Professor Bhavani Shankar
School of Geography and Planning
Professor of Food Systems, Nutrition and Sustainability


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School of Geography and Planning
Geography and Planning Building
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND
- Profile
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Bhavani works on research areas at the intersection of food systems, health and environmental sustainability. He joined the Institute of Sustainable Food and the School of Geography and Planning in April 2020.
From 2011 to March 2020, Bhavani was Professor at SOAS 小欧视频 of London, and has previously also held appointments at the 小欧视频 of Reading and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Bhavani鈥檚 recent work has been funded by the Welcome Trust, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Leverhulme Trust, UKRI, GCRF, UKAid and the European Commission, among others.
During 2022-23 Bhavani served as team leader for the High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) report on 'Reducing Inequalities for Food Security and Nutrition'. He is on the Management Committee of the Institute for Sustainable Food at Sheffield and serves on the editorial advisory boards of the journals Global Food Security and Food Policy. In 2024 Bhavani was named as one of ten 鈥楪oalkeepers Champions鈥 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation helping make transformative progress on global nutrition.
- Research interests
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Bhavani鈥檚 current research interests include sustainable diets, climate and nutrition-sensitive food systems, food and nutrition policy evaluation and inequities in food systems and nutrition. Much of his work is of an interdisciplinary nature, conducted in collaboration with nutritionists, geographers and health, agricultural and environmental scientists.
Current externally funded projects:
INFUSION is studying was in which rural communities in India can gain better access to nutrient-dense foods through improved functioning of food markets.
: IMMANA aims to stimulate the development of novel methods and metrics for research linking agriculture and nutrition. It is co-funded by and .
: Nutrished aims to develop and demonstrate a spatially-explicit foodshed-level planning approach that will enable planners to diagnose and plan interventions to help communities ensure stable and resilient supplies of key nutrients.
: NAPIC is a BBSRC and Innovate UK funded Centre pioneering innovative solutions in alternative proteins in the food system.
- Publications
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Journal articles
Chapters
Conference proceedings papers