Laura Reynolds, Research Associate

Contact Information
Title: Research Associate
Email: lreynolds@worldwatch.org
Phone: +1 (202) 745-8092, ext. 528

Research Associate

Laura Reynolds joined the Worldwatch Institute staff in 2012 and is a staff researcher with the food and agriculture program. Laura has written extensively for the Worldwatch website and has been published in news outlets including the Christian Science Monitor, Inter Press Service, China Daily, the Jakarta Globe, and Kenya’s Daily Nation. She is also the author of Worldwatch Vital Signs reports, including meat production and livestock populations.

Laura received a B.A. in 2010 from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where she studied Modern History and Philosophy. Laura wrote her senior thesis on the impact of British imperial rule on the forests of India. Laura has completed research internships at the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition and Humane Society International. She has also worked on a goat farm in Oregon, volunteered at a school in Panama, sold produce at farmers markets in Washington, D.C., and apprenticed on an organic vegetable farm in Sperryville, Virginia.

 

Selected Publications

Agriculture and Livestock Remain Major Sources of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, in Vital Signs 2013 (Worldwatch, 2013)
 
Organic Agriculture Contributes to Sustainable Food Security, in Vital Signs 2013 (Worldwatch, 2013), co-authored with Catherine Ward
 
 
 
Climate-Friendly Agriculture and Renewable Energy: Working Hand-in-Hand toward Climate Mitigation (RenwableEnergyWorld.com, 2012), co-authored with Sophie Wenzlau
 
Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture: Supporting Climate-Friendly Food Production, Worldwatch Report #188 (Worldwatch, 2012), co-authored with Danielle Nierenberg
 
Disease and Drought Curb Meat Production and Consumption, in Vital Signs 2012 (Worldwatch, 2012), co-authored with Danielle Nierenberg