Д-р. Cargele Masso
• Convening a community of practice including CGIAR internal and external stakeholders to co-develop a shared vision on pressing environmental health and biodiversity challenges and solutions to overcome them including a roadmap for the implementation of the vision, based on global critical thinking and using sound evidence and proven metrics.
• Deepening capacities of CGIAR and close partners through promotion of common tools and standards, effective knowledge management, and solutions to knowledge and innovation gaps for responding to emerging challenges using cutting-edge science.
• Amplifying CGIAR’s external profile and pathways to impacts through engaging and shaping the science to policy interface, and effective leadership in scientific communication to enhance adoption of innovations and know-how of CGIAR and its close partners for maintaining, enhancing, and restoring biodiversity and ecosystem services.
• Advise portfolio-level management and strategy based on lessons learned from the analysis of data and information generated from the various Functions to readjust and reshape initiatives tagged to environmental health and biodiversity for the development of holistic solutions to emerging challenges, while optimizing the synergies across impact areas and reducing the trade-offs.
Dr Cargele Masso works for CGIAR as the Director of the Impact Area Platform on Environmental Health and Biodiversity (Since January 2023). Before joining One CGIAR, he was working for the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in the natural resource management program (2012-23). He also worked for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA; Fertilizer Section) (2008-12), after one-year post-doctoral fellowship at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) in sustainable soil management (2007-08).
He has been contributing to global professional networks like the International Nitrogen Management Systems (INMS) and the International Nitrogen Initiative since 2014. In the context of INMS, he has been co-coordinating seven demonstration sites (East Africa, East Asia, East Europe, Latin America, North America, South Asia, and West Europe) to address issues related to water quality, air quality, greenhouse gas balance, ecosystem health, and soil quality. He is currently acting as the Secretary General of the African Soil Science Society since 2016.
He holds a PhD degree in soil and environment from the Université Laval (Quebec, Canada), an MSc degree in environmental science from the Université de Sherbrooke (Quebec, Canada), an MSc degree in plant nutrition from Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China), and a bachelor’s degree in soil chemistry and plant nutrition from Zhejiang Agriculture University (Hangzhou, China).
Д-р. Cargele Masso
Integration of biodiversity in agriculture is a high priority for the CGIAR Impact Area Platform on Environmental Health and Biodiversity. Current food systems do not support healthy people and planet. Biodiversity and environmental health are the foundation of climate resilient and sustainable food systems. CGIAR co-develops science driven nature-based solutions that translate into solutions at scale that deliver equitable, nutritious, resilient and biodiverse food systems for all. CGIAR promotes the transition to regenerative landscapes and circular food systems, the protection and restoration of the natural capital, the reduction of environmental pollution related to food systems, and solutions to address the root causes of environmental degradation and biodiversity loss.