Howard-Yana Shapiro

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Howard-Yana Shapiro has been involved with sustainable agricultural and agroforestry systems, plant breeding, molecular biology and genetics for over 50 years. He has worked with indigenous communities, NGO’s, governmental agencies and the private sector around the world.

He served for 20 years as the Chief Agricultural Officer for Mars, Incorporated, with agriculture, agroforestry, food security and food safety projects in Africa, SE Asia, India, China, The Americas.

His academic career spans 45 years, a former Fulbright Scholar and Ford Foundation Fellow and a winner of the National Endowment for the Humanities Award.  He was lead author in the IAASTD chapter on Biotechnology and Biodiversity.  He was Chairperson of the Board of the Agriculture Sustainability Institute at UC Davis for 10 years. He served as the Co-Chairperson for the 1st and 2nd World Congress of Agroforestry.  In 2014 he co-authored the Mid-Term Review of the CGIAR with Sir John Beddington.