Helena Shilomboleni

Helena Shilomboleni is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Scaling Specialist with the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) East Africa region. Her research broadly examines how best to achieve food security among Africa’s smallholder farmers in a manner that is both sustainable and equitable and has analyzed contributions from the African Green Revolution and the Food Sovereignty Movement. In recent years, her work focuses on international development efforts to scale up climate-smart innovations in smallholder food and agricultural systems under the new realities of climate change.

Sarah J. Martin

Sarah J. Martin specializes in the global political economy of food and agriculture. Her work as a cook, chef and meat cutter in a variety of settings from cafeterias to high-end restaurants to remote logging camps has led to an interest in how food politics is practiced in the everyday. She is currently researching the dynamics of food, feed and fuel in relation to environmental politics, and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Memorial University.