Gordon Prain is a social anthropologist and independent consultant who advises Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research (CGIAR) Centers on issues related to urban and rural food systems and food security, gender, and agricultural change processes. Most recently he has been advising a team of CGIAR researchers in the preparation of a global initiative on the contribution of urban and peri-urban agri-food systems to city resilience.
He spent 10 years as the Global Coordinator for the CGIAR Program on urban and peri-urban agriculture known as Urban Harvest, which undertook collaborative R&D to strengthen vegetable and livestock systems and address environmental and policy challenges in the Global South.
As a research leader with the CGIAR’s International Potato Center, he worked with research teams in Bangladesh, India, and the Philippines on strengthening the contribution of root and tuber and other horticultural crops to food resilience in different types of agri-food systems in Asia.