Howard-Yana Shapiro

Howard-Yana Shapiro
Born1947
NationalityAmerican

Howard-Yana Shapiro is a senior advisor for the Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) and its initiative Resilient Landscapes[1] and a Senior Fellow in the Plant Sciences department at the University of California, Davis.[2]

He was previously Chief Agricultural Officer of Mars, Incorporated, and a former co-owner of Seeds of Change. At Mars, he encouraged the company's commitment to sustainable sourcing of its cocoa bean supply.[3]

Shapiro has been a Fulbright Scholar, Ford Foundation Fellow, and has won the National Endowment for the Humanities Award.[4] In 2007 he was awarded the Organic Leadership Award by the Organic Trade Association,[5] and in 2009 he was honored with UC Davis' College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Award of Distinction.[6]

  1. ^ "New initiative to prompt paradigm shift toward resilient agriculture". CIFOR Forests News. 6 November 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Davis was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Jowit, Juliette (7 May 2009). "Howard-Yana Shapiro - man from Mars trying to save the planet". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Hinsenkamp was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Howard Shapiro", Organic Trade Association, 2007, retrieved August 14, 2017
  6. ^ "2009 Award of Distinction Recipients", UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, archived from the original on July 29, 2017, retrieved August 14, 2017