Edward Walters

Currently working as an agricultural technical advisor in the CRS Humanitarian Response Department, Ed is an agricultural economist with over 25 years of experience in the developing world. His work currently focuses on post-emergency livelihood recovery and resilience.

He has run agroforestry programs in Haiti, Comoros, Mali and Guatemala, and served as a regional agricultural technical advisor in Guatemala and Madagascar prior to his current position. He has led a number of studies ranging from value chain studies, livelihood assessments, post emergency market assessments, emergency response modality studies and Seed System Security assessments. Additional studies with S34D have examined the impacts of emergency seed provision and effects of seed fairs on both farmer participants and seed markets. He has been the prime developer of the Rapid Seed System Security Assessment toolkit in collaboration with the global Food Security Cluster. He currently lives on the family farm in Virginia with his wife, Sheri.