Pedro Sanchez
Professor, Institute for Sustainable Food Systems, University of Florida
Pedro Sanchez is a Research Professor of Tropical Soils who studies the connections between tropical soil management, fertility, and food security. At the Institute for Sustainable Food Systems, Sanchez will lead the development of a collaborative program on food and environmental security in Cuba and incorporate UF faculty and students in the long-standing food security programs he continues to be involved with in tropical Africa.
Prior to joining UF, Pedro Sanchez was Director of the Agriculture and Food Security Center and a Senior Research Scholar at the Earth Institute of Columbia University. Pedro Sanchez is a World Food Price recipient, a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He served as Director General of the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) in Nairobi, Kenya from 1991-2001, as co-chair of the United Nations Millenium Project Hunger Task Force, and as Director of the Millenium Villages Project.
By Pedro Sanchez:
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Food and Agriculture
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