Addressing the societal problems of climate change and food insecurity will depend on bringing innovations in renewable energy and food production to market. For David Zilberman, Robinson Chair of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, "our biggest challenge is to change the economy here and across the world, to move to a renewable system, to develop new supply chains that won't rely on fossil fuel and that will be able to provide resources to the poor and everyone else." Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019, Zilberman has spent his career applying the lens of economics to agricultural issues such as irrigation, pesticide use, and genetically modified organisms. In his Inaugural Article, Zilberman examines the road from innovation to market, focusing on how policies and technologies affect the creation of supply chains (1).
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