Dr. Charles Benbrook

Dr. Charles Benbrook is a research professor at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Washington State University.  He is the program leader of “Measure to Manage: Farm and Food Diagnostics for Sustainability and Health.”  His career has focused on developing science-based systems for evaluating the public health, environmental, and economic impacts of changes in agricultural systems, biotechnology, and policy.  He has worked extensively on pesticide use and risk assessment, and the development of biointensive Integrated pest Management.  He played an important role in the evolution of the 1996 “Food Quality Protection Act,” and has produced multiple reports on agricultural biotechnology.