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  • Department of Global Development
  • global development
  • Environment
  • Agriculture & Food Systems

Fall 2024 Harry ’51 and Joshua ’49 Tsujimoto Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Series with support from the Meera Shekar Family Fund

About the speakers

Mario Herrero
Mario Herrero is a professor in the Cornell CALS Department of Global Development, the director of Food Systems & Global Change, a Cornell Atkinson Scholar, and the Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences. His research focuses on increasing the sustainability of food systems for the benefit of humans and ecosystems. He works in the areas of food systems and the environment, climate mitigation and adaptation, livestock systems, true cost of food, sustainability metrics, and healthy and sustainable diets. He is a highly-cited researcher according to the Web of Science, and is in the top 10 of Reuters list of most influential climate change scientists. In 2024 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. 
 
Herrero has played senior roles in many global initiatives on food and the environment. Currently, he is a Co-Chair of the Food Systems Countdown Initiative, a Coordinating Lead Author of the IPBES Nexus Assessment, a Commissioner and Executive Committee member of the EAT-Lancet 2.0 study, serves on the Expert Panel on Livestock Methane, is a member of the steering group for the global True Cost of Food Coalition, and he serves on the executive committee of the Global Burden of Animal Diseases program.
 
Before joining Cornell, he was Chief Scientist of Sustainability, at Australia’s National Science Agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). He also spent 13 years at the International Livestock Research Institute in different leadership roles. Herrero was part of the Scientific Group leading Action Track 2 - Shifts to Sustainable Food Consumption of the UN Food Systems Summit, he was a co-chair of the Cornell – Nature Sustainability expert panel for Nature Sustainability, he has held senior leadership positions on the IPCC Special Report on climate change, food security and land (lead author), the IPCC 5th and 6th Assessment Reports (lead and contributor author) in the area of agricultural greenhouse gas mitigation, a commissioner in the EAT-Lancet Commission on Sustainable Diets, The Lancet Commission on Obesity, and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences high level panel on the Future of Agriculture and Food. Additionally, he has contributed to the World and Human Development Reports and numerous integrative science initiatives globally. All of these are major endeavors (100-1000 international scientists) that shape the research and funding agendas on agriculture and food, society and the environment.
 
Daniel Mason-D'Croz 
As a senior research associate in Global Development at Cornell University, Daniel Mason-D’Croz focuses on how to achieve healthy and sustainable food systems around the world. His research revolves around assessing the impacts of climate change, the health and environmental consequences of current and future diets, and efforts to identify vulnerabilities in food systems. As a former Peace Corps volunteer with a background in development economics, he applies mixed qualitative and quantitative approaches to better understand the complexity and uncertainty of the world we inhabit with the goal of embedding this understanding in decision-making processes.
His work is characterized by its transdisciplinary nature, leveraging participatory and collaborative research to deliver high-impact research. In the process of this work, he has developed a strong reputation as an economic and foresight modeler having led IFPRI’s IMPACT modeling team, one of the oldest and most cited global agricultural models, as well as helped to update GTEM, a global integrated assessment model, for CSIRO and ABARES in Australia.
He has actively contributed to global assessments such as IPCC reports (1.5/2C and Climate Change and Land), AgMIP (Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project), FABLE (Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-use and Energy) consortium, and the EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems. He has also contributed to informing policymaking in the form of priority setting exercises for CGIAR, DFAT (Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade), CSIRO, and in regional policymaking in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and South and East Asia.

About the seminar series

The Harry ’51 & Joshua ’49 Tsujimoto Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Series showcases innovative approaches to development with experts from around the globe. Each year, the series attracts online registrants from over 45 countries and more than 350 organizations. 

Seminars are held Wednesdays from 12:20-1:10 p.m. eastern time during the semester in 101 Bradfield Hall. Students, faculty and the general public are welcome to attend in-person or via Zoom.

The series is co-sponsored by the Department of Global Development, the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, and the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management as part of courses GDEV 4961, AEM 4961, NTRES 4961, GDEV 6960, AEM 6960, and NTRES 6960.
 

Date & Time

April 23, 2025
12:20 pm - 1:10 pm

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Contact Information

Mariah Doyle-Stephenson

  • md2237 [at] cornell.edu

Speaker

Departments

Department of Global Development

Natural Resources and the Environment

Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

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