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Greater New York City Area United States
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Flagship 2 Leader: Climate Information Services and Climate Informed Safety Nets
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The underlying motivation for my career is a desire to alleviate the suffering associated with poverty and food insecurity. Since 1996, my work has focused on managing climate risk and fostering climate resilience -- through problem-driven agricultural systems research, and increasingly research management. The risk associated with climate variability is a major contributor to poverty and food insecurity and an impediment to agricultural development, particularly in rainfed farming systems in the dryer tropics. Past research contributions include applications of agricultural systems methods to use of climate information, farm economic risk and sustainability analysis, and land use unde...
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