Sara Scherr

Sara Scherr is the founding President and CEO of EcoAgriculture Partners and Chair of the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative. She is an agricultural and natural resource economist specializing in land management policy in tropical developing countries. In 2011, she led the founding of the Landscapes for People, Food and Nature Initiative, for which EcoAgriculture Partners now acts as secretariat. She currently serves on the board of Bioversity International, as well as on the advisory board of Food Tank, the Scientific Advisory Board for the ASSETS (Attaining Sustainable Services from Ecosystems) research program, as a member of the UN Agri-food Task Force, and on the design team of the Solutions from the Land initiative. She is also a member of the scientific editorial boards of the journals Agroforestry Systems, International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, and Land Use Policy.