The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR and World Agroforestry (ICRAF) joined forces in 2019, leveraging a combined 65 years’ experience in research on the role of forests and trees in solving critical global challenges.
Dr. Kristjanson is a Canadian agricultural economist whose expertise includes poverty and livelihood analyses, impact assessment, agricultural system analyses and innovative research approaches for linking knowledge with action. She has over 25 years of experience leading and managing interdisciplinary agriculture research for development teams from international and national agricultural sectors across Africa and Asia. Based in Nairobi from 1992-2014 and now working out of Washing DC, from 2009-2014, Patti led the 'Linking Knowledge with Action' research theme and coordinated the gender research for the CGIAR programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) (http://ccafs.cgiar.org/themes/linking-knowledge-actionand http://ccafs.cgiar.org/gender).
She continues to work on strengthening partnerships and co-developing innovative gender-transformative research methods and social learning approaches that increase the likelihood that CGIAR's highly collaborative research will lead to actions contributing to sustainable and more equitable poverty reduction.