Caroline de Souza Cruz Salomão

Caroline Salomão is an interdisciplinary professional with a BSc in natural and social sciences, a master's in Modeling and Analysis of Environmental Systems and a PhD in Sanitation, Environment, and Water Resouces. Over the past decade, she has worked extensively on land use and land cover change, sustainable agricultural systems and agri-food supply chains (including bioeconomy), water resource management, carbon accounting, ecological restoration, and ecosystem services. Her work also critically examines policies, trades agreements, governance and financial frameworks aimed at improving the sustainable use and value of land, forest, and water resources. Caroline's approach combines geoinformatics, remote sensing, and qualitative-multi-method research. In addition to generating science, she focuses on communicating and engaging with diverse stakeholders (farmers, private companies, financial institutions, and government agencies). Her research and applied work have spans Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and more recently, Paraguay. Caroline currently works at the Thünen Institute, a federal research institute of the German Ministry of Food and Agriculture.