Leadership Grant

International Climate Change and Agricultural Policy

$25,000 awarded to Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy in
Fellow(s): Doreen Stabinsky
Topic(s): Climate Change, International Conservation & Development, Sustainable Agriculture & Food Policy, Energy Resources & Access

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) has hired Doreen Stabinsky as a consultant to advise the organization on a range of issues involving climate change and agriculture.  Doreen's expertise will elevate IATP's capacity to provide substantive leadership on the links between agriculture and climate change leading up to and during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Durban, South Africa in November/December, 2011.  Doreen will advise the organization on the Durban process and how to engage governments and other NGOs on the impact of UNFCCC proposals on small-scale farmers and rural communities, and on agricultural soil carbon markets and initiatives to develop these markets.  Doreen's past experience includes a number of years with Greenpeace as Science Advisor and Campaigner.  She is currently a professor of global environmental politics at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine.

Meet the Fellows on this Project

Doreen Stabinsky

Doreen Stabinsky

1991 Fellow
Doreen Stabinsky is professor of Global Environmental Politics at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, USA. Her research focuses on the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food security, adaptation and adaptation...