Dr. Dennis Garrity
Chairman
EverGreening Alliance
Dr. Dennis Garrity is a systems agronomist and research leader whose career has focused on improving small-scale farming systems in the tropics. He has been serving as Drylands Ambassador for the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, emphasizing the role of agroforestry, evergreen agriculture and landcare for sustainable land management. From 2001 to 2011, he served as Director General of the World Agroforestry Centre. He is currently Chair of the Board of the Global EverGreening Alliance, a partnership to restore hundreds of millions of hectares of degraded land and enhance the livelihoods of millions of the smallholder farm families in the tropics.