Patricia Galvão Ferreira

Assistant Professor

University of Windsor

"Legal and policy frameworks at the national, subnational, and global levels can play a crucial role in moving us away from conventional food systems that are currently undermining our ecosystems, helping to destabilize our climate, and perpetuating hunger and inequality. Food waste is one pressing element of this puzzle, as it has heavy environmental, economic, and social footprints. Food waste is also a significant contributor to the climate crisis. This partnership with Reimagine Agriculture and UOttawa provides Windsor Law students with an ideal opportunity to engage in a collective research and advocacy initiative that will identify what laws and policies Canada needs to put in place to meet the SDG 12.3 target of halving per capita food waste by 2030."

Heather McLeod-Kilmurray

Professor

University of Ottawa

Heather McLeod-Kilmurray is a Professor at the Centre for Environmental Law and Global Sustainability (CELGS) at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa. Her research deals with food law including GMOs and industrial factory farming, toxic torts, environmental justice and the relationship between science and courts. She is co-author of The Canadian Law of Toxic Torts with Prof. Lynda Collins, and co-editor of Canadian Food Law and Policy with Profs. Nathalie Chalifour and Angela Lee. She is a former part-time member of the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal.