19 November 2020
Director-General Qu Dongyu
UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00153 Rome, Italy
Dear Director General Qu,
We write as 286 scientists, researchers and academics to express our deep concern over your recently announced plans to “renew and strengthen” the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s alliance with CropLife International — the trade association for the pesticide/biotech industry — and to “explore new partnerships” with that industry.
Your proposal to deepen FAO’s collaboration with CropLife International undermines FAO’s policy on minimizing the harms of chemical pesticide use worldwide, including the risks associated with highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs), many of which are produced by CropLife members such as Bayer Crop Science, Corteva Agriscience, Syngenta, BASF and FMC.
UN institutions including the FAO should not be supporting a consortium of private businesses that stand to profit from the continued sale of products with documented harmful impacts on biodiversity including pollinators, ecosystem integrity and function, the health and livelihood of peasant farmers, vulnerable agricultural workers, rural and Indigenous communities. These sales are increasing in many countries of the Global South. A strategic alignment by FAO with this industry poses a fundamental conflict of interest with the UN mission and mandate to protect biodiversity, support the public good, and respect, protect and fulfill human rights such as the rights to health, a safe working environment, clean air and water, among others. This arrangement is the equivalent of the World Health Organization announcing a joint venture with Philip Morris to prevent lung cancer.
Furthermore, your proposed strategic alignment with CropLife undercuts FAO’s exemplary work to date in advancing agroecology, an approach that has been recognized by the High Level Panel of Experts’ 2019 report as offering robust pathways towards urgently needed transformations of our food and farming systems. Continued reliance on hazardous chemical pesticides — arguably an inevitable outcome of your plans to deepen collaboration with the global manufacturers of those very products — is incongruent with FAO’s responsibility to strengthen member states’ technical and policy capacities in health-protective, ecologically sound and sustainable agriculture.
Finally, we strongly endorse the letter of concern sent to your office on 19 November by over 350 civil society organizations from over 60 countries around the world.
We urge you to immediately withdraw your proposal to formalize FAO’s collaboration with CropLife International and instead, to “renew and strengthen” FAO’s commitment to an agroecological transformation of our food and farming systems and to the reduction of reliance on hazardous chemical pesticides and those technologies designed to perpetuate their use.
Sincerely,
*Institutional affiliation provided for identification purposes only
Molly Anderson, PhD
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Food Studies & Academic Director of Food Studies
Middlebury College, USA
Maywa Montenegro, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental Studies
University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Annie Shattuck, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography
Indiana University, USA
Alastair Iles, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, MTS, PhD
Associate Professor
School of International Service
American University
Washington DC (Piscataway traditional territories), USA
M. Jahi Chappell, PhD
Executive Director
Southeastern African American Farmers’ Organic Network (SAAFON), USA
Antonio Roman-Alcalá
PhD Candidate
Institute for Social Sciences, The Hague, Netherlands
Marcia Ishii, PhD
Senior Scientist
Pesticide Action Network North America, USA
Kathryn Teigen De Master, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Harriet Friedmann, PhD
Professor Emerita
Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
University of Toronto, Canada
Liz Carlisle, PhD
Assistant Professor
Environmental Studies Program
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Jessie K. Luna, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Colorado State University, USA
Miguel A Altieri, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Agroecology
University of California, Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA, USA
Ulrich Schmutz, PhD
Associate Professor for Organic Horticulture and Ecological Economics
Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience
Coventry University, UK
Brian Williams, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Geosciences
Mississippi State University, USA
Bonnie M. Miller, PhD
Professor of American Studies
University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
Yona Sipos, PhD
Assistant Teaching Professor, Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health
University of Washington, USA
Bruce Ferguson, PhD
Researcher and Professor, Agroecology
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico
Neeraja Havaligi, PhD
Courtesy Faculty Environmental Sciences Graduate Program
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Matthew Canfield, PhD
Assistant Professor
Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance, and Society
Leiden Law School, Netherlands
J. Arbuckle, PhD
Professor
Department of Sociology
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa, USA
Amy Sidran
MSAG, Washington State University
Farm Education Coordinator
The Hotchkiss School
Lakeville, CT, USA
Gilbert W. Gillespie Jr., PhD.
Retired Senior Research Associate/Senior Lecturer
Department of Development Sociology
Cornell University, USA
Colin Anderson, PhD
Associate Professor
Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience
Coventry University, UK
Nicholas A. Jackson, PhD
Honorary Research Fellow
Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience
Coventry University, UK
Douglas Jackson-Smith, PhD
Professor, School of Environment and Natural Resources
Ohio State University
Wooster, OH, USA
Theresa Selfa, PhD
Professor, Environmental Studies
SUNY-Environmental Science & Forestry
Syracuse, NY, USA
James Bingen, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI, USA
Hans R Herren, PhD
President Millennium Institute
Washington, DC, USA
Hart N. Feuer, PhD
Junior Associate Professor
Kyoto University, Japan
Melissa Perry, ScD, MHS, FACE
Professor and Chair of Environmental and Occupational Health
Milken Institute School of Public Health
The George Washington University, USA
Catherine Badgley, PhD
Professor
University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Emma McDonell, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor
University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN, USA
Jonathan Lundgren, PhD
Director
Ecdysis Foundation, USA
Craig A. Downs, PhD
Executive Director
Haereticus Environmental Laboratory, USA
Johann G. Zaller, PhD
Assoc. Prof., Institute of Zoology,
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences
Vienna, Austria
Vivian Wauters, PhD
Postdoctoral scholar
University of California, Davis,
Davis, CA, USA
Jennifer Nicklay
PhD student
University of Minnesota
Twin Cities, MN, USA
Youjin B. Chung, PhD
Assistant Professor
Energy and Resources Group & Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
Nicole M. Civita, JD, LLM
Instructor & Sustainable Food Systems Lead, Masters of the Environment
University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO, US
Charles Levkoe, PhD
Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Food Systems
Associate Professor
Department of Health Sciences
Lakehead University
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Shiney Varghese
Senior Policy Analyst
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Inger Elisabeth Måren, PhD
Associate Professor & UNESCO Chair
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Bergen
Bergen, Norway
Amy Ickowitz, PhD
Senior Scientist
Center for International Forestry Research
Bogor, Indonesia
Anne Godlewska, PhD
Professor
Geography and Planning
Queen’s University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Stephan Rist, PhD
Professor
UNESCO Chair on Cultural and Natural Heritage and Sustainable Mountain Development
Institute of Geography
University of Bern
Bern, Switzerland
Dave Goulson, PhD
Professor
School of Life Sciences
University of Sussex
Brighton, UK
Valentina Gallo, PhD
Rosalind Franklin Fellow
Associate Professor in Epidemiology and Sustainable Health
University of Groningen / Campus Fryslân
Leeuwarden, the Netherlands
Rick Welsh, PhD
Falk Family Endowed Professor & Chair
Department of Nutrition & Food Studies
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY, USA
Jean-Marc Bonmatin, PhD
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Orléans, France
Maarten Bijleveld van Lexmond, PhD
Chair IUCN-Task Force on Systemic Pesticides
Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Olwenn V Martin
Lecturer in Global Challenges
Brunel University, UK
Chris Maughan, PhD
Assistant Professor
Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience
Coventry University, UK
Nina Isabella Moeller, PhD
Associate Professor
Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience
Coventry University, UK
Diana V Luna-Gonzalez
Research Associate
Agroecology Livelihoods Collaborative
University of Vermont, USA
Jonathan Latham, PhD
Executive Director
Bioscience Resource Project
Ithaca, NY, USA
Joni Seager, PhD
Goldman Distinguished Professor
Global Studies/ Geography
Bentley University
Waltham, MA, USA
Becky Mansfield, PhD
Professor
Department of Geography
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH, USA
Graham Whitelaw, PhD
Associate Professor
School of Environmental Studies
Queen’s University
Ontario, Canada
Bruno Borsari, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Biology
Winona State University
Winona, MN, USA
Hannah Wittman, PhD
Professor, Faculty of Land and Food Systems
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Fran Klodawsky, PhD
Professor Emerita
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Carleton University
Ottawa, ON, Canada
Philip H. Howard, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Community Sustainability
Michigan State University, MI, USA
Karen Saunders
PhD Candidate
Environmental Studies Program
Antioch University New England, USA
Maggie Shanahan
PhD Candidate
Department of Entomology
University of Minnesota, USA
Elizabeth Magnuson
MPH Candidate
Community Health Promotion Program
University of Minnesota School of Public Health, USA
Kendra Strauss, PhD
Director and Associate Professor,
The Labour Studies Program
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC, Canada
Goiuri Alberdi, PhD
PostDoctoral Fellow
University of the Basque Country
Bilbao, Basque Country
Lieba Faier, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Erik Millstone, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Science Policy Research Unit
University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Sharon Perrone
PhD Candidate
Department of Horticultural Science
University of Minnesota
Twin Cities, Saint Paul, MN, USA
Targol Mesbah, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology and Social Change
California Institute of Integral Studies
San Francisco, CA, USA
Leah Utyasheva, PhD
Policy Director
Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, UK
Florianne Koechlin
Blueridge Institute
Switzerland
Cecilia Elizondo
Académica
El Colegio de la frontera sur
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México
Carolina Londoño Sánchez
Bióloga, Universidad del Valle
Curadora Museo de Entomología de la Universidad del Valle
Cali-Colombia
Dvera I. Saxton, PhD
Medical and Environmental Anthropologist
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
California State University, Fresno
Fresno, CA, USA
Anton Safer, Dr. (PhD), Dipl.-Ing.agr. (MSc agronomy)
Senior Scientist Epidemiology (retired)
Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Germany
Ernst von Weizsäcker Prof. Dr.rer.nat (PhD)
Dean Emeritus, School of Environmental Science and Management
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Professor, Freiburg University, Germany
Teresa Lloro, PhD
Community Food Activist
Associate Professor, Department of Liberal Studies
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Pomona, CA, USA
Irena Knezevic, PhD
Associate Professor, Communication and Media Studies
Carleton University
Ottawa, Canada
Hailey Shanovich, MS
PhD Student
Department of Entomology
University of Minnesota, USA
Peter Andree, PhD
Professor
Department of Political Science
Carleton University
Ottawa, Canada
V. Ernesto Méndez, PhD
Professor of Agroecology and Environmental Studies
Co-Director, Agroecology and Livelihoods Collaborative (ALC)
Interim Chair, Plant and Soil Science Department
University of Vermont, USA
Serin Houston, PhD
Assistant Professor, Geography and International Relations
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA, USA
Maureen Hays-Mitchell, PhD
Professor of Geography
Colgate University
Hamilton, NY, USA
Aaron Eddens, PhD
Assistant Professor, Area and Global Studies
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI, USA
Edward Mitchell, PhD
Professor of Biology
University of Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Marcelo Garzo Montalvo, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies
Faculty Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights
Harvard University, USA
Inge Armbrecht, PhD
Professor
Universidad del Valle, Biology Department,
Cali, Colombia
Francisco Sanchez-Bayo, PhD
Honorary Associate
School of Life and Environmental Sciences
University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
Christine M. Porter, PhD
Associate Professor and Wyoming Excellence Chair in Community & Public Health
Chair, Inter-institutional Network for Food, Agriculture and Sustainability (INFAS)
University of Wyoming, USA
Pierre Mineau, PhD
Principal Scientist at Pierre Mineau Consulting
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Kristine Madsen, MD MPH
Associate Professor
Department of Community Health Sciences
Faculty Director, Berkeley Food Institute
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Ellen R. Hansen, PhD
Professor
Department of Social Sciences
Emporia State University
Emporia KS, USA
Daniel J. Hicks, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences
University of California, Merced, USA
Elizabeth Hoover, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
University of California Berkeley
Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance
Slow Food Turtle Island Organization
Joseph Gazing Wolf
Doctoral Research Fellow
School of Life Sciences
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ, USA
Prita Lal
Member of the Faculty
Food Justice/Food Policy
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA, USA
Werner Rolf, PhD
Research and Teaching Associate
School of Life Sciences
Technical University of Munich, Germany
Elisa Oteros-Roza, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Chair on Agroecology and Food Systems
University of Vic, Catalonia, Spain
Mira Shiva, MD
Doctors for Food Safety and Biosafety
New Delhi, India
Ramón Jarquin Gálvez, PhD
Profesor-Investigador FAyV-UASLP-México
Coordinador P.E. Ing. en Agroecología
Miembro del Comité de Honor y Justicia
Sociedad Mexicana de Agricultura Sostenible A.C.
Mexico
Alanna K. Higgins
PhD Candidate
Department of Geology and Geography
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV, USA
Ivette Perfecto, PhD
James E. Cowfoot Collegiate Professor of Environmental Justice
School for Environment and Sustainability
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Gordon Fitch,
PhD Candidate
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Hunter Francis
Director, Center for Sustainability
Cal Poly State University
San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
Miguel A. Escalona, PhD
Profesor
Universidad Veracruzana
México
Narciso Barrera Bassols, PhD
Investigador Nacional SNI III
Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro
Coordinador del Grupo de Trabajo Agroecología Política CLACSO
México
Georgina M. Catacora-Vargas, PhD
Faculty member and researcher
UAC Tiahuanacu – UCB
La Paz, Bolivia
David A. Cleveland, PhD
Research Professor
Environmental Studies Program and Department of Geography
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Daniela Soleri, PhD
Research Scientist
Geography Department
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Nathan Donley, PhD
Senior Scientist
Center for Biological Diversity
Olympia, WA, USA
Andrea Gómez Lozano
Mestranda do programa em Desenvolvimento Rural PGDR
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul UFRGS
Porto Alegre, Brasil
Adriana Garriga-Lopez, PhD
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Kalamazoo College
Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Christy Morrissey, PhD
Professor
Biology and School of Environment and Sustainability
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Roseann Cohen, PhD
Executive Director
Community Agroecology Network
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Peter Rosset, PhD
Professor
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR)
Chiapas, Mexico
Fabián Carvallo Vargas M. en Com.
Red Mexicana de Periodistas Ambientales
México
Heidi Liere, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental Studies
Seattle University,
Seattle, WA, USA
Mirna Ambrosio Montoya
Estudiante de Doctorado en Agroecología
Universidad de Córdoba
Córdoba, Spain
Rachel Jade Kuzmich, BSc (hons)
PhD Candidate
Geography and Planning
Queen’s University
Kingston, Ontario, CanadaPatrice
Gustavo Alegría Fernández
Candidato a Doctor Medio Ambiente y Sociedad
Universidad Pablo de Olavide
Docente
Universidad del Cauca-Colombia
Erin Debenport, PhD
Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Graduate Studies
UCLA Department of Anthropology
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Anne C. Bellows, PhD
Professor of Food Studies
Department of Nutrition and Food Studies
Falk School of Sport and Human Dynamics
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY, USA
Piet Wit
Chair CEM-IUCN 2008 – 2016
Oudemirdum
The Netherlands
Manuel González de Molina, PhD
Full Professor
Agroecosystems History Lab
Universidad pablo de Olavide
Seville, Spain
Marta Noemí Boetto, Dra. en Ciencias Agropecuarias
Profesora Asociada y Coordinadora Ecología Agrícola
CLAySA (Cátedra Libre de Agroecología y Soberanía Alimentaria)
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Córdoba, Argentina
Lesli Hoey, PhD
Associate Professor
Taubman College, Urban and Regional Planning Program
Sustainable Food Systems Initiative
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Maria R. Finckh, PhD
Professor
Ecological Plant Protection
Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences,
University of Kassel,
Witzenhausen, Germany
Patrice A. Marchand, PhD, DSc
Senior Researcher
The Organic Food and Farming Institute
Paris, France
Nicole Wamma
Masters Student
Department of Horticultural Science
University of Minnesota
Twin Cities, Saint Paul, MN, USA
Laurence HUC, PhD
Senior Researcher
Toxalim INRAE, ENVT, University of Toulouse, UMR1331
Toulouse, France
Erin Lowe, MS
PhD candidate
Department of Environment and Resource Management
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Barbara Gemmill-Herren, PhD
Prescott College
Prescott, Arizona, USA
Kathleen McAfee, PhD
Professor of International Relations
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, USA
Marcel Achkar, PhD
Profesor Geografía Rural
Universidad de la República
Montevideo Uruguay
Doug Gurian-Sherman, PhD
Honorary Research Fellow
Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience
Coventry University, UK
Robert G. Wallace, PhD
Program Manager
Agroecology and Rural Economics Research Corps
St Paul, USA
Peter Clausing, PhD
Toxicologist
Pesticide Action Network Germany
Hamburg, Germany
Eberhard Greiser, MD, PhD
Professor (em.) of Epidemiology and Statistics in Medicine
Bremen University
Bremen, Germany
David Shaw, MS
PhD student, Environmental Studies
Coordinator, Right Livelihood College
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Kristina Dietz, PhD
Interim Professor of International and Intersocietal Relations
University of Kassel
Kassel, Germany
Markus Wissen, PhD
Professor for Social Sciences and Socio-ecological Transformation
Berlin School of Economics and Law
Berlin, Germany
Chiara Tornaghi, PhD
Associate Professor in Urban Food Sovereignty and Resilience
Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University
Coventry, UK
Bettina Engels, PhD
Associate Professor in Conflict and African Studies
Department for Political and Social Sciences
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Louisa Prause, PhD
Researcher in Agricultural and Food Politics
Department of Agricultural and Horticultural Science
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Valeria García, Ing. Agr
Estudiante Maestría en Ciencias Agrarias
Profesora Agroecología
Departamento de Sistemas Ambientales
Facultad de Agronomía
Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Elisa Greco, PhD
Associate Professor in International Political Economy and Development
European School of Social and Political Sciences
Catholic University of Lille
Lille, France
Barbara Van Dyck, PhD
Associate Professor in Political Agroecology
Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University
Coventry, UK
Michèle Rivasi
Member of the European Parliament
Greens/EFA Group
France
Hartmut Graßl
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Bundesstraße 53
20146 Hamburg
Germany
Islandia Bezerra da Costa
Departamento de Nutrição
Universidade Federal do Paraná/UFPR
Brasil
Gabriella Jorge Escudero, PhD
Assistant Professor
Departamento de Sistemas Ambientales
Facultad de Agronomía
Universidad de la República
Uruguay
Inés Gazzano, PhD
Profesora Agroecología
Departamento de Sistemas Ambientales
Facultad de Agronomía
Universidad de la República
Uruguay
Michael N. Antoniou, PhD
Reader in Molecular Genetics
Head, Gene Expression and Therapy Group
King’s College London, UK
Miriam Boyer, PhD
Leader, Research Group BioMaterialities
Food and Agricultural Policy Department, Life Sciences Faculty
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Berlin, Germany
A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, PhD
Professor
Department of International Development Studies
Trent University
Peterborough, Canada
Maria Backhouse, PhD
Assistant Prof., Leader, Research Group BioInequalities
Institute of Sociology
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Jena, Germany
Shantal Meseguer Galván
Académica
Universidad Veracruzana Intercultural-UV
GT Agroecología Política-CLACSO
Mexico
Louise Wagner, M.A.
Student at the Institute of Sociology
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Jena, Germany
Madeline Myers, MSc
PhD Candidate
Department of Geography and Planning
Queen’s University
Canada
Sara Burbi, DVM PhD
Assistant Professor, Agroecological Livestock Systems
Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience
Coventry University, UK
Marco Van De Wiel, PhD
Reader in Fluvial Processes
Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience
Coventry University, UK
Nils McCune, PhD
Research Associate
Agroecology and Livelihoods Collaborative
University of Vermont, USA
José Nelson Montoya Toledo, MC
Catedrático Tiempo Completo
GT Agroecologia Política CLACSO
Departamento de Agroecología
Universidad Autónoma Chapingo
México
Michel P. Pimbert, PhD
Professor of Agroecology and Food Politics
Director
Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience
Coventry University, UK
Luke Owen, PhD
Assistant Professor
Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience
Coventry University, UK
Maria R. Finckh, PhD
Professor, Ecological Plant Protection
Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences
University of Kassel
Germany
Rosa Lehmann, PhD
Researcher, Research Group “Bioeconomy and Inequalities”
Institute of Sociology
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Jena, Germany
Pietro De Marinis, PhD
Researcher, Department of Agri-environmental Science, Production, Territory, Agrienergy
University of Milan
Milan, Italy
Mtra. Dulce María Espinosa
Profesora Licenciatura en Sustentabilidad Ambiental
Universidad Iberoamerican
Ciudad de México, México
Regina Montero, PhD
Researcher, Environmental Toxicology Department
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico
Ciudad de México, Mexico
Cecilia Briones, MSc
Independent researcher in environmental sciences
Member of CLACSO Political Agroecology working group
Estado de México, México
Moritz Hunsmann, PhD
Associate researcher in sociology and public health
French National Center for Scientific Research
Paris, France
Anne Tittor, PhD
Researcher, Research Group “Bioeconomy and Inequalities”
Institute of Sociology
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Jena, Germany
Dennis Eversberg, PhD
Leader, Research Group “Mentalities in Flux”
Institute of Sociology
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Jena, Germany
Manuel Ángel Gómez Cruz
International Institute of Social Studies
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Universidad Centroamericana
Managua, Nicaragua
Boaventura Monjane, postdoctoral candidate
Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies
University of the Western Cape
Cape Town, South Africa
Constantine, John, PhD candidate
Sokoine University of Agriculture
Department of Crop Science and Horticulture,
Mororgoro, Tanzania
Dickson Raphael Nyika, MSc
Ministry of Agriculture
National Food Reserve Agency
Dodoma, Tanzania
Phillip Baker, PhD
Research Fellow
Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition
Deakin University
Melbourne, Australia
Gianna Gayle Amul, MSc
PhD Student, Institute of Global Health
University of Geneva
Switzerland
Yussuf Saloojee, PhD
Retired
South Africa
Susan Goldstein
Deputy Director
Associate Professor
SAMRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science
School of Public Health
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
Anam Nyembezi, PhD
Senior Lecturer
School of Public Health
University of the Western Cape
Bellville, South Africa
Uta Lehmann, PhD
Professor and Director
School of Public Health
University of the Western Cape
Robert Sobukwe Road
Bellville, South Africa
Desderius Haufiku, MPH
HOD Environmental and Occupational Health
School of Public Health
University of Namibia
Peter Delobelle, MD PhD FRSPH
Senior Researcher
Chronic Disease Initiative for Africa
University of Cape Town
A/Prof Public Health
Faculty of Medicine & Pharmacy
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Ilboudo Sylvain, PhD
Senior Researcher in Toxicology
Institute for Research in Health Sciences
National Center for Scientific and Technological Research
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Andrew K.L. Robinson, PhD
Professor
Deputy Dean
Faculty of Health Sciences
North West University
South Africa
Hernando Salcedo Fidalgo
Medical Doctor and Researcher
Groupe de Sociologie Pragmatique et Réfléxive
Member of the Governance, Ethics and Conflict of Interest in Public Health Network
Prof Simplice Davo VODOUHE, PhD
Coordinator OBEPAB, Abomey – Calavi
Republic of Benin
Adam Bertscher, MPH
PhD candidate
University of Bath
Bath, UK
Gary Fooks, PhD
Co-Director, Centre for Health and Society
Aston University
Birmingham, UK
Ellinor Isgren, PhD
Researcher
Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS)
Lund, Sweden
Prisila A. Mkenda
Lecturer, Biosciences Department
Sokoine University of Agriculture
Morogoro, Tanzania
Jan Douwe van der Ploeg,
Emeritus Professor
Rural Sociology Group
Wageningen University
Wageningen, The Netherlands
Oona Morrow, PhD
Assistant Professor
Rural Sociology Group
Wageningen University
Wageningen, The Netherlands
Mark Vicol, PhD
Assistant Professor
Rural Sociology Group
Wageningen University
Wageningen, The Netherlands
Mélissa Mialon, PhD
Research Fellow
University of Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Elisabeth Bücking, PhD (Dr. rer. nat.)
Soil Microbiologist
Forestry Research Institute Baden-Württemberg/Germany
Retired
Elina Andersson, PhD
Sustainability Science researcher
Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS)
Lund, Sweden
Amod Shah
PhD Researcher
International Institute of Social Studies
The Hague, The Netherlands
Professor Tilakavati Karupaiah, PhD, APD
School of BioSciences
Faculty of Health & Medical Sciences
Taylor’s University, Lakeside Campus
Selangor, Malaysia
Bill Jeffery, BA, LLB
Executive Director and General Counsel
Centre for Health Science and Law
Ottawa, Canada
Colin L. Soskolne, PhD
Professor emeritus
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Claudio Schuftan
Adjunct Associate Professor,
Department of International Health
Tulane School of Public Health
New Orleans, LA, USA
& PHM
Vietnam
Sara A. Quandt, PhD
Professor
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Margaret Miller
President WPHNA
Edith Cowan University
Joondalup
Western Australia
Nadja Stadlinger, PhD
Researcher
Department of Physical Geography
Stockholm University, Sweden
Anne Cristina de la Vega-Leinert, PhD
Institute of Geography and Geology
University of Greifswald
Germany
Mindi Schneider, PhD
Assistant Professor
Sociology of Development and Change
Wageningen University
The Netherlands
Stasja Koot, PhD
Assistant Professor
Sociology of Development and Change
Wageningen University
The Netherlands
Michiel Köhne, PhD
Assistant Professor
Sociology of Development and Change
Wageningen University
The Netherlands
Jana Fried, PhD
Assistant Professor
Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience
Coventry University
Coventry, UK
Paula Singmann, PhD
Medical Content Executive, Nutritional Scientist
Physicians Association for Nutrition e.V.
Munich, Germany
Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc, FAAP
President, Collegium Ramazzini
Director, Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good
Director, Global Observatory on Pollution and Health
Professor of Biology
Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA, USA
Andrea Rother, PhD
Professor
Head of Environmental Health Division
School of Public Health and Family Medicine
University of Cape Town
South Africa
Jane C. Caldwell, PhD
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (retired)
Durham, North Carolina
Professor Leslie London, MD
Head of Division of Public Health Medicine
School of Public Health and Family Medicine
University of Cape Town,
Cape Town, South Africa
Philip McMichael
Professor,
Department of Global Development
Cornell University.
Ithaca, NY, USA
Niklas Oppenrieder, MD
Medical Director
Physicians Association for Nutrition
Leonardo van den Berg, PhD
Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group
Wageningen University
Wageningen, the Netherlands
Martha Kuhnhenn, PhD
Department of Political Science & Communication Studies
University of Greifswald
Germany
Stefano B. Longo, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC, USA
Christa Wichterich, PhD
Lecturer
International Center for Development and Decent Work
Kassel, Germany
Geoffroy G. Ouedraogo, PhD
Researcher, Institute for Research in Health Sciences
Burkina Faso
Alain Garrigou, PhD
Professor in Ergonomics
University of Bordeaux, France
Zachary Goldberg
PhD Student in Geography
Pennsylvania State University
State College, PA, USA
Mwadhini Myanza
Economic Planner
IRTECO, Tanzania
Lia Kelinsky-Jones
PhD Candidate in Agricultural Leadership, Leadership, and Community Education
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA, USA
Christina M. Schiavoni, PhD
Food systems researcher
Bangkok, Thailand
Abraham Opare, OD, MPH
School of Public Health and Family Medicine
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
Omar Arellano-Aguilar, PhD
Professor Full Time
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Mexico
Ben M. McKay, PhD
Assistant Professor of Development and Sustainability
University of Calgary
Canada
Morando Soffritti, MD
Secretary General Collegium Ramazzini
Honorary President Ramazzini Institute, Italy
Jaime Rendón von Osten, PhD
Programa de Riesgos Ecotoxicológicos
Unión de Científicos Comprometidos con la Sociedad
Mexico
Meriel Watts, PhD
Merriel Watts Research and Consulting
Aotearoa New Zealand
Laura Gómez Tovar
Professor
Departamento de Agroecología-CIIDRI
Universidad Autónoma Chapingo
Mexico
Prof Mohamed Jeebhay, PhD
HOD Occupational Medicine
University of Cape Town
South Africa
María José Romero
Agronomy Career Coordinator
Universidad Técnica del Norte
Ecuador
Julia Prado, PhD
Professor Pest Management
Carrera de Agropecuaria
Universidad Técnica del Norte, Ecuador
Silvia Echeverría Sáenz, MSc
Professor
Central American Institute for Studies in Toxic Substances
National University of Costa Rica
Freylan Mena, MSc.
Researcher and teacher,
Central American Institute for Studies on Toxic Substances (IRET),
Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica
Katherine Sievert
PhD Candidate
Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition
Deakin University
Melbourne, Australia
Sarah Dickie
PhD Candidate
Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition
Deakin University
Melbourne, Australia
Julián Vivas
PhD Candidate
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Bogota, Colombia
Miguel Gómez, MSc
Professor – Researcher
Carrera de AgropecuariaUniversidad Técnica del Norte
Ecuador
Geraldo Deffune G. de Oliveira, Eng°-Agr°, PhD
Professor
Agroecologia Aplicada, Biodinâmica e Biossegurança
Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul
Campus de Laranjeiras do Sul, Paraná, Brasil
Leonardo Melgarejo, PhD
Dr Engenharia de Producao
Professor Curso Especializacao e Agroecossistemas PPGE
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil
Marco Bertalot-Bay, economista
MSc Geografia, Unicamp
Instituto Elo, professor
Botucatu, São Paulo, Brasil
Fernanda Lopes da Fonseca
Engenheira Florestal, MSc Agroecossistemas,
Embrapa Acre, Brasil
Ronald Herrera-Sánchez PhD
Professor – Researcher
Agroecology career
Higher Technological Institute Juan Montalvo
Ecuador
Alfred A. Osoro Ph.D
Senior Lecturer
Uzima University,
Kisumu, Kenya
Bao Nguyet Dang
PhD Researcher
International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam
The Hague, The Netherlands
Nathalie Jas
Researcher
National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment
Paris, France
Yodit Kebede, PhD
Post-doctoral researcher
French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development
Montpellier, France
Michel Brossard
PhD, Senior soil scientist
French National Research Institute for Sustainable development (IRD)
Montpellier, France
Larissa Stiem-Bhatia, MSc
Scientific Project Coordinator
TMG Research gGmbH
Natalia Estrada Carmona, PhD
Associate Scientist
The Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT
Montpellier, France
Alain Brauman, PhD
Senior Soil Scientist
French National Research Institute for Sustainable development (IRD)
Montpellier France
María Laura Viteri (PhD)
Economy and Social Area
National Institute of Agriculture Innovation
Balcarce – Buenos Aires – Argentina
Nadia Bergamini
Associate Scientist
The Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT
Rome, Italy
Catherine Horner, MSc
PhD Student
University of Vermont, USA
Eric Blanchart
Soil ecologist
French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD)
Montpellier, France
Gabriela Bucini, PhD
Researcher in agroecology
Agroecology & Livelihoods Collaborative
University of Vermont, US
Fernando Ramírez Muñoz, PhD
Researcher and teacher
Centralamerican Institute for Studies on Toxic Substances
Universidad Nacional
Heredia, Costa Rica
David Michaels, PhD, MPH
Professor
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
Milken Institute School of Public Health
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA
Walter Rossing, PhD
Associate Professor
Farming Systems Ecology
Wageningen University and Research
The Netherlands
Ma. del Rocío Ugalde Salazar, M.Sc.
Researcher and teacher
Centralamerican Institute for Studies on Toxic Substances
Universidad Nacional
Costa Rica
Maria Eugenia Contesse, M.Sc.
PhD candidate
Wageningen University and Research
The Netherlands
Felix Bianchi
Associate Professor
Farming Systems Ecology
Wageningen University and Research
The Netherlands
Roseline Remans
Senior Scientist
The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
Switzerland
Carlos Huenchuleo Pedreros, PhD
Professor
Agronomy School
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
Chile
Eliana Martinez-Herrera
Professor & Researcher
The National School of Public Health
Hector Abad Gomez
University of Antioquia
Medellin, Colombia
Adnan A. Hyder, MD MPH PhD
Senior Associate Dean for Research
Professor of Global Health
Director, Center on Commercial Determinants of Health
Milken Institute School of Public Health
George Washington University
Nino Paichadze, MD MPH
Assistant Research Professor
Department of Global Health
Associate Director, Center on Commercial Determinants of Health
Milken Institute School of Public Health
The George Washington University
Kinndle Blanco Peña, DVM, Dr.Med.Vet
Researcher
Regional Institute for Toxic Substances Studies
Universidad Nacional
Costa Rica
Eric Scopel
Scientist in agronomy
International Center in Agronomic Research for Development (CIRAD)
Montpellier FRANCE
Miriam Ehret, PhD
Program Officer
Research Center for Global Food Security and Ecosystems
University of Hohenheim
Erwan Sachet, PhD Candidate
Research Associate,
Alliance Bioversity – CIAT,
University of Copenhagen
Jean-Marie Douzet
Scientist in agronomy
International Center in Agronomic Research for Development (CIRAD)
Ouagadougou Burkina Faso
Heitor Mancini Teixeira, PhD
Researcher
Wageningen University & Research
The Netherlands
Jessica Duncan, PhD
Associate Professor
Wageningen University
The Netherlands
Martha Caswell, MPP
Co-director, Agroecology & Livelihoods Collaborative
University of Vermont
Martha Orozco Aceves, PhD
Researcher and Professor
Central American Institute for Studies in Toxic Substances
National University of Costa Rica
Eve Bureau-Point, PhD
Social Anthropologist
French National Center for Scientific Research
Marseille, France
Pablo Hardoim, PhD
Independent Researcher
BioPromo
São Paulo, Brazil