About

Damayanti Buchori is a Professor at the Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Bogor Agricultural University, and also holds the position as Chair of the Center for Transdisciplinary and Sustainability Sciences (CTSS), Bogor Agricultural University. An insect ecologist by training, her work covers teaching, research and community works with various development projects. Damayanti has focused her research on agriculture-conservation issues ranging from pest management, sustainable agriculture, biodiversity conservation and land use change.

In the past 15 years, her work has expanded to landscape approach research where the focus of biodiversity, institution and policy are interlinked. Her interest currently includes science-policy work, ie. how science and policy should be intertwined to produce evidence-based policy that are greatly needed. Damayanti is also active in many international platforms. In 2002-2004, she was a member of the Task Force 7 on Environmental Sustainability of the Millenium Development Goal, United Nations, New York. In 2013-2016, she was one of the lead authors for Pollinators, Pollination and Food Production- an assessment Report by IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services).  She is currently appointed as Lead Co-Chair for Task Force 4 on Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture, for the T20-2022 engagement group, Indonesia