Dr. Landaverde has been an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications at Texas A&M University since 2022. His scholarship bridges applied and theoretical research across the United States, El Salvador, Brazil, Nigeria, and Honduras, where he collaborates with multiple stakeholders to advance sustainability and environmental resilience in agricultural systems. With a strong focus on human behavior, Landaverde’s scholarship informs research, practice, and policy development.

Specializing in the intersection of scientific outreach, agriculture, and change, Dr. Landaverde’s research seeks to enhance agrifood systems through digital innovation, targeted outreach, and capacity building. His work emphasizes behavior-driven strategies that improve the adoption of technologies and foster sustainable transformation in agriculture and natural resources. Additionally, Dr. Landaverde is an expert on formal and non-formal programming development and evaluation for agricultural stakeholders. He pursues an effective and responsive knowledge transfer, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in research methods, program evaluation, and agricultural development. In 2024, he was named a Kika De La Garza Fellow by the United States Department of Agriculture and was an inaugural AI Fellow at Texas A&M’s Center for Teaching Excellence. His research teams have received research accolades from the American Association for Agricultural Education and the National Agricultural Communications Symposium.

In 2025, Dr. Landaverde was appointed as Faculty Fellow at the Texas A&M Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center (HRRC). Also, Dr. Landaverde is the program director for the NextGen NRCS Pros Program funded by the USDA-Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS). The Nature Conservancy and the USDA-National Institute of Food and Agriculture have funded Dr. Landaverde’s scholarship and research. Currently, Dr. Landaverde serves as Secretary of the Association for International Agriculture and Extension Education (AIAEE).