Jane Battersby
Food Security
Governance & Policy
Local Food SystemsThis page is automatically translated from the English original using DeepL and may contain errors.
Jane Battersby is a member of the IPES-Food panel, an urban geographer with an interest in all things food, and associate professor at the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her current areas of interest are urban food systems, urban food policies and governance – with a focus on African cities.
She was awarded the Premio Daniel Carasso laureate in 2017 for her work on food system sustainability. She is actively engaged in international, national, provincial and local government policy processes in an advisory or consultative position. She also works with community groups to increase agency in local food system governance.
She serves on the advisory boards of several international research projects, has served as a member of the Independent Expert Group of the Global Nutrition Report, is leading a report on strengthening urban and peri-urban food systems at the UN High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) – where she was also a team member on its Reducing Inequalities for Food Security and Nutrition report. Jane holds a DPhil from Oxford University.
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