Catherine Badgely is the author of an important study proposing that organic farming might work as well as present-day techniques to feed the world. She is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Michigan/Ann Arbor. Although her primary expertise is in paleontology and she is the president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, a long-standing interest in biodiversity led her to study the impacts of agriculture on biodiversity, and to evaluate alternate scenarios to the current food system.