Who we are
The Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-Use, and Energy (FABLE) Consortium is a collaborative initiative created in 2017. FABLE is a global network of researchers who develop national pathways that are consistent with global sustainability objectives, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement targets.
Our Vision
Our vision is collective science-based political action that responds to the pressing global challenges our countries are faced with. We believe that global collaboration between nations can be used to address global goals by recognizing each country’s autonomy, capacity, responsibility, and contribution. We create a collaborative space to support and challenge each other in support of evidence-based decision-making.
Country Teams
FABLE country teams are at the heart of FABLE's mission. Country teams develop national bottom-up pathways for sustainable food and land-use systems that describe the changes needed to achieve mid-century sustainability objectives. They also engage with national governments to promote ambitious sustainable policies.
FABLE Secretariat
The Secretariat is led by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT (the Alliance). The Secretariat provides consortium members with modelling and policy engagement support, and promotes experience sharing across countries.
Aline Mosnier
Scientific Director SDSN
Michael Obersteiner
Scenathon and Global Modelling (Co-founder) IIASA
Valeria Javalera
Scenathon, Linker and Dashboard IIASA
Fabrice DeClerck
Food System Boundaries and Science Policy Interface Alliance Bioversity International - CIAT
Sarah Jones
Agroecology and Biodiversity Alliance Bioversity International - CIAT
Fernando Orduña C.
Scenathon and FABLE Calculator APIs IIASA
Clara Douzal
FABLE Calculator and Global Analysis SDSN
Maria Diaz
Consortium Management SDSN
Davide Cozza
FABLE Calculator and Fair ShareSDSN
Sören Lindner
Agricultural costs and land use IIASA
Marcial Sandoval G.
Linker and Dashboard IIASA
Alejandro Rios-Ochoa
Linker and Dashboard IIASA
Charlotte Chemarin
FABLE Calculator and Global AnalysisAlliance Bioversity International - CIAT
Carolina Navarrete Frias
Stakeholder and Policy EngagementAlliance Bioversity International - CIAT
Andrea Sanchez
Agroecology and Data AnalysisAlliance Bioversity International - CIAT
Federico Frank
FABLE Calculator and Global AnalysisIIASA
Adnane Amane
Trade and Data AnalysisSDSN
Former members of the FABLE Secretariat: Guido Schmidt-Traub (FABLE Co-founder), Marine Formentini, Jordan Poncet, Rudolf Neubauer, Katya Pérez-Guzmán, Frank Sperling, Marcus Thomson, Piero Visconti, Lucie Adenauer, and Yiorgos Vittis.
Advisory Council
The FABLE Advisory Council brings together experts in food and land-use issues to the Consortium to provide critical thinking and strategic direction and oversight. The advisory council consists of FABLE Consortium members (internal) and external experts, all renowned leaders in food and land-use systems, elected by the consortium. They all bring different perspectives, all aimed at moving forward FABLE's mission. The term of Advisory Council members is two years.
Aline Soterroni
University of Oxford
Charlotte Gonzalez-Abraham
Independent
Jessica Fanzo
Columbia University
Zitouni Ould-Dada
FAIRR, Sustainable investment in agrifood systems
Claudia Ringler
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Hisham Zerrifi
University British Columbia
Hermann Lotze-Campen
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Former members of the Advisory Council: Alison Smith, Federico Frank, Namukolo Covic, Line Gordon, Thomas Hertel, Gordon McCord, and Vartika Singh.
Technical Partners
The technical partners are the core modeling teams who share their models with Consortium members and provide support for their adaptation to the national context. Currently, these are the modeling teams from Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) MAgPIE and IIASA GLOBIOM.
Global Biosphere Management Model (GLOBIOM)
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Model of Agricultural Production and its Impact on the Environment (MAgPIE)
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Our Supporters
The FABLE Consortium is grateful for the generous financial support from many supporters, including CGIAR Nexus Gains Initiative, the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF); Die Internationale Klimaschutzinitiative (IKI), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; the William, Jeff and Jennifer Gross Family Foundation; the MAVA Foundation; Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI); the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida); the Swedish Postcode Lottery Foundation (Svenska Postkod Stiftelsen); the World Resources Institute (WRI); and Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología of Mexico. Many others have provided direct assistance to members of the FABLE country teams.
Aline Mosnier is the Scientific Director for the FABLE Consortium. She works with country teams to develop rigorous quantitative national pathways towards sustainable land use and food systems by 2050.
Prior to joining SDSN, Aline worked at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) where she contributed to the development of the global partial equilibrium model GLOBIOM. In particular, her work focused on international trade in agricultural products, indirect impacts of biofuel policies, climate change impacts on agriculture, and deforestation and forest degradation in the tropics. With teams from local research institutes, she has worked on the co-development of regional versions of GLOBIOM in the Congo Basin, Brazil and Indonesia. Finally, she has developed the FABLE calculator, a simplified country-Excel-based accounting tool on the food and land system.
Aline holds a PhD in Agricultural and Environment Economics from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences of Vienna and a master's in development economics from CERDI-Université d'Auvergne of Clermont-Ferrand.
Michael Obersteiner is the Director of the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, and Project Director of the FABLE Consortium. His research experience stretches from biophysical modelling in the areas of ecosystems, forestry and agriculture to economics, finance, and integrated assessment.
Professor Obersteiner joins the institute from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), where he was the Director of the Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM) Program. His background includes the fields of global terrestrial ecosystems and economics, having completed graduate studies both in Austria (BOKU University and Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna) and abroad (Columbia University, New York and Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk).
Under his leadership several national and international organizations, including inter alia the European Commission, WWF, OECD, and other national and international institutions have received science-based policy advice using quantitative modelling techniques. He is author of over 250 scientific papers and is a highly cited researcher - ranking in the top 1% of citations in the Web of Science according to Clarivate research.
Valeria Javalera holds a PhD (cum laude) in Automatic and Robotics from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia Spain, an MSc in Computer Science, and an Engineering degree in Computer Systems from the Technological Institute of Hermosillo, Mexico. Her research focuses on developing Machine Learning (ML) algorithms for multi-objective and multi-agent optimization problems where a Pareto optimum is needed.
As a researcher at IIASA's Ecosystems Services and Management program, she manages and develops the Linker platform. The Linker platform is a tool that links land-use models from more than 24 regions/countries participating in the FABLE Consortium. She coordinates the collaboration between the country teams to align their countries' land-use planning through sustainable international trade, to meet the SDGs.
Previously, she was a research assistant at the Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics where she developed algorithms based on ML to optimize distributed Large-Scale Systems. She was an associate professor at the Higher Technological Institute of Cajeme and has more than fifteen years of teaching experience at graduate and undergraduate level.
Fabrice DeClerck holds a joint appointment with Bioversity International and the EAT Foundation. He leads innovative and synthetic food systems research using systems-based approaches to set clear science targets for healthy and sustainable foods systems. Using global targets, he works closely with multiple networks to drive uncommon collaborations between disciplines (agriculture, environment, health) and domains (science, business, policy) for food systems transformations.
His research emphasizes the critical role those agricultural ecosystems play in supporting sustainable development goals, and the role of agricultural diversity both in underpinning healthy diets, as well as sustainability. This same research has demonstrated that while agriculture is the current driver of increasingly poor dietary health and environmental degradation globally, a systems-based approach working across domains and disciplines can transform agriculture into the primary driver of health and sustainability.
Fabrice has regularly contributed articles to peer-reviewed journals spanning environment, agriculture, and health. He is a contributing author to the EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems, The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity for Agriculture and Food reports, and both Africa and Global IPBES Assessments.
Sarah is a Scientist in the Multifunctional Landscapes team at the Alliance of BI-CIAT in Montpellier, France. She is part of the FABLE secretariat supporting country teams develop policy-responsive methodologies to integrate biodiversity conservation and sustainable agricultural production into national development plans.
Sarah’s research seeks to understand how to diversify farms and landscapes to produce nutritious food in an ecologically and socially sustainable way. Alongside FABLE, Sarah is part of the OneCGIAR Transformational Agroecology and NexusGains initiatives, and EU-funded Agroecology Transitions project. Through these projects she is working with partners in several countries (Burkina Faso, India, Kenya, Laos, Peru, Tunisia, Vietnam, Zimbabwe) to monitor the agronomic, ecologic, economic and social performance of farming practices and to identify effective mechanisms for scaling biodiversity-friendly, socially sustainable and climate-resilient agricultural production systems.
Sarah holds a PhD in Sustainable Agricultural Intensification from King’s College London and a Master’s in GIS and Remote Sensing from The University of Cambridge.
Fernando Orduña-Cabrera is a NOVEL and EM research group member in the ASA program at IIASA.
He studied computer science engineering and Master of Science in Computer Science at the National Technological Institute of México (NTI), and his Artificial Intelligence Ph.D. at the Polytechnic University of Catalunya. He was a titular professor at the NTI campus Cajeme for 15 years. He was the coordinator of the Advanced Research Center and a member of the postgrad council board. The General Direction University Education awarded him a researcher and teaching profile in México.
He has experience developing machine learning algorithms. He has recently collaborated in FABLE Secretariat, developing tools to manage, analyze, and improve the FABLE tools such as the Scenathon and Calculator. Also, a collaborator in developing the intelligent linker tool to harmonize commodities' trade in the FABLE Consortium. His research interest includes machine learning, clustering, and the development of decision support systems. The implementation of AI techniques to support decision-making.
Clara Douzal is a research analyst for the FABLE Consortium, working within the SDSN Secretariat based in Paris. Her primary focus revolves around enhancing the FABLE Calculator and developing innovative tools that streamline the FABLE methodology. Clara actively contributes to the processing of global spatial and non-spatial datasets, refines the trade adjustments methodology in the FABLE Scenathon, and contributes to the development of new modules, with a specific emphasis on crop productivity.
Prior to joining SDSN in 2019, Clara was a biostatistician for Pierre Fabre dermo-cosmetics. Clara holds a Master of Science in Statistics and Econometrics and a BA in Economics and Mathematics from the Toulouse School of Economics.
Maria Diaz is Manager of the FABLE Consortium, based at Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), in Paris. She supports the FABLE Secretariat coordinating the consortium's activities, supporting stakeholder engagement, fundraising, knowledge generation, and policy outreach.
Before joining SDSN, Maria worked at the International Chamber of Commerce as Project Manager for the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation. Maria was responsible of ensuring private sector engagement in the implementation of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement. Previously, she worked at Emerging Ag., providing communications and public affairs services to agri-food businesses at the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS). She also worked at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) focusing on private sector engagement in global governance on food and nutrition security.
Maria holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science from Central University of Venezuela and a Master's in International Development from Sciences Po Paris. Originally from Venezuela, she speaks Spanish, English, and French.
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Sören Lindner is a research scholar in the Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems Research Group of the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program. His research interest lies in understanding the socioeconomic implications of global food and land use transitions, in particular for the agricultural sector.
As part of the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land, and Energy (FABLE) Consortium, he works on further developing the agricultural costing model, a country-based cost calculator for agricultural and livestock production integrated in the FABLE calculator. The work is motivated by quantifying macro-economic costs for the agriculture sector associated with different diet scenarios and transition pathways.
Prior to his position at IIASA, Lindner worked at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission in Ispra, Italy. As part of that role, he worked mainly with the CAPRI model, while leading a project focusing on emissions from land-use change.
Lindner holds a PhD in Environmental Economics from the University of Cambridge and is Fellow of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy, and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG).
Marcial Sandoval Gastelum holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in México and has over five years of experience working in the field of artificial intelligence. After completing his studies, he worked as research assistant focused on recognizing human actions using inertial data and computer vision techniques. Throughout his research experience, he has gained expertise in various deep learning architectures used in computer vision and natural language processing.
As a researcher in the Exploratory Modeling Of Human-Natural Systems (EM) group at IIASA, he collaborates on developing visualization tools and enhancements to the SmartLinker, a machine learning algorithm for commodities trading within the FABLE consortium. In addition, he also contributes to the Scenathon website as a fullstack developer.
Jesus Alejandro Rios Ochoa, has a Master's Degree in Mechatronic Engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico Superior de Cajeme in Mexico. After completing his studies, he worked as a high school teacher specializing in Computer Science and Mechatronics.
As a researcher in the Exploratory Modeling of Human-Natural Systems (EM) group at IIASA, he is helping to develop the SmartLinker tool, a machine learning algorithm for commodity trading within the FABLE consortium. In addition, he also contributes to the Scenathon website, the Fable Consortium website, and the Scenathon app website as a developer.
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Federico Frank is part of the Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems (EM) team in IIASA, focusing on the development of integrative models of different complexity to understand complex feedbacks in human-natural systems, particularly through the FABLE calculator.
Prior to joining IIASA, he was a researcher in INTA, the National Institute for Agricultural Technology and in Fundación Bariloche, as well as graduate and post-graduate teacher in Universidad Nacional de La Pampa and other universities from Argentina. Federico specializes in the causes, consequences and adaptation and mitigation strategies for Climate Change at the regional, national and global scale. Also, modelling of agricultural and food systems, land use, ecosystem services, and the environmental impacts of agriculture.
Federico holds a degree and MSc. in Natural Resources, and a PhD. in Agricultural Sciences and has authored and contributed to several publications in his field of work.
Adnane Amane serves as a Junior Trade Analyst at FABLE, contributing to the adaptation of multi-regional, multi-product spatial equilibrium models for global trade adjustments using frameworks developed during Scenathon 2023. Previously, Adnane worked as a Junior Economist at the OECD’s Sahel and West Africa Club, where he conducted in-depth analyses on intra-regional food trade dynamics in West Africa, utilizing datasets such as BACI and ECO-ICBT. His experience also includes contributing to strategic studies on the economic impacts of avian flu on French poultry trade at Club Demeter.
Adnane holds a Master of Research (MREs) in International Economics, Macroeconomic Policies, and Business Cycle from the University of Paris Nanterre.
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Hermann Lotze-Campen is an agricultural economist and Head of Research Department 2 "Climate Resilience" at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). He is also a Professor of Sustainable Land Use and Climate Change at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Hermann has a Master's degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Kiel and the University of Reading (England). For his doctoral studies he stayed in Kiel, at the University of Minnesota (USA), and at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where he received his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics in 1998. In 2001 Hermann joined PIK, where he developed a global land use modelling framework for assessments of the interplay between climate impacts, global food and bioenergy demand, agricultural land and water use, trade, and the environment.