About this video

Cambria Finegold is CABI’s Global Director, Digital Development, leading CABI’s work on harnessing the power of data, knowledge, and ICTs to support the Sustainable Development Goals. Prior to joining CABI, she worked for WorldFish Center (CGIAR) and Oxfam GB, working primarily in Africa and Latin America, and with multidisciplinary research interests weaving together rural livelihoods, nutrition, agricultural value chains, geographic information systems, natural resource governance, and gender.

She is currently leading the Global Burden of Crop Loss, a new initiative that seeks to generate rigorous, authoritative evidence on impacts, causes, and risk factors of crop loss worldwide. As with the Global Burden of Disease initiative in human health and the Global Burden of Animal Diseases in animal health, the aim is to encourage and facilitate evidence-based decision-making to ensure that funding, policy, and research efforts are channeled to where they are most needed.