Andrew Hutson on Working With Food Businesses to Limit Amazon Deforestation

In Chapter 10 of 23 in his 2014 Capture Your Flag interview, environmental advocate Andrew Hutson answers "How Are You Working With Businesses to Limit Deforestation in the Amazon?" Hutson shares how global population growth and an emerging middle class is driving up demand for food resources. This increasing demand is putting pressure to deforest global and tropical forests such as the Amazon. Hutson and his team build collaborative relationships with large food companies to create best practices to limit if not zero out deforestation in the supply chain to protect the forests and the clean air they produce for the planet. Andrew Hutson is an environmental advocate at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), where he is currently Director, Value Chain Initiatives. Hutson earned a PhD in Public Policy from UNC-Chapel Hill, a Masters in Environment Management (MEM) from Duke University and a BA in International Relations from Michigan State University.

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