Dr. Anne Elise Stratton

Dr. Anne Elise Stratton is an agroecologist and postdoctoral researcher in the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources Department at Universität Hohenheim. Her participatory research aims to inform transitions to sustainable agriculture and food systems through policy and practice at local, regional, and global scales. As an interdisciplinary scholar, she integrates methods from the environmental and social sciences, including use of interviews and focus groups, field experiments, multivariate statistics, and geospatial and survey data analysis. Most recently, Anne Elise conducted postdoctoral research at the Institute for Environmental Studies at VU Amsterdam, where she mapped the potential impacts of increased production and consumption of legume crops on dietary outcomes across Europe. She strongly values collaborative work with communities and has partnered with nonprofits and universities in the US, Brazil, Guatemala, and now in Mexico and India through the Bright Spots of Sustainable Agriculture project.

Curriculum Vitae

Since 10/2022Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Sustainable Use of Natural Resources, Institute of Social Sciences in Agriculture, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
09/202110/2022

Postdoctoral Researcher, Sustainable Food Systems, Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

09/201608/2021

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Natural Resources and Environment (Agroecology), School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

• Dissertation title: Assessing Social, Ecological, and Nutritional Outcomes of Crop Diversification: Transitions to Agroecological Management in Southern Brazil

02/2021 – 06/2021

Intern, Food Systems, Nutrition and Global Change, CSIRO, Brisbane, QLD, Australia (remote)

02/2018present

Rural Development Project Coordinator/Advisor, Center for the Study and Promotion of Community Agriculture (CEPAGRO), Florianópolis, SC, Brazil

07/201508/2016

Program Officer for Institutional Development, Ecological Development Fund, Cambridge, MA, USA

09/2011 – 05/2015

Bachelor of Science (BS) in Biology, BS in Environmental Studies: Food Systems, Nutrition and the Environment (double major), Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA

• Thesis title: Nourishing the ‘People of Maize’: Maize Protein Composition and Farmer Practices in the Q’eqchi’ Maya Milpa
01/2014 – 05/2015

Research Assistant, Tufts Institute of the Environment, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA

08/2013 – 01/2014

Middlebury School Abroad in Chile, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile

• Semester of study, Schools of Agronomy and Natural Resources

• Research project: Reviving Trafkintü: Motivations for Mapuche Seed Exchange

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