CAUSE Food security and food sovereignty for all
Growing up in New Jersey, Alexa White spent time in the backyard with her grandfather growing figs and other fruits and vegetables, and experimenting with different seeds to see what would grow. Today, she is an agroecologist, a climate advocate, a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan, and the recipient of the WWF-US 2020 Conservation Leadership Award. The award celebrates the work of young environmental leaders and comes with a financial prize to further each recipient’s professional and educational goals.
White’s work explores the relationship between international governance, agriculture, food security, and food sovereignty the right of people to agricultural self-determination and to healthy, culturally appropriate, sustainable food. Her research focuses on how farmers and policy-makers communicate and “the power differentials that influence policy.” Her aim, she says, is to “uplift farmers’ voices.”
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