Molly Anderson
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Molly Anderson is a member of the IPES-Food panel, and a specialist in hunger, food systems, and multi-actor collaborations for sustainability, who has created interdisciplinary academic programmes and participated in local and regional food system planning. She holds the William R. Kenan Jr. Chair in Food Studies at Middlebury College, Vermont, where she teaches on hunger and food security, food policy, and sustainability.
She is especially interested in food system resilience, human rights in the food system, the right to food in the US, and the transition to a post-petroleum food economy. She also works to bridge the interests and concerns of academics, NGOs and community-based activists. She is involved in food system planning at local, state and regional scales, and participates in the national Inter-Institutional Network for Food, Agriculture & Sustainability, and the regional Food Solutions New England network. She has worked as a consultant for domestic and international organizations such as Oxfam America, and was the founding director of the Agriculture, Food and Environment Graduate Program in the School of Nutrition Science & Policy at Tufts University, where she also directed its Institute of the Environment for two years.
She earned a Ph.D. in Systems Ecology from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a B.S. and M.S. in natural resource management and a certificate in Latin American Studies from Colorado State University.
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