Food Chain - Issue 201 - August 2024 | Page 10

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Food for thought

Professor Roberta Sonnino champions collaboration as the key to making food systems more sustainable

I joined the University of Surrey a little over two years ago as Professor of Sustainable Food Systems . My first 19 years in the UK were spent at Cardiff University where I directed the Research Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Food in the School of Geography and Planning . Prior to that , I was in the States doing a PhD in anthropology on a Fulbright scholarship . I consider myself a political geographer of food , have over 100 publications to my name and have dedicated my whole career to this topic ,” Professor Roberta Sonnino begins .

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