Andreas Neef is Professor of Resource Governance and Participatory Development at the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. He served twice as scientific advisor to the German Parliament, namely on issues of global food security and on societal and political discourses on the valorization of biodiversity and ecosystem services. He is member of the editorial boards of the journals Agriculture and Human Values, International Journal of the Commons, Law and Development Review and Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture.