Evidence Synthesis | Research Teams
Ceres2030 Research team meeting, Rome, UN FAO, June 2019. Photo: Trevor Butterworth
Ceres2030 partnered with Nature Research to publish a focused collection about effective agricultural interventions could aid efforts to find sustainable solutions for ending hunger.
70 researchers volunteered to be a part of the Ceres2030 team to generate evidence on where to prioritize spending on interventions to achieve zero hunger by 2030.
Each research team had a paper published in Nature Research Journals. Read more about the researchers in the following stories.
Tanya Stathers
Lead author, Associate Professor, Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich
Jessica Ault
Metadata librarian, Food Safety and Research Information Office, National Agricultural Library
Livia Bizikova
Director, SDG Knowledge, International Institute for Sustainable Development
Ashley Celestin
MPS candidate in International Agriculture and Rural Development, Cornell University
Thomas Reardon
Professor of Development Economics, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Michigan State University.
Carolina Vargas Espinosa
Ph.D. student, Agriculture, Food and Resource Economics Department, Michigan State University
Ayala Wineman
Post-doctoral Research Associate, Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington
Maricelis Acevedo
Lead author, Associate Director, Delivering Genetic Gain in Wheat Project, Cornell University
Livia Bizikova
Director, SDG Knowledge, International Institute for Sustainable Development
Karen Cichy
Research Plant Geneticist, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service.
Kate Ghezzi-Kopel
Health Sciences and Evidence Synthesis Librarian, Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University
Krista Isaacs
Assistant Professor of International Seed Systems. Michigan State University
Sisi Meng
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Keough School of Global Affairs, Notre Dame
Kevin Pixley
Director, Genetic Resources Program, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Jaron Porciello
Co-director Ceres2030, information scientist, David R. Atkinson Center for Sustainable Development, Cornell University.
Isabelle Baltenweck
Lead author, Program Leader, Policies, Institutions and Livelihoods Program, International Livestock Research Institute
Debbie Cherney
Professor, Forage Utilization, Department of Animal Science, Cornell University
Ricardo Labarta
Agricultural and environmental economist, International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Edda Tanga Lwoga
Deputy Rector, Associate Professor Information Science College of Business Education (CBE), Tanzania
Vincent Ricciardi
Lead author, Ph.D. candidate in Resource Management and Environmental Studies, UBC
Florian Diekmann
Head, Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences Library, The Ohio State University
Meha Jain
Assistant Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
Ellen McCullough
Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Georgia
Balsher Singh Sidhu
Ph.D. candidate, Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability, UBC
Divya Solomon
Ph.D. candidate, Resource, Policy, and Behavior, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Abdrahmane Wane
Senior Development Economist, Agricultural Research Centre for International Development, Kenya
Valeria Piñeiro
Lead author, Senior Research Coordinator, International Food and Policy Research Institute
Pablo Elverdin
Strategy and Content Coordinator, Group of Producing Countries of the Southern Cone
Ana María Ibáñez
Professor, School of Economics, Universidad de los Andes; Principal Advisor, Inter-American Development Bank
Jessica Page
Librarian, Veterinary Medicine, Food, Animal and Environment Sciences, Ohio State University
Maximo Torero
Assistant Director General, Economic and Social Development Department, UN Food and Agriculture Organization
Livia Bizikova
Lead author, Director, SDG Knowledge, International Institute for Sustainable Development
Muthu Karthikeyan
Associate Professor, Institute of Cooperatives & Development Studies, Ambo University, Ethiopia
Alison Annet Kinengyere
Head, Sir Albert Cook Medical Library, Makerere University College of Health Sciences.
Kate Ghezzi-Kopel
Health Sciences and Evidence Synthesis Librarian, Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University
Chinwe Ifejika Speranza
Professor, Geography and Sustainable Development, University of Berne
Xiuli Xu
Lead author, Professor of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University
Ceres 2030 is a partnership between Cornell IP-CALS, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and the International Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD)