CHERRIE ATILANO is the Founding Farmer, CEO and President of AGREA Agricultural SystemInternational, Inc., a for-purpose and inclusive business, that is creating the first replicable one-islandeconomy that is zero hunger, zero waste, and zero insufficiency, - through the ‘Ecology of Dignity’approach. AGREA aims to help eradicate poverty for farming and fishing families in order to alleviate theeffects of climate change, and establish food security in the Philippines.Cherrie started teaching farmers at the age of 12, has 22 years of vast experience in Sustainable FoodSystems. She graduated top of her class - Magna Cum Laude at the Visayas State University, with a BS inAgriculture, Major in Horticulture specializing on tissue culture.Cherrie is a recipient of national and global awards. Seasoned agribusiness entrepreneur, agricultural scientist, philanthropist, youth and women advocate. A staunch environmental preservationist and conservationist. The Outstanding Women in Nation’s Service Award in 2016, Inspiring FilipinaEntrepreneur in 2017, first Awardee of Women of the Future Social Entrepreneur in SouthEast Asia, andThe Outstanding Men and Women of the Philippines 2018. Cherrie also led AGREA in winning the UNGlobal Compact the Global Responsible Business Award 2017 for Agriculture Excellence, and the 4thASEAN Rural Poverty Eradication Leadership Awards in 2019. She is a High-Level Ambassador of theUnited Nations Scaling Up Nutrition, an Advisory Board member of the World Bank Solutions for YouthEmployment, 2020 class of the Young Global Leaders (YGL) - the World Economic Forum’s foundation forremarkable leaders under 40, and a Board Member of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)based in Geneva Switzerland.She is also one of the United Nations Food Systems Champions and the Philippines Department of Agriculture Food Security Ambassador.She has been featured in national and global news portal, prints and digital.