Heleene Tambet is a Research Analyst in the Poverty, Gender and Inclusion Unit. She is an economist working on a diverse set of data-driven questions around the sustainability of food systems. At IFPRI, she has been supporting several large multisectoral evaluations, including Strengthen PSNP4 Institutions and Resilience in Ethiopia and mNutrition in Ghana and Tanzania. Her primary interests are agricultural practices and management of farming-related natural resources in the context of climate change. During her graduate studies, Heleene worked on projects that included evaluating economic and environmental impacts of an organic certification scheme and studying adoption of soil and water conservation practices after extreme weather events. She has an MS in International and Development Economics from the University of San Francisco.