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A selection of recent and ongoing project I have been involved in.
Benefits of Climate and Ecosystem Service Benefits of Forests and Trees to Agriculture [recent]
I conceptualized, led, and coordinated the multi-agency report Climate and Ecosystem Service Benefits of Forests and Trees to Agriculture, published jointly by the FAO, SEI, CIF, and TNC.
This report was a joint effort by 49 researchers across 25+ institutions worldwide, and was launched at COP30 in Belém, Brazil.
This report seeks to provide evidence that can underpin informed decision-making on land use and land management policies and practices.
The report synthesizes state-of-the art research conducted globally on the impacts of trees and forests on key issues:
temperature regulation and resulting agricultural workers’ health and efficiency
climate regulation and its effect on crop yields
the regulation of the water cycle at local and wider scales
other benefits such as nutrient cycling, habitats for pollinators, and protection against pests.
GreenGrocer [ongoing]
GreenGrocer is a four-year Horizon Europe project that strengthens the evidence base for a sustainable food system. It improves the data and tools used to assess the environmental footprints of food, closes gaps on impacts such as deforestation, biodiversity loss and pollution, and helps decision makers put this evidence into practice.
I lead one of the project’s tasks, focused on enhancing the data foundation for food footprinting. I participate mostly in WPs 1 and 3, producing new research to fill gaps in life cycle impact assessment methods, and identifying high-impact consumer and producer groups at subnational spatial resolution.
HarvestStat Consortium [ongoing]
The HarvestStat Consortium (ongoing) is an international network collaboratively collating subnational agricultural statistics to produce a freely available global database for use in research and operations.
I am part of HarvestStat’s leadership committee, and I lead the HarvestStat Latin America and the Caribbean dataset efforts. I also organize, every quarter, HarvestStat’s webinar series.
TraseH2O [recent]
Trase (ongoing) maps the international trade and financing of commodities such as soy, beef and palm oil, enabling companies, investors and governments to address tropical deforestation.
The TraseH2O (ongoing) project explores the links between the global trade of Brazilian soy and beef commodities, water use and water scarcity, and policies designed to improve the sustainability of supply chains
Learn more:
trase.earth
TraseH2O SEI project page
Trase spotlight - Uncovering trader water reliance and risks in Brazilian soy and beef supply chains
SEI Discussion Brief - Beyond deforestation: water use in global agricultural commodity supply chains
Publication in Nature Communications Earth & Environment
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