Catherine McCosker

Head of Agriculture and Landscapes

Catherine McCosker is the Head of Agriculture and Landscapes at 3Keel. A former farmer herself, she’s especially passionate about amplifying the farmer voice within supply chains. Catherine specialises in farmer engagement and support, soil health and regenerative agriculture, and nature-based solutions in an agricultural/production context (including biodiversity and carbon removals). She has worked with a range of clients across the sector and supply chain, including Nestle, innocent drinks, Oatly, Asahi, McCain, John Lewis Partnership, Environment Agency, Defra, The National Trust, The Wildlife Trusts, WWF, WRAP, Anglian Water, and United Utilities. Catherine also supports the facilitation and delivery of 3Keel’s Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs) projects and currently provides strategic and technical advice to the Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) programme.

Before joining 3Keel in 2014, Catherine spent seven years working on and managing small- and medium-scale farms in the United States, including dairy, horticulture, and small livestock. While she still misses getting her boots muddy every day, she doesn’t miss the below-freezing early dawns! She then went on to complete an MSc in Evidence-Based Social Intervention at the University of Oxford and worked as a researcher as SOAS, where she co-authored a Campbell systematic review on the socio-economic effects of sustainability standards. She maintains a small piece of her agricultural background as a trustee at the Oxford City Farm, where she gets to milk goats once a week.