Assessing and Mitigating the Food Security Consequences of COVID-19 in China; (2020-22), Co-applicant

SSHRC New Frontiers in Research Fund—Rapid Response

Using Agroecology to Advance Sustainable Development Goals in China: Pathways of Transition Towards a Sustainable Food System; (2019-21)

SSHRC Partnership Development Grant

Pathways of Transition Towards a Sustainable Food System: Scaling Out Agroecology Practices in China (2017-18)

University of Waterloo International Partnership Research Grant

Hungry Cities: governance, rapid urbanization and urban food security in the Global South; (2014-19), Co-applicant

SSHRC-IDRC Partnership Grant

Cross-sector Solutions to Grand Challenges in China; (2017-18), Co-applicant

Cultivating pathways to ecological agriculture: Rural-urban interfaces and regional dynamics in the agri-food sector in Nanjing, China; (2016-21)

SSHRC Insight Grant

Understanding Interactions Among Policy Initiatives Aimed at Improving Food-Related Health Outcomes: Implications for Chronic Disease Prevention; (2014-15), Co-applicant

U of Waterloo Chronic Disease Prevention Initiative Seed Grant

Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement; Co-researcher; (2011-18), Co-applicant

SSHRC Partnership Grant

Evaluating Regional Development Initiatives: Understanding the challenges for rural communities in Ontario; Co-researcher; (2011-13), Co-applicant

Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs

Organic and ecological agriculture, ecological modernization, and the developmental state in China; (2010-13)

SSHRC Standard Research Grant

Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability: Understanding Urban-Rural Linkages in Regional Economic Development Initiatives; (2011-12), Co-researcher

Economic Developers’ Council of Ontario

Challenges of Agrarian Transition in Southeast Asia; (2005-10), Co-researcher

SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) Major Collaborative Research Initiative

Activities and Societies: Latin American Studies & Geography

University of Waterloo Faculty of Environment

Sustain Ontario

Canadian Organic Growers

Organic Council of Ontario

 Canadian Association of Food Studies 

Waterloo Region Food System Roundtable

Multifunctionality and agrarian transition in alternative agro‐food production in the global South: The case of organic shrimp certification in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

The convergence of alternative food networks within “rural development” initiatives: the case of the New Rural Reconstruction Movement in China

Characterizing alternative food networks in China

Assessing the social and economic benefits of organic and fair trade tea production for small-scale farmers in Asia: a comparative case study of China and Sri Lanka

The transformation of trust in China’s alternative food networks: disruption, reconstruction, and development

Beyond ‘voting with your chopsticks’: Community organizing for safe food in China (with Theresa Schumilas)

Food, Health, and Complexity: Towards a Conceptual Understanding to Guide Collaborative Public Health Action

Upstream determinants of immigrant food security: Exploring the food environment in the Region of Waterloo, Ontario (with Paulina Rodriguez, Dean J, Kirkpatrick S, Berbary L)

The Urban Food System of Nanjing (with Zhenzhong Si, with Jonathan Crush, and Taiyang Zhong)

Steffanie Scott is co-investigator on a study of the food security consequences of COVID-19 and countermeasures in China and Canada. Dr Scott’s reputation as a leading international scholar on food security and food system change in China is confirmed by the recent release of her co-authored book, Organic Food and Farming in China: Top-down and Bottom Up Ecological Initiatives. She led the Canadian Association for Food Studies (2012-14) and was inaugural co-chair of the Waterloo Region Food System Roundtable. She co-founded the LinkedIn group, “China’s Changing Food System” and teaches on sustainable food systems and development studies. Steffanie is principal investigator for several research projects on China's Changing Food System, Ecological Agriculture in China, and Our Food Future--Waterloo Region.

COVID-19 (Coronavirus)

China

Canada

Food Access

Local Food Systems

Agriculture

Farming

Sustainable Agriculture

Organic Food

Food  Agriculture & Environment

Food Policy

Food System Sustainability

Community Development and Social Justice

Sustainable Development

Economic Development

International Development

Environmental Health

Gardening

Rural Issues

Food System Change

Sustainable Communities

Policy Analysis

Equity and Human Rights

Social Activism

Social Movements

Urban Development

Enviromental Justice

Environmenal Education

Food

Spanish

Personal Webpage

Faculty Webpage

Google Scholar Profile

ResearchGate Profile

A recipe for safe food in Vietnam

Household Patronage and Participation in Nanjing’s Informal Food Economy

Ecological Agriculture in China: Government-led versus grassroots initiatives

Forging new interfaces between ‘feeders’ and ‘eaters’: Alternative food networks in China

What is a Sustainable Food System? Experiences from Waterloo Region

Economic development networks in the local food sector in Waterloo region

Professor, Department of Geography & Environmental Management

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