xxxiv Contributors in Nairobi on food trees for diversified diets and improved nutrition. With the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) she is co- coordinating an international working group on food composition issues. Her research interests include the link between agriculture and food systems for bet- ter nutrition, and the potential of underutilized crops to improve diet quality. Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation provides professional devel- opment, educational resources, and support for schools and early learning centres to deliver pleasurable food education through a kitchen garden programme.
The model teaches students how to grow, harvest, prepare, and share fresh, seasonal, delicious food, establishing positive food habits for life. It is an integrated approach that meets a range of health and well-being, education, and community objectives. Luana Swensson (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United N ations (FAO)) is a legal specialist and serves as an international consultant in the Nutrition and Food Systems Division of FAO.
With 8 years of experience in the development field, her work focusses on multidisciplinary policy-oriented research and technical support for the design and implementation of projects related to sustainable public food procurement and home-grown school feeding programmes. Before joining FAO in 2013 she was a post-doctoral researcher at the European University Institute and managed an international research project funded by the Inter-American Development Bank. She is also a lawyer and has a PhD in economics and business law. Maria Theresa M.
Talavera (University of the Philippines Los Bacos) is an asso- ciate professor at the Institute of Human Nutrition and Food, College of Human Ecology, University of the Philippines Los Bacos. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Nutrition from UPLB and finished her MSc in public health and her Doctor of Public Health (major in nutrition) at the University of the P hilippines Manila. She completed a postgraduate diploma at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Her research work is focussed on infant and young child feeding, nutri- tion in emergencies, school nutrition education, and nutrition programme plan- ning and management.
Salma Talhouk (American University of Beirut; https://orcid.org/0000-0002- 4797-4342) is currently interested in the promotion of community stewardship of natural resources. She is leading a participatory digital mapping project that encourages residents to identify and document natural and cultural landmarks in their towns. She is also conducting urban greening research, investigating the use of native and ecologically adapted plants for roofs and green walls.
Her more recent focus is a project that explores the links between nature and culture by defining na- ture and natural resources as objects of cultural concern providing nonmaterial ser- vices, such as recreation, aesthetic experiences, healing, and spiritual enrichment.