Colin Anderson
Research Associate Professor, Agriculture, Landscape, and Environment
Co-Director, Institute for Agroecology
Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
PRONOUNS he/him
105 Carrigan Drive
Burlington, VT 05405
United States
- Ph.D., Environment and Geography, The University of Manitoba
- B.A., Psychology (Major), Sociology (Minor), The University of Manitoba
Areas of expertise
- Agroecology Transformations
- Governance of Food Systems
- Knowledge Mobilization
- Participation and Power
- Transformative Action Research
- Learning and Pedagogy
- Use of Media and Narratives for Transformative Change
- People’s Knowledge
- Financing Agroecology
BIO
Colin Anderson is Co-Director of the UVM Institute for Agroecology and is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Agriculture, Landscape and Environment. His work centers on community- and people-led processes of social transformation, grounded in a deep commitment to social justice, resilience, and well-being. He collaborates with communities, networks, institutions, and organizations confronting the intersecting crises of our food systems, as well as those reimagining and building equitable alternatives. Colin focuses on participatory research and learning that transforms knowledge into action, working collaboratively with diverse communities and partners to co-create pathways toward just transformations in food systems. His research explores themes of pedagogy and learning, innovation, financing agroecology, food system transitions, political ecology, participatory methodologies, and resilience. Colin is a co-convener of the international platforms Agroecology Now, and Rooted Magazine, and teaches in the UVM Certificate of Graduate Studies in Agroecology. Colin also serve as co-editor of the Just Transformations in Food Systems book series with CRC Press.
Courses
- Just Transitions in Food Systems
- Participatory Action Research and Transdisciplinarity in Agroecology
Publications
Bio
Colin Anderson is Co-Director of the UVM Institute for Agroecology and is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Agriculture, Landscape and Environment. His work centers on community- and people-led processes of social transformation, grounded in a deep commitment to social justice, resilience, and well-being. He collaborates with communities, networks, institutions, and organizations confronting the intersecting crises of our food systems, as well as those reimagining and building equitable alternatives. Colin focuses on participatory research and learning that transforms knowledge into action, working collaboratively with diverse communities and partners to co-create pathways toward just transformations in food systems. His research explores themes of pedagogy and learning, innovation, financing agroecology, food system transitions, political ecology, participatory methodologies, and resilience. Colin is a co-convener of the international platforms Agroecology Now, and Rooted Magazine, and teaches in the UVM Certificate of Graduate Studies in Agroecology. Colin also serve as co-editor of the Just Transformations in Food Systems book series with CRC Press.
Courses
- Just Transitions in Food Systems
- Participatory Action Research and Transdisciplinarity in Agroecology
Publications
ASSOCIATIONS AND AFFILIATIONS
Co-facilitator of the Agroecology Coalition’s Working Group on Research, Innovation and Education
Affiliate of Gund Institute for the Environment
Member of UVM Food Systems Program Faculty
Member of Leadership Team for Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems
Member of The Inter-institutional Network for Food, Agriculture and Sustainability (INFAS)
Member of Agroecology Now Research and Knowledge Mobilization Group (www.agroecologynow.com)
Editorial Board Member of Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development
Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
Member of ARC - Agroecology Research-Action Collective
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
- High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN). (2025). Building resilient food systems (HLPE Report No. 20). Committee on World Food Security, FAO. https://www.fao.org/cfs/cfs-hlpe/publications/hlpe-20
- Yap, C. & C. R. Anderson. (2025). Learning the City Through Urban Agriculture. Environment and Planning D.
- Baker, L., Brock, S., Jekums, A., Ahmed, F. Fernandez, M., DeClerck, F., Lundgren, J., Bellon, S., Gubbels, P., Maland Cady, J. Stancu, C., Hoare, B., Renduchintala, S., Thallam, V., Bezner Kerr, R., Peters, A., Mendez, E., Anderson, C.R., Montenegro de Wit, M., Rosado-May, F., Wittman, H. & M. Anderson. (2024). A wider lens of evidence is essential for food systems transformation. Nature Food.
- Anderson, C. R., Bruil, J., Chappell, J., Kiss, C., Pimbert, M. P. (2021). AgroecologyNow! Transformations for a More Just and Sustainable Food Systems. Palgrave-MacMillan. Open Access. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61315-0
- Anderson, C. R. & C. Maughan (2021). ‘The Innovation Imperative’: the struggle over agroecology in the international food policy arena.
- Anderson, C. R., Bruil, J., Chappell, M. J., Kiss, C., & Pimbert, M. P. (2019). From Transition to Domains of Transformation: Getting to Sustainable and Just Food Systems through Agroecology. Sustainability, 11(19).
- Anderson, C. R., Maughan, C. & M. Pimbert (2019). Transformative agroecology learning in Europe: Building consciousness, skills and collective capacity for food Sovereignty. Journal of Agriculture and Human Values. 36, 531-547.