About
As a senior research associate in Global Development, 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.
Interests
Food system transformation
Scenario development/analysis & economic/foresight modeling
Anticipatory governance & futures thinking
