Aijuan Chen

Policy Analyst

a34chen@gmail.com
416-363-6441, ext. 241

Aijuan Chen is currently with Strategic Policy Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC). As a Policy Analyst, her research areas include organic agriculture, farm structure, farm performance, intergenerational farm transfer, and Indigenous people in Canadian agriculture sector. Prior to AAFC, she worked as an Analyst at Statistics Canada for one year, with a focus on data collection and data analysis in the Commodity Section.

Aijuan Chen received her PhD degree in Human Geography at the University of Waterloo with a focus on ecological agriculture and sustainable community development. After graduation, Aijuan joined FoodShare Toronto in 2015 as an Evaluation and Communication Manager. With FoodShare, she led a large-scale evaluation project to study the impact of FoodShare programs on poverty alleviation and community development.

Prior to her doctoral research in Canada, Aijuan Chen received her Master's degree in Sociology at Nanjing University, China.