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Kate Schneider

Title Research Analyst with Agricultural Development
Organization The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Kate is a Research Analyst with the Agricultural Development team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Kate works in Agricultural Policies on a team that ensures that environmental, social, and nutrition benefits of agricultural production are optimized and that risks to natural resources and household welfare are minimized. She joined the foundation in the fall of 2011 as a research analyst.

Prior to joining the foundation, Kate worked as a research assistant for a University of Washington study on the impact of improved water source interventions on time use in three rural Ethiopian villages. Before that, she was at the University of Washington Evans School of Public Affairs, earning a Master of Public Administration in International Development.

Posts By Kate Schneider

Tipping Points For the Planet: How Does Agriculture Measure Up?

Johan Rockström, executive director of the Stockholm Resilience Center (a global leader in governance for resilience in social and environmental systems), recently visited the foundation to talk about some of his latest work on agriculture and environmental change.

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A Post Earth Day Look at Growing Food Sustainably

This Earth Day consider how important it is that we figure out, as a global community, how to best help small farmers grow more food while preserving the environment.

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Nourishing People and the Planet: Time to Act

Three important international meetings this year are likely setting sustainable agricultural development on a new course.

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The Whole Picture: Balancing Agriculture and the Environment

With the 9 billion people expected on this planet by 2050, food production will have to keep up—while at the same time we need to make food better available to people, particularly to the poor.

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How Do We Produce More Food, While Taking Care of the Planet?

How do we create a “food future” where we’re not only seeing enough food produced, but we’re seeing it produced on less land, with less degradation of resources?

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