Food

Our researchers are examining the health and well-being of populations from global food politics to urban poverty and gender development.

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Food

Advancing five Sustainable Development Goals

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Our researchers

Jennifer Clapp

School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability

  • Global Food Politics Group
  • Waterloo Food Issues Group
  • Global political economy of food
  • Food security and sustainability – policy and governance
  • International trade in food and agriculture
  • Corporate concentration in the global food system
  • The intersection of food and financial markets

Andrea Collins

School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability

  • Global land and agricultural governance
  • Gender, development, and global political economy
  • Gender and environmental politics
  • Transnational agricultural investment
  • Public-private partnerships in agriculture and nutrition

Bruce Frayne

School of Environment, Enterprise and Development

  • Sustainable cities and urban poverty
  • The three related areas of human migration, urbanization and food security
  • A regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Can also supervise graduate students in Geography and Environmental Management

Leia Minaker

School of Planning

  • Food environment assessment

  • Population and public health
  • Population health intervention research
  • Food access in cities and planning for healthy food access
  • Social determinants of health

Steffanie Scott

Geography and Environmental Management 

  • Agro-food system sustainability
  • Small-scale producers
  • Local food systems
  • Organic and ecological food production
  • China, East Asia, Canada
  • Food systems and sustainability

  • Can also supervise graduate students in the School of Planning

Helena Shilomboleni

School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability

  • Agriculture and food security 
  • Climate resilient agriculture 
  • Scaling innovations in food and agricultural systems 
  • A regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa