Howard-Yana Shapiro
Howard-Yana Shapiro is the Chief Agricultural Officer, Mars, Incorporated; Fellow, Mars Advanced Research Institute; Senior Fellow, Plant Sciences, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Davis; Distinguished Fellow, The World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi; Science Advisor, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge. He has been a university professor, Fulbright Scholar, Ford Foundation Fellow, and won the National Endowment for the Humanities Award.
Recently he has been working with Google X and other groups on a project to end human stunting through better nutrition worldwide, starting in Africa.
He is the author of four books:
- Great Moments in Chocolate History: With 20 Classic Recipes From Around the World (2015)
- Chocolate: History, Culture, and Heritage (2009)
- Gardening for the Future of the Earth (2000)
- Gardencycle: A Gardener's Day Journal (2000)
References
- http://www.princeton.edu/morefoodlesscarbon/speakers/howard-shapiro/
- https://www.solveforx.com/moonshot/5162157834502144
- http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AHoward-Yana%20Shapiro
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