Prof. Amos Laar is a tenure-track academic at the University of Ghana School of Public Health. He is the Principal Investigator of the IDRC-funded ‘MEALS4NCDs project’, which is providing Measurement, Evaluation, Accountability and Leadership Support for NCDs prevention in Ghana.  Currently, his research and professional practice focus on three distinct, yet related areas of public health: Bioethics (including food ethics, ethics & public health, health & human rights); Public Health Nutrition (including food environments, food systems, and nutrition-related non-communicable diseases); and Social Public Health (including structural violence, social, and commercial determinants of health). Through these, Professor Laar’s work contributes to a deeper understanding of how physical environments, social environments, and structural factors affect health....

Dr. Liangzhi You is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). His current research focuses on assessing the impacts of technology changes in agricultural production and modeling agricultural land use systems as well as on estimating the impact of climate change and climate variability on food security. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and many reports and policy briefs. Liangzhi earned a B.S. in hydraulic engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing in 1990, and an M.S. in environmental economics and Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1999....

Dr. Ebenezer Miezah Kwofie is an assistant professor of food systems sustainability and resilience at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He holds a joint appointment at the Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and the Food Science Departments. He has PhD in Bioresource Engineering from McGill University, Canada. Prior to joining the University of Arkansas, he was a Research Associate at the Food and Bioprocess Research lab at Bioresource Engineering Department, McGill University, where he served as manager for International Food Systems Development projects, working in developing countries including Zambia, Malawi, Ethiopia, Bolivia, and Honduras. These projects were focused on enhancing food systems sustainability and strengthening capacity of stakeholders (farmers, farmer cooperatives, small-scale food enterprises, NGOs, and local government departments) Dr....

Dr. Marco d’Errico is an economist at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Holder of a PhD in Economics, he joined FAO in 2009, and since then, he has collaborated with World Bank, IFAD, and UNICEF. He is currently Team Leader for the RIMA (Resilience Index Measurement and Analysis) team and the Impact Evaluation Task Force coordinator under the Chief Economist.  ...