Doug Hertzler, Author at ActionAid USA

Doug Hertzler

Senior Policy Analyst

Doug Hertzler is a Senior Policy Analyst at ActionAid USA. His work focuses on land rights and food security issues in Africa and Central and South America. His portfolio includes monitoring large-scale agricultural investment policies, such as the G7 New Alliance and Grow Africa.

Doug holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Iowa and has conducted research on social movements and land rights in Bolivia. Prior to that he spent over five years living in indigenous smallholder villages in eastern Bolivia where he worked with agro-forestry and other rural development projects.

From 2001 through 2012, he served as a faculty member at Eastern Mennonite University, and as Associate Director of the Washington Community Scholars’ Center.

Doug has a deep personal background in agriculture, having been raised in dairy, corn, soy, and vegetable farming in central Pennsylvania.

Two Years of Arbitrary Detention: The Case of Abelino Chub Caal and Why Indigenous Land Must be Returned

Land for Communities: Fulfilling Human Rights and Protecting the Planet

Palm Oil Roundtable Should Suspend Membership of Groups Undermining Human Rights

U.S. Policies at the Border and Beyond Killed Jakelin Caal

Support the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Rural People to Realize the Right to Food

Connecting Land Rights, Migration and Human Rights on Capitol Hill