Maggie Monast
Maggie works with agriculture financial institutions, food and agriculture companies, land grant universities, farmers and more to create an agricultural system that generates climate stability, clean water, and secure farmer livelihoods. Monast works to quantify the farm financial impacts of climate-smart practice adoption, collaborates with major financial institutions and food companies to develop financial products and other solutions, and identifies policy solutions to facilitate investment and risk management that supports climate-smart agriculture. Maggie has testified to Congress on the agriculture finance sector’s role in reducing climate-related financial risk and serves as co-chair of Field to Market’s Innovative Finance Working Group. Maggie also has extensive experience with corporate collaborations, including guiding the development of the first absolute supply chain greenhouse gas reduction goal by a major livestock company, and collaborating with an agricultural technology and finance company to launch a loan product with a reduced interest rate for farmers who meet environmental standards. Read EDF’s reports and blogs on agriculture finance here: https://business.edf.org/farm-finance/.
Maggie began working with EDF in 2011. She holds a master’s degree in Environmental Management with a focus on economics from Duke University and a Bachelors in Economics and Political Science from Tufts University. She lives in North Carolina with her husband, two children, two dogs and many chickens, where she enjoys gardening and running.
