This is my MSCA Global Fellowship which sought to enlarge the global conversation about the role of the solidarity economy in food system transformations by supporting shared learning between East and West and academia and cooperative movements. I undertook extensive fieldwork, archival research and desk research to conduct an in-depth case study of the Korean cooperative, Hansalim, which has grown to become one of the largest organic food cooperatives in the world.

As a research fellow on this British Academy funded project I have been working with AI researchers, a web-developer and research partners in China and India to develop a web-app that enables AI-assisted land-use classification using satellite imagery and creation of land-use change models. We have combined this with fieldwork in peri-urban Wuhan and Ghaziabad to explore potential impacts of land-use change on green infrastructure and outcomes for different stakeholders.

For this Sussex Sustainability Research Fund (SSRP) project I worked with our university’s informatics department to explore ways of integrating AI and deep learning techniques with transdisciplinary research for mapping, analysing and visually communicating the interactions between urbanisation, urban pollution, peri-urban food systems and human health in India and China.

In this project I was part of a research team reflecting on and investigating how transdisciplinary research can contribute to challenging elite capture of urban development policy and democratising urban environmental agendas through working with alliances of poor and pro-poor actors over long periods across multiple research projects.

As a research fellow on this ESPA (espa.ac.uk) funded transdisciplinary project with partners in India I was involved in analysing the connections between urbanisation, changes in peri-urban ecosystem services and experiences of poverty and health risks among peri-urban farmers.