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Simon Croft

Research Fellow

SEI York,
Role(s): Research Fellow
Expertise: Supply chain mapping; Material Flow Analysis; MRIO modelling; Food systems; Impact assessments; Stochastic modelling
simon.croft@sei.org
+44 7552 285896

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Simon Croft is a mathematician and modeller who joined SEI in 2012, working as part of the Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) group at SEI York. He works predominantly on the modelling of supply chains and commodity flows of agri-goods and food, including the development of SEI’s Input-Output Trade Analysis (IOTA) model and associated indicators, and on the Trase platform.

His work on understanding the pathways between production and consumption allows for the linkage of consumption activities and behaviour through to the impacts and risks they drive at the point of origin, including deforestation and land use change, habitat destruction and biodiversity loss and social issues like gender equity and modern slavery.

Simon completed his MMath (Master of Mathematics in Mathematics) degree at the University of York. He then moved to the Biology department and worked within the YCCSA multidisciplinary research group to study for his PhD in theoretical ecology, studying the impacts of resource and neighbourhood heterogeneity on plant growth and competition via stochastic processes.

Publications by Simon Croft

Assessing tropical deforestation and biodiversity risk in Belgium's agricultural commodity supply chains
Impacts of climate change on global food trade networks
New methods and indicators supporting policies for sustainable consumption
Beyond deforestation: water use in global agricultural commodity supply chains
Europe's cross-border trade, human security and financial connections: A climate risk perspective

Perspectives by Simon Croft

The right to food: a global cry for urgent action towards sustainable food systems
Three steps to understanding how food consumption impacts biodiversity

Featured stories with Simon Croft

Supporting Swedish sustainability goals with new methods and indicators for consumption
Q&A: Introducing the Commodity Footprints dashboard
Sustainable production meets sustainable consumption
New project explores how to secure the UK’s food future
Q&A: Chris West and Simon Croft on contributing to the Living Planet Report 2016

Projects and tools with Simon Croft

Commodity Footprints
Global data on transboundary climate risks in agricultural commodity flows
Trase
CASCADES
GCRF Trade, Development and the Environment (TRADE) Hub

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