Daniel Mason-D’Croz, a senior research associate in the department of Global Development at Cornell University, works on understanding current food systems and the potential to achieve healthier and more sustainable food systems worldwide. Throughout his career, he has worked with impact-oriented research organizations including IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute), CSIRO (Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization), and Cornell Food System and Global Change team. His research is transdisciplinary and leverages participatory and collaborative approaches.
His work has focused on a range of topics to try to assess food system resilience, vulnerabilities, and the consequences of transformational change. This has included assessing the economic and food security consequences of future climate change, the role of diets in achieving improved health and environmental outcomes, the potential of food system innovations to contribute to more sustainable and just food systems, and the ability of food systems to respond to shocks and extreme events. He has contributed to the development of various foresight models to simulate global and national food systems and has contributed to a range of global assessments, including for the IPCC, IPBES, FABLE, and the EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems. He has also contributed to informing policy-making for the CGIAR, USAID, DFAT (Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade), CSIRO, and in regional policymaking in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and South and East Asia.