Miguel Altieri
Co-sponsored by Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funders (SAFSF), The Resilience Project (TRP), Foresight Analysis Nexus (FAN), The New School at Commonweal
Miguel Altieri is a world leader in transforming our relationship with agriculture and food. He taught agroecology and urban agriculture at UC Berkeley for 37 years and serves as guest professor in numerous Universities in Latin America, Spain and Italy. He has conducted most of his research in California and Latin America, working closely with farmers on implementing principles of agroecology to design productive, biodiverse and resilient farming systems.