People

Principal Investigator

Prof. Dr. Rachael Garrett is Chair of the Conservation and Development Lab (CDL) at the University of Cambridge. She is an environmental social scientist from the US, who uses a wide range of research methods and designs. Her primary interests are sustainable development and forest conservation. She has two children, a dog, and a husband with whom she loves to hike, swim, and camp. Email

Team at the Conservation and Development Lab

Dr. Janina Grabs

Janina is an Assistant Professor at ESADE Business School and associated researcher in the CDL She is a co-investigator of the SNF project on ZDCs in Indonesia, and continues to co-lead the lab’s work on palm oil. She co-supervises Adelina. Email

Adelina Chandra

Adelina is a PhD student at the CDL, but based at ETH Zurich. Her PhD thesis examines the effectiveness and equity of ZDCs in the Indonesian oil palm sector through the use of producer surveys and spatial analysis. Email

Dr. Federico Cammelli

Federico is a postdoc in the CDL, but based at ETH Zurich. He coordinates the comparative fieldwork and works on ZDCs in the Brazilian cattle and soy sectors. He specializes in experimental and quasi-experimental methods. Email. 

Dr. Makafui Dzudzor

Makafui Dzudzor is a Postdoctoral Research Associate researching how tree tenure programs promoted by supply chain actors can help scale up agroforestry as a forest landscape conservation and sustainable livelihood strategy. Makafui has a background in agricultural and development economics.

Dr. Florian Gollnow

Florian is a former postdoc in the CDL, now a Data Scientist at Trase (SEI). He works on assessing the adoption and effectiveness of zero-deforestation commitments in the soy sector through the use of spatial econometrics. Email.    

Dr. Joss Lyons-White

Joss is a post-doc in CDL at Cambridge. He uses qualitative and quantitative approaches to explore the challenges of implementing corporate “zero deforestation” commitments effectively and equitably in highly forested countries. At CDL, he leads the Indonesia RCT.

Joyce Brandão

Joyce is a PhD student at the Conservation and Development Lab at Cambridge. Her research focuses on understanding how public and private forest policies targeted at soy and cattle can be effective and equitable in the Brazilian Amazon and the Cerrado.

Thomas Addoah

Thomas is a PhD student at the Conservation and Development Lab at Cambridge. His research focuses on the effective and equitable implementation of forest-​focused supply chain policies and initiatives in the cocoa sector of Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire.

Norina Furrer

Norina is a PhD student at the University of Zurich working on the ERC Forest Policy grant. She is leading the observation analysis of cocoa farms and PES in Cote d’Ivoire. Email.

Keesey-Prisca Kouakou

Prisca is a PhD student in CDL. Her Ph.D. focuses on understanding the conditions under which supply chain sustainability initiatives can lead to agroforestry adoption and how that influences social and ecological outcomes in the cocoa sector of Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana. 

Sami Kambire

Sami is a PhD student Félix Houphouet Boigny University. Sami is the field manager for our observational analysis of cocoa farms and PES in Cote d’Ivoire.                                            

Matthew Stigler

Matthew is a post-doc in CDL based in ETH Zurich. He focuses on causal inference methods to analyse the effectiveness of supply-​chain policies against deforestation. Details.

Dr Oscar Sampaio

Oscar is a Cambridge CDL postdoctoral fellow and professor at the Federal University of Mato Grosso (Brazil) in Food Science, analyses the Brazilian Amazon survey data. His focus: grasp the impact of livestock supply chain policies and cross-sector opportunities on the Bioeconomy, specifically non-timber forest products. Email

Dr. Samuel A. Levy

Sam is a former PhD student in the CDL, now a post-doc at NYU. His PhD thesis investigated the effectiveness and equity of ZDCs in the cattle sector of the Brazilian Amazon using surveys, spatial econometrics and network analysis. Email

Coralie Delacoste

Coralie is a master student in Environmental Sciences at University of Geneva working on the ERC Forest Policy grant. She is supporting the observation analysis of cocoa farms and PES in Côte D’Ivoire. Email: coralie@engageability.ch

Collaborators around the world

From top left to bottom right: On cocoa, we collaborate with Dr. Toby Gardner (SEI); Prof. Dr. Patrick Meyfroidt, Prof. Dr. Goedele Van den Broeck, and Dr. Erasmus zu Ermgassen (UC Louvain); Dr. Christian Bunn (CGIAR/CIAT); Prof. Dr. Jan Dirk Wegner (University of Zürich); Dr. Wilma Blaser Hart (University of Queensland Australia); as well as Prof. Dr. Johan Six (ETH Zürich). On cattle, we collaborate with Prof. Dr. Holly Gibbs and her research group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; as well as Judson Ferreira Valentim from EMBRAPA. On soy and palm oil, we collaborate with Nelson Villoria (Kansas State University), as well as Prof. Dr. Kim Carlson and Rodrigo Rivero (NYU). On palm oil, we further collaborate with Prof. Dr. Robert Heilmayr and Jason Benedict (UC Santa Barbara); as well as Prof. Dr. Arya H. Dharmawan and Dr. Nia Kurniawati Hidayat (IPB University).

Website image credit:

This website only uses images that we took ourselves or that are licensed for creative commons usage. Many thanks to the image creators Paulo Brando (for images of forests and deforestation in Brazil and fire use), as well as Alexandre Brondino, Marion Beraudias, and Kristiana Pinne for their pictures of cocoa trees and pods.