Rachael GARRETT

Rachael Garrett is a Professor of Conservation and Development at Cambridge University in the Department of Geography. She works towards sustainable and just land systems with a focus on the wellbeing of people living in tropical agricultural-forest frontiers. Her work aims to help end deforestation, restore tree cover on cleared areas, and foster economic transformations that enhance the value of healthy forests.
​Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Cambridge Rachael was an Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy at ETH Zurich in the Dept. of Humanities, Social, and Political Sciences and the Dept. of Environmental Systems Science and an Assistant Professor of Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change at Boston University. Rachael was a Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Sustainability Science at Harvard University and a National Science Foundation Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability Fellow. She received her PhD through the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources at Stanford University in 2013, an MPA in Environmental Science and Policy from Columbia University in 2006, and a BA in History and Environmental Analysis and Policy from Boston University in 2003.

Title of the presentation: The impact of supply chain policies is undermined by leakage

Abstract: This presentation will focus on the local leakage effects of food supply chain policies, both for the targeted commodities and across commodity sectors. We reiterate the results of previous soy and oil palm studies, and then present the results of three new papers in our group on cocoa and cattle.

Email: rg711@cam.ac.uk