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Academy membership

Members profile

Name

Ms Fiorella Picchioni

Organisation name

SOAS/LCIRAH

Job title

PhD Candidate

Nationality

Europe, Italy

Country of current residence

Europe, United Kingdom

Expertise and interests

Sectoral expertise

Agriculture and food systems, Nutrition

Disciplinary Expertise

Development studies, Nutrition

Area of interest

Consumption, Food, Food markets, Food security, Food trade, Food value chains, Gender dynamics, Governance and policy, Resilience, Safety nets and vulnerability, Diet quality, Health, Maternal and child health

Personal

Members introduction

Fiorella Picchioni is a PhD candidate at SOAS, University of London and the Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH). Her research project focuses on the development of a novel food price indicator (the Minimum Calorie Expenditure Share) and the mechanisms through which food price fluctuations impact food and nutrition security. Prior to this, she worked for the FAO and holds a MSc in Advanced Development Economics.

Academic publications

Recent publications

Fiorella Picchioni · Lukasz Aleksandrowicz · Mieghan M. Bruce ·Soledad Cuevas · Paula Dominguez-Salas · Lili Jia · Mehroosh Tak (2015). Agri-health research: what have we learned and where do we go next? - 5th Annual Conference of the Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH). Food Security. DOI 10.1007/s12571-015-0540-z

Rebecca Kanter · Gonçalo Figueiredo Augusto · Helen L Walls ·Soledad Cuevas · Artemisa Flores-Martinez · Emily H Morgan ·Mehroosh Tak · Fiorella Picchioni (2014). 4th Annual Conference of the Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH), Agri-food policy and governance for nutrition and health. Food Security, 6(5), 747-753

History

Member for

3 years 12 months