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Contents
Professor Graham Riches
Hannah Lambie-Mumford and Tiina Silvasti
Tiina Silvasti and Ville Tikka
Fabian Kessl, Stephan Lorenz and Holger Schoneville
Sabrina Arcuri, Gianluca Brunori and Francesca Galli
Hilje van der Horst, Leon Pijnenburg and Amy Markus
Vesna Leskoek and Romana Zidar
Amaia Inza-Bartolom and Leire Escajedo San-Epifanio
Hannah Lambie-Mumford and Rachel Loopstra
Hannah Lambie-Mumford and Tiina Silvasti
Sabrina Arcuri is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment (DAFE), University of Pisa, Italy. Her research is focused on food (in)security in wealthy countries, the origins, development and governance of urban/local food strategies and sustainable food systems. Sabrinas publications include Food poverty, food waste and the consensus frame on charitable food redistribution in Italy, Agriculture and Human Values, 36: 26375.
Gianluca Brunori is Full Professor of Food Policy at the Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, Italy. His research activity concerns innovation in agriculture and rural areas, the sustainability of food systems, and the role of small farming in rural development and in food security. He is also editor in chief of the journal Agricultural and Food Economics. He has authored and co-authored numerous articles and book chapters on sustainable food systems and food security, including Food waste reduction and food poverty alleviation: a system dynamics conceptual model, Agriculture and Human Values, 36(2): 289300.
Francesca Galli is a research fellow at the Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, Italy. Her research interests are in agricultural economics, food policy, food and nutrition security, food systems and sustainability assessment. In the field of food poverty, Francesca co-authored Food waste reduction and food poverty alleviation: a system dynamics conceptual model, Agriculture and Human Values, 36(2): 289300, and Addressing food poverty in systems: governance of food assistance in three European countries, Food Security, 10: 135370.
Amaia Inza-Bartolom is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Labour Relations and Social Work, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain. She is the coordinator of the Social Work section and the First Vice Dean of the Faculty. Amaias research focuses on social policy and social services, welfare state theory, disabilities and food poverty and food charities. She is the author of the book El secuestro neoliberal del bienestar, es posible la justicia social? (Erasmus Ediciones, 2011) and several publications about social investment and welfare states paradigmatic change.
Fabian Kessl is Professor of Social Work Theories and Methods at the Department of Social Work and Social Policy at University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. His current research interests are in the transformation of the welfare state and welfare state agencies, the everyday life of service users and the institutional change of public services in general. He has published numerous papers and edited international special issues of the European Journal of Social Work (EJSW) and Social Work & Society (SW&S) on Knowledge transfer in social work (2015) and Boundary work (2012).
Hannah Lambie-Mumford is a Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield, UK. Hannahs research focuses on food insecurity, the rise of emergency food provision, the role of public policy and the human right to food. Hannah is the author of Hungry Britain: The rise of food charity (Policy Press, 2018). She is currently leading a British Academy-funded programme of empirical research in Germany, Spain and the UK entitled Changing nature of social care in an era of austerity: the rise of food banks across Europe. Hannah also sits on the Child Poverty Action Groups (CPAGs) Policy Advisory Committee and the Food Standard Agencys (FSAs) Advisory Committee for Social Science.
Vesna Leskoek works at the Faculty of Social Work, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, where she is currently a Dean. Her main research interests are in social inequality and poverty, food poverty, welfare states and child protection. Vesna was an independent expert for poverty and social exclusion at the European Commission from 2004 to 2011. She has also edited and co-authored several scientific monographs and book chapters, including Food poverty between charity and the human right to food: the case of urban gardens in Slovenia, in A.-L. Mathhies and K. Nrhi (eds) The ecosocial transition of societies: The contribution of social work and social policy (Routledge, 2017).
Rachel Loopstra is a Lecturer in Nutrition at Kings College London, UK, and Future Research Leader Fellow at the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Her research is focused on examining how public policies and socio-economic shocks influence vulnerability to food insecurity and food bank usage in the UK and Canada. In collaboration with The Trussell Trust and funded by the Impact Acceleration Account at the University of Oxford, she led a first nationwide household survey of people receiving food from Trussell Trust food banks: Financial insecurity, food insecurity, and disability: the profile of people receiving emergency food assistance from The Trussell Trust Foodbank Network in Britain. She sits on the Oxfam GB UK Programmes Policy Advisory Group.
