Research Project Food for Justice
Power, Politics and Food Inequalities in a Bioeconomy
The junior research group Food for Justice, which received funding by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) between 2019 and 2025, investigates social mobilization in response to injustices in food systems, as well as social and political innovations that address inequalities in food security related to cleavages such as class, gender, race, ethnicity, and nationality. Food for Justice was based at Freie Universität Berlin’s Institute for Latin American Studies from 2019 to 2022. Following the appointment of project leader Renata Motta as Professor of “Society, Culture and Communication in Ibero-America” at Heidelberg University, the group continued its research at the HCIAS between 2023 and 2025.
Meet the Team
- Prof. Dr. Renata Motta, Principal investigator and project leader
- Dr. Marco Antonio Teixeira, Postdoc
- Dr. Judith Müller, Postdoc
- Dr. Birgit Peuker, Postdoc
- Lea Zentgraf, M.A., Research associate and doctoral student
- Eryka Silva Galindo, M.A., Research associate and doctoral student
- Carla Rossmann, B.Sc., student research assistant
- María Manzanares, B.A., student research assistant
Contact
Food For Justice - FFJ
Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies - HCIAS
Brunnengasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg
Email: foodforjustice(at)uni-heidelberg.de