 in San Francisco. He worked with the Agriculture Program on non-regulatory projects that promote and support broader implementation of sustainable...

Dr. Jeff Dlott is the COO at LandScan and Chair of the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s (CDFA) Environmental Farming Science Advisory Panel (SAP). The SAP advises the CDFA Secretary on the Healthy Soils Program, State Water Efficiency and Enhancement Program, and on scientific findings, program frameworks, grower incentives, and technical assistance. Dr. Dlott has served as an appointed member since 2011.

Daniel is currently responsible for the management of three program areas at Sustainable Conservation: (1) Development of Statewide Programmatic Permitting for small scale restoration projects, (2) testing and evaluation of Ecosystem...