I research pathways to food system sustainability in the context of global change, with a particular focus on tropical agricultural products produced by smallholders and traded internationally.
At the Nature-based Solutions Initiative, in collaboration with international research institutions, NGOs and industry, I lead the development of the High Agricultural Reforestation Potential (HARP) Toolkit. HARP will be a set of tools designed to facilitate sustainable agroforestry-based reforestation in tropical agricultural landscapes, with a particular focus on cocoa and coffee producing landscapes at forest frontiers. In addition, I am collaborating on the ETH Zurich led Sustain-Cocoa project to evaluate the impacts of forest focused supply chain policies on West African cocoa producers and the remnants of the Guinean forests.