Sieglinde Snapp
Program Director of the Sustainable Agrifood Systems Program - CIMMYT, El Batan, Mexico.
Sieglinde Snapp is perhaps best known as the “mother” of the mother and baby trial design, used to engage farmers in development and co-learning about conservation agriculture and crop improvement around the globe. She is Program Director of the Sustainable Agrifood Systems Program at CIMMYT, El Batan, Mexico, and adjunct Professor of Soils and Cropping Systems Ecology at MSU. She leads a team of >100 interdisciplinary scientists working with partners on sustainable intensification, with a $120M portfolio of programs serving smallholder farmers. Snapp pioneered discovery of crop functional diversity and management practices for soil carbon and nitrogen efficiency gains, for climate-resilient, environmentally friendly pathways out of food insecurity. She has published >170 articles, three books, and awarded International Service in Agronomy, Fellow in Agronomy & Soil Sci. Soc. America, MSU’s Beal Outstanding Professor, Academic Advancement Fellow, Hudzik Leader in International Studies & Fulbright Fellow.
