Contributors xxi works in a range of areas related to food security, nutrition, and climate change. His work on regenerative agriculture for small holder agriculture and bio- intensive systems for schools and urban poor spans nearly four decades, mostly in Asia. He has been awarded the Global 500 award for Environmental Achieve- ment by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). He has a strong in- terest in relating science to solving problems of the poor, and he currently spends half his time travelling in rural areas in order to be on the front lines.
Danny Hunter (Bioversity International) is Senior Scientist in the Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems initiative at Bioversity International. He has more than 25 years of experience working in over 30 countries, covering most regions of the world, specializing in the conservation and sustainable use of crop and tree genetic resources and their role in linking sustainable agriculture, environment, health, and nutrition.
He is the Agrobiodiversity Research Theme Leader for the Plant and AgroBiosciences Centre (PABC) at National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) and Series Editor of Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity, a series of books published by Earthscan from Routledge in association with Bioversity International. Nina Lauridsen (Bioversity International; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7208- 7262) works as a research fellow for the Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition pro- ject at Bioversity International. She has previously been engaged with work on neglected and underutilized species, and forest genetic resources.
Nina has a mas- ter’s in agricultural development from the University of Copenhagen and did her thesis studying the impact of deforestation on forest communities in Cambodia. Emilita Monville-Oro (International Institute of Rural Reconstruction) has spent two decades as a development worker at IIRR, a global research, develop- ment, and training institute, which has been developing innovative and practical solutions to alleviate poverty. She holds an MA in public health from James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University in Bangladesh, under a full scholarship.
Emily is a primary investigator of two evidence-based projects on integrated approaches to nutrition for school-age children, which is now being scaled up nationwide in the Philippines. She is a staunch advocate of farmer in- novations and nutrition-sensitive programming to scale up nutrition. Carmen Nyhria Rogel (Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA); https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6844- 6557) coordinates the development of projects, provides technical support and oversight, and monitors research projects and activities while also managing the centre’s programme for the provision of research grants in Southeast Asia.
She is a team member in the research initiatives of the centre towards influencing policy directions, building research capacities, and promoting research activities in the region with a focus on inclusive and sustainable agricultural and rural