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Hallie Eakin received her doctoral degree in Geography and Regional Development in 2002 from the University of Arizona and is now an assistant professor in the Department of Geography of the University of California in Santa Barbara. Her recent research has addressed issues related to economic globalization, agricultural change and rural vulnerability to climate in the context of several comparative international projects involving case studies in Mexico, Argentina, Guatemala and Honduras. Her book, Weathering Risk in Rural Mexico: Climatic, Economic and Institutional Change (2006, University of Arizona Press) focuses on farmers’ changing vulnerability in the context of Mexico’s neoliberal agricultural reforms in the 1990s. Currently Hallie is collaborating with colleagues on a project exploring coffee farmers’ adaptive strategies in Mexico and Central America (Dr. Edwin Castellanos, P.I.), funded by the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. Hallie has also worked as a consultant to the World Bank, the United States Agency for International Development and the United States Environmental Protection Agency on projects related agricultural development, the use of seasonal forecasting in drought risk mitigation, and adaptation to anticipated climate change impacts on urban water availability.