Published 2021-02-16

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Line Gordon gets professorship in sustainable food systems

Line Gordon, Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre and one of the research leaders in Mistra Food Futures, is to become professor of sustainable development, specialising in sustainable food systems, at Stockholm University. The professorship is funded by the Curt Bergfors Foundation.

According to the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC), the new chair will reinforce the Centre’s research on sustainability and resilience of food systems. Gordon is to take up the position on 1 March. In one of her research areas, she will focus on regional, national and global scenarios, with a view to identifying alternative roads to development of more resilient, sustainable food systems that support national and global goals. She will also work on ‘gastronomical landscapes’, with a special emphasis on food quality and food crafts characterised by sustainability.

According to SRC, the professorship will also be adapted to the Centre’s current research initiatives that address one of the biggest challenges — how to produce sufficiently nutritious food for a growing world population, while relieving the pressure on our planet’s climate and ecosystems.

Gordon, an internationally renowned researcher, has been Director of the SRC at Stockholm University since 2018. She is an associate professor of systems ecology and has done interdisciplinary work on agriculture, food, water resources and ecosystem services. A Board member of the EAT Foundation, she is also one of the research leaders of Mistra Food Futures, the new research programme.