xxvi Contributors Anthea Fawcett (Remote Indigenous Gardens Network, The EduGrow School Garden Awards and Foodswell Limited) has worked in sustainable design, pol- icy advocacy, social innovation, and research roles for over 25 years. A farmer’s daughter, she believes in building resilience and co-designed solutions, and sup- porting everyone’s right to food security and sovereignty. She possesses academic qualifications in history and critical theory; is a member of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leaders programme; and currently works with Vast Solar, an Australian renewable energy technology company.
She is the founder of the Remote Indig- enous Gardens Network, The EduGrow School Garden Awards, and Foodswell Limited. Bruce G. Ferguson (Departamento de Agricultura, Sociedad y Ambiente, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico; http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3963-2024) (MS, PhD, University of Michigan) is researcher and professor in the Agricul- ture, Society and the Environment Department at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur in San Cristybal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. His current research and teach- ing explore agroecology, food systems, and critical pedagogy.
Together with Helda Morales, he coordinates Laboratorios para la Vida , a programme that trains educators in garden- and food system-based education. He is also part of a re- search group focussed on scaling out agroecology for more just and sustainable food systems. He is associate editor of Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems . Agnes Gachuiri (World Agroforestry (ICRAF)) holds an MSC in ecology and environmental science, and works with World Agroforestry (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya, as research technician. Her research interest is in agricultural biodiversity, tree domestication, sustainable agriculture, and rural development.
She under- takes both participatory research and adaptive research with various projects and partners. Andrea Polo Galante (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)) is a senior nutrition consultant for FAO in the Nutrition and Food Systems Division, engaged in providing advice and expertise on main- streaming nutrition, specifically in food value chains and home-grown school feeding programmes. Previously, she was the President of the Brazilian Nutrition Association and worked closely with the biggest initiative to date by the Brazilian government to combat hunger.
She has over 25 years of research consulting and management experience, particularly in the areas of policy and knowledge dis- semination. She holds a master’s and a PhD in nutrition sciences from University of Sao Paulo Brazil. Hala Ghattas (American university of Beirut) has focussed in her research on the biological, social, and structural determinants of maternal and child health and nutrition in low-resource settings and marginalized populations. Her research includes mixed-methods studies of food insecurity experience, barriers to