Howard yana shapiro biography of albert

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]

Biography

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