Associate Research Scientist, Yale School of the Environment
Field:
Expertise:
Climate, agriculture, smallholders, coffee, forest
Description:
J. Nicolas Hernandez-Aguilera (Nico) research focused on smallholders, forests, and climate. In particular, he has evaluated the impact of direct business models in tropical crops like coffee and modeled profitable agroecological cropping systems to incentivize bird and forest conservation. More recently, he has designed digital tools and games to motivate and scale smallholders’ generation, translation, and use of climate and land management information, improving climate risk adaptation strategies and land-use practices based on smallholders’ real context and needs.