JUNCTION STRATEGIES
Junction Strategies, LLC, is a consulting firm specializing in agriculture, climate, and environmental policy, as well as supply chain sustainability initiatives. We provide support to trade associations, nonprofits, philanthropic organizations, and companies that are working with farmers and policymakers to build a more regenerative and resilient food and agricultural system.
We believe that collaborative leadership and innovative approaches are needed to meet the challenge of feeding 10 billion people on the planet by mid-century with finite natural resources and a changing climate. Let's work together.
Rod Snyder, Principal & Founder
Rod Snyder is recognized for more than two decades of leadership at the intersection of agriculture and environmental policy. He served in the Biden-Harris Administration from 2021-2024 as Senior Advisor for Agriculture to the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In March 2024, he was named as the first-ever director of EPA’s newly established Office of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
From 2014-2021, Snyder served as president of Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture, which is the largest multi-stakeholder initiative working to advance the sustainability of commodity crop farming in the United States. In this role, he forged science-based consensus among diverse stakeholders across the food and agriculture value chain on complex issues such as climate change, water quality, biodiversity, and pest management. In 2015, Snyder co-founded the Sustainable Agriculture Summit, which has grown to be the largest and most prominent annual sustainable agriculture conference in North America.
Prior to his time at Field to Market, Snyder held positions as Public Policy Director for the National Corn Growers Association and Government Affairs Leader for CropLife America. He has been a longtime champion of agricultural solutions to climate change and has on two occasions organized farmer delegations to participate in UN Climate Summits in Paris and Copenhagen.
In addition, Snyder has held numerous political roles, including two terms as president of the Young Democrats of America (2010-2013) and vice chair of the West Virginia Democratic Party (2020-2021). He has made appearances on MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, CBS News and C-SPAN to offer political analysis and has traveled to Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe to speak on the role of young people in American democracy.
Snyder holds a B.A. in Political Science from Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania and an Executive Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He resides on his family farm in Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia.
