Raquel Ajates Editor

Martin Caraher is Emeritus professor at City St George’s University, London. He has written on UK, EU and global food policy issues and has a specific interest in food inequality and power in the food system. Recent research has focussed on the wider determinants of food inequality via wider social protection measures such as unconditional cash transfers and wider welfare protection measures.

Raquel Ajates is a Tenured Scientist at CSIC (Spain). Previously, she has worked at UNED, Spain, University of Dundee and the Centre for Food Policy at City St George's, University of London. Her research interests include food policy, agroecology, seed governance, cooperatives, citizen science, and STS in food systems.

Laurence Doughan is a Senior Expert in Nutrition policy at the Belgian Federal Public Service for Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment. In the last 25 years, she has worked on the development of strategies and policies to improve the food habits of the Belgian population to reduce the prevalence of overweight, obesity and NCD’s related to food. She is the Belgian Nutrition and Obesity Country Focal Point for WHO-Europe where she is takes an active part in various action networks on reducing food marketing to children, reducing salt consumption, reducing sugar and calory, food taxation, preventing rising iodine deficiency.

Cristina Santini is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at Guglielmo Marconi University (Rome, Italy). Her research focuses on agribusiness, with particular emphasis on small businesses, local development, and innovation management. She has contributed to national and international research projects and regularly publishes in peer-reviewed academic journals.