Caroline Brand

Professor and researcher in geography

Expertise

Ways to make the food transition happen in local areas
Innovations and transitions in local food systems and policies
Food justice
Agroecological urban planning (DeTor, 2019)
Urban Food Planning
Inter-regional cooperation

Research unit

Laboratory for Rural Studies

Keywords

Food system, food governance, metropolization, urban planning, public policy, territorial transaction, territorial reciprocity.

Ongoing or recently completed projects

ISARA-Métropole de Lyon agreement – action 2 “support for the development of a sustainable and inclusive food policy.”
RECIBIODAL project – Reciprocity at the crossroads of city and mountain: landscapes of biodiversity and food. The objective: to document the links between wolf management, the livestock farming situation, and food (consumer expectations and practices) in order to enrich and establish a collective debate around the Belledonne chain and the surrounding urban areas on responsibilities and solidarity in wolf conservation and in food and agroecological transitions.
NSAD – New Food Solidarity for Democracy: collaborative research on food democratization processes for the residents of Villeurbanne.

Teaching activities

Social science research methods (3rd year and optional module in 4th year applied to the study of eating behaviors and their determinants)
Food system dynamics and challenges: a social science perspective (3rd year)
Food and Cities (optional module in 4th year)
Territorial food governance (5th year)
Feeding an urban world: changes and perspectives for more sustainable food systems (Agroecology, sustainable agriculture, and food systems summer school)

Professional experience and education

2023-: Head of the Food and Cities module in the fourth year of the engineering program.
2022-: Member of the CRATer scientific committee.
2022-: Member of the scientific committee for the Territoires à Vivres project.
2022 –: Member of the thesis committee for Augustin Hautecoeur (LOCI Tournai Faculty of Architecture – UCL Louvain), “The food system in the process of reterritorialization: New governance and resource specification – Collective canteens as a lever for the narrative of the Lille-Tournai-Kortrijk Euro-metropolitan territory in terms of its scales, flows, and food issues.”
2021-2022: Coordination of the “Food” month for the thematic program of the Scientific Council of Grenoble Green Capital and Transition 2022, October 2022, Grenoble.
2021-2022: Coordination of the call for papers “Mountains and Food” for the Revue de Géographie Alpine.
2020-: Member of the technical and scientific committee of the RNPAT.
2019-: Head of the UP Methods in Social Sciences: Investigate, Communicate, Manage in the 3rd year of the engineering program.
2019-: Head of the UP Methodology in the 1st year of the apprenticeship program.
2019: Member of the scientific committee of the 9th international conference “Agroecological transitions confronting climate breakdown: food planning for the post-carbon city” of the “sustainable food planning” group of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) November 7-9
2019, Madrid.
2019: Post-doctorate, CNRS, BIOLOREC Program “Effects and limitations of introducing organic and local products in collective catering in rural areas,” Pacte UMR 5194, Grenoble.
2018: Member of the board of the “Sustainable Food Planning” group of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP), in charge of regional coordination (Center for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (Coventry), Cardiff University, Wageningen University, Berlin Institute of Technology, Università di Torino, etc.).
2017: Post-doctorate, Pacte UMR 5194. FRUGAL program “Urban Forms and Food Governance,” Grenoble.
2016: Project manager for “promoting work and setting up international research projects on urban food policies,” UNESCO Chair in World Food Systems. Montpellier SupAgro-CIRAD, Montpellier.
2016: Thesis nominated for the thesis prize of the National Committee of Universities (CNU)-French National Committee of Geography. CNU qualification in sections 23 and 24
2015: Doctorate in Geography, “Food and Metropolization. Rethinking the territory in light of a forgotten vital issue,” University of Grenoble-Alpes, UMR PACTE 5194, 2009-2015. Highest honors with congratulations from the jury.
2013-2015: Expert for the City of Lyon. European URBACT program “Sustainable food in urban communities,” Lyon, 2013-2015.
2013: Temporary Teaching and Research Assistant. Institute of Alpine Geography (IGA), Joseph Fourier University (UJF), Grenoble, 96 hours.
2011-2015: Trainer, professional training courses for teachers and actors in spatial planning and development on the emergence of food as an object of spatial planning.
2010-2019: Lecturer, Institute of Urban Planning and Alpine Geography (IUGA), Grenoble Alpes University, 218 hours.
2008: Master 2 “Territorial Systems, Sustainable Development, Decision Support,” with honors, Institute of Alpine Geography (IGA), Joseph Fourier University (UJF), Grenoble. One semester at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland).

Latest publications

Article in a journal

2025

Francisco B Ortega, Kai Zhang, Cristina Cadenas-Sanchez, Mark S Tremblay, Gregor Jurak, et al.. The Youth Fitness International Test (YFIT) battery for monitoring and surveillance among children and adolescents: A modified Delphi consensus project with 169 experts from 50 countries and territories. Journal of Sport and Health Science, 2025, 14, pp.101012.

2023

Caroline Brand, Giacomo Pettenati. Mountains and Food: Current Dynamics and Challenges in European Mountains. Revue de Géographie Alpine / Journal of Alpine Research, 2023, Special Issue “Mountains and Food,” 110 (2), pp. 1-11.

2021

Jennifer Buyck, Aurore Meyfroidt, Caroline Brand, Gabriel Jourdan. Bringing sustainable urban planning down to earth through food: the experience of the food transects of Grenoble and Caen. Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies, 2021, 102, pp.319-347.

Communication at a conference

2024

Ioanna Mouratiadou, Laura Solaroli, Jacques-Aristide Perrin, Perrine Vandenbroucke, Vincent Payet, et al.. Where alternative food networks and agroecology meet: exploring synergies for food system transformation. 187th EAAE Seminar “Food System Transformation – Role of Research”, European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE), Jun 2024, Frick, Switzerland, Switzerland.

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Chapter of a book

2022

Caroline Brand, Mathilde Ferrand, Perrine Vandenbroucke, Claire Delfosse, Simon Vonthron. Eating in difficult areas: in the urban and rural fringes of France. Abis, Sébastien; Brun, Matthieu. Le Déméter 2022. Food: the new frontiers, IRIS éditions, pp.157-164, 2022.

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Other scientific publication

2021

Caroline Brand, Giacomo Pettenati. Call for papers RGA Special issue “Mountains and Food”: current dynamics and challenges in European mountains. 2021.

2020

Caroline Brand. The return of the “providing mayor”: local authorities are reorganizing the availability of food supplies. 2020.

Books

2019

Caroline Brand, Nicolas Bricas, Damien Conaré, Benoît Daviron, Julie Debru, et al.. Designing Urban Food Policies. Springer International Publishing, 2019, Urban Agriculture (Springer), 978-3-030-13958-2.

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