Panelist Howard-Yana Shapiro -- Cacao: An Uncommon Collaboration

The view that nature is so robust that it will respond to any attack is not true any longer… are we willing to take a hard look at our practices and say we are really sustainable? Are we willing to develop the logic to get there? Are we willing to secure the commitments to make it happen?

Howard-Yana Shapiro, Global Food Systems Forum panelist, is the Global Director of Plant Science and External Research, Mars Incorporated. Howard has guided Mars toward the goal of 100% sustainably sourced cacao production since joining up with the company in the late 1990s. He is also a Senior Fellow in the Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at UC Davis.”

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