Improving Standards and Certification in Agri-Food Supply Chains: Ensuring Safety, Sustainability and Social Responsibility

About

Dr Louise Manning is Professor of Sustainable Agri-food Systems at the Lincoln Institute for Agri-food Technology at the University of Lincoln UK. With over 30 years of experience in both industry and research and over 125 peer-reviewed publications Professor Manning is internationally-renowned for both her research and consultancy work on food safety and quality agri-food systems food integrity and crime. She is an Associate Editor for the British Food Journal and is a member of the Board of Trustees for Rothamsted Research. Professor Manning has previously edited Developing smart agri-food supply chains: Using technology to improve safety and quality published by Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing in 2021. Pilar Pampin is an agronomist with a farming background who was born and raised in Uruguay. Since 2020 she has lived in United Kingdom where she completed her Master's studies in Agroecology at Harper Adams University. She currently works in LEAF (Linking Environment and Farming) a UK-based charity leading in the delivery of sustainable food and farming. Jo Treweek is an experienced researcher ecological consultant and due diligence reviewer specialising in biodiversity and ecosystem services aspects of land use planning and development in a variety of sectors and countries. She works with farmers and land managers communities planners regulators and finance institutions to optimize outcomes for nature. Dr Matthias Kuhnert is an environmental modeller with a wide range of experience in using data from different scales. His recent focus was on simulations of greenhouse gas emissions and soil organic carbon changes in croplands impacts of data aggregation on model results and the development of measuring reporting and verification systems for soil organic carbon.