Researcher biography
Rob Arcidiacono is a critical sociologist, food systems researcher, and civil society advocate focused on food sovereignty, agroecology, and social justice. He is a post-doc researcher at the Centre for Policy Futures at the University of Queensland, is a member of the Coordination Committee of the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples' Mechanism (CSIPM), contributing to global food policy through the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), and is on the Agroecology and Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) National Committee.
Rob draws on experience from development and humanitarian roles across a diversity of cultural and geographic contexts to centre the Right to Food, and elevate the perspectives of farmers, civil society, and First Nations communities in domestic and global food governance processes. He currently coordinates the Agroecology Action Research Network (of academics in Australia), co-coordinates the Resilient Food Systems working group for the CSIPM, and is actively engaged in qualitative research projects based in food justice, social enterprise and policy processes. His PhD explored digital technologies and innovation narratives in Australian agriculture, providing him with strong analytical tools to critically assess power, discourses, and competing interests shaping food systems in Australia and globally.