Bio
Linley Chiwona-Karltun is Associate Professor in Rural Development at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry. Linley holds a PhD International Health from Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, MSc. Human Nutrition - Uppsala University, Sweden and BSc. Food Nutrition and Institutional Management - East Carolina University USA. Linley conducts training, education and research on issues pertaining to food systems and nutrition in low and middle income countries using interdisciplinary approaches. Linley has published original research, reviews, popular science on food security and food safety, gender, African food systems and rural entrepreneurship . Her interest in the Academy is to be a mentor and role model .
Location
Sweden
Current Role
Research Fellow
Organisation Name
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Sector
University research
Disciplines
Agriculture
Nutrition
Public health
Speciality
Food safety
Food security
Gender, empowerment and equity
Nutrition and dietetics (including emergency nutrition)
Smallholder farming and livelihoods