sdscott@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567, ext. 47012
Location: Environment 1-114, University of Waterloo
Steffanie Scott is a Professor in the Department of Geography & Environmental Management in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo in Canada. She is past president of the Canadian Association for Food Studies, and is engaged in research on sustainable food systems in China and Canada. Her current research examines the different pathways to ecological agriculture development in Nanjing, China, including both industrialized large-scale and small scale entrepreneurial ecological food production and related initiatives. Her research has documented the emergence of the ecological agriculture sector and alternative food networks in China. She is also researching the urban food system and urban food security in Nanjing, China through the Hungry Cities Partnership. With Zhenzhong Si, she co-founded the LinkedIn group, China’s Changing Food System.
Steffanie is a board member and past co-chair of the Waterloo Region Food System Roundtable, and co-founder of the Waterloo Food Issues Group. She supervises graduate students in Geography & Environmental Management as well as in Economic Development and Innovation, Environment, Resources and Sustainability and Planning. Steffanie has also supervised research on local food systems and local economic development in Ontario. Steffanie Scott's doctoral research in the late 1990s examined livelihood vulnerability and access to land among female-headed households and ethnic minorities in the northern uplands of Vietnam.
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