Eric Rahn

Eric Rahn is a scientist specializing in cropping and farming systems analysis, with a particular focus on coffee and cacao within the context of climate-resilient agriculture. Since 2018, he has worked with the Alliance in collaboration with various national and international private and public sector partners across Latin America, West and East Africa, and Southeast Asia. His research focuses on identifying innovative coffee and cacao systems that leverage genetic and functional plant diversity and principles of circularity to design multifunctional agroecosystems that enhance both farmers' livelihoods and ecosystem services. His work aims to advance agricultural advisory approaches that respond to local agroecological and socio-economic conditions, taking into account dynamic drivers at different spatial scales, including resource availability, price volatility, and climatic variability. Eric also explores how digital tools can support improved data collection, predictive analytics, and scenario planning to enable decision support in tropical perennial agroecosystems.