Dr Bruce Campbell is Director of the CGIAR Research Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) (www.ccafs.cgiar.org), a staff member of International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and Senior Advisor to the Global Centre on Adaptation (GCA). He works on adaptation to increased climatic variability and progressive climate change, and on low emissions development. CCAFS started in 2010 and has a budget of c. USD 50-60 million per annum; and operates with staff in more than 20 countries. He was previously based in Zimbabwe, Indonesia and Australia. He has published over 150 journal articles and more than a dozen books.