Dr Ana Moragues Faus
Research Fellow
School of Geography and Planning
- moraguesfausa1@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 5774
- Room 1.57, Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3WA
My research interests revolve mainly around sustainable agri-food systems, having developed most of my work in Mediterranean European countries and Latin America. I started my research career tackling aspects of sustainable rural development, looking at farmers' strategies, collective action and the dynamics of civic food networks. These food networks allowed me to analyse urban and rural linkages, leading me to integrate urban food into my research portfolio. I am also interested in food governance, having conducted studies with social movements and more recently analysing the emergence and evolution of urban food strategies. Engagement is also central to my research work, being involved in participatory-action research and knowledge brokerage projects.
Innovation and Engagement
Talks
Keynote speaker: Moragues-Faus, Ana. Co-producing urban food strategiesat International Conference: Planning the Urban Food System of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area 10th December 2013.
Moragues Faus A (2013) Rethinking research as a tool for social change. Invited speaker at Community-University Foodlinks, Exploring options for collaboration. Organised by University of Sussex, University of Brighton, Food Matters and the Brighton and Hove Food Partnership. Brighton, Uk, 12 April 2013.
Community Engagement
- Member of Cardiff Food Policy Council
- Founder and member of Food Studies Group, Cardiff University
- Member of Utopika, Action-Research Network
Consultancy
- Assessing Sustainability in the Context of Food Security. Brussels, Joint Research Centre, European Commission (2012-13).
- Assessment of International Development Project on Food Sovereignty "Fortalecimiento de las capacidades y estrategias en los procesos de producción, consumo y comercialización como pilares de la soberanía alimentaria en las comunidades campesina e indígenas organizadas de las provincias de Mendoza, Santiago del Estero y Córdoba, Argentina" INSTITUTIONS: Movimiento Nacional Campesino e Indígena, Via Campesina, ONGD-Ingeniería sin Fronteras, Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional 2009.
- Assessment of International Development Project "Education and sustainable development with Argentinean peasants and indigenous people". INSTITUTIONS: Movimiento Nacional Campesino e Indígena, Via Campesina, ONGD-Ingeniería sin Fronteras. 2004.
News
Latest Publications
Ortiz-Miranda, Dionisio, Ana Moragues Faus and Eladio Arnalte-Alegre, eds. Agriculture in Mediterranean Europe: Between Old and New Paradigms. Vol. 19. Emerald Group Publishing, 2013.
Moragues-Faus, A., and Morgan, K. 2013 Ethical foodscapes: the politics of care Papeles de relaciones ecosociales y cambio global n121, p.113-127.
Moragues-Faus, Ana. 'Sustainable Food Planning: Evolving Theory and Practice.' Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning ahead-of-print (2013): 1-3. (Book review) .
Moragues Faus, Ana, Morgan, Kevin John, Moschitz, Heidrun, Neimane, Ilze, Nilsson, Helen, Pinto, Miriam, Rohracher, Harald, Ruiz, Roberto, Thuswald, Monika, Tisenkopfs, Talis and Halliday, Jess 2013. Urban food strategies: the rough guide to sustainable food systems. [Project Report]. Foodlinks. Available at: http://www.foodlinkscommunity.net/fileadmin/docume...
Invited Presentations
Keynote speaker: Moragues-Faus Ana Co-producing urban food strategiesat International Conference: Planning the Urban Food System of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area 10th December 2013.
Moragues Faus Rethinking research as a tool for social change. Invited speaker at Community-University Foodlinks, Exploring options for collaboration. Organised by University of Sussex, University of Brighton, Food Matters and the Brighton and Hove Food Partnership. Brighton, Uk, 12 April 2013.
Media Activity
Coordinator webinar on Urban Food Strategies: Frameworks and Governance http://www.foodlinkscommunity.net/1133.html?&L=0
Research Grant Award
This year Ana has conducted jointly with Dr Roberta Sonnino a review of "the barriers to sustainability in the context of food security" commissioned by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. Findings from this project were presented at a workshop in Seville in April.
Ana, jointly with Roberta Sonnino and Professor Terry Marsden, has also been awarded a new Collaborative Project grant (of over €600,000) by the European Commission to do an Assessment of the Impact of Drivers of Change on Europe's Food and Nutrition Security. This new project called TRANSMANGO will start in 2014.
Qualifications
European PhD in Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Policies, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Valencia, 2011, With Honours Cum Laude. Thesis title: How is agriculture sustained? Following farmers from the field to the market. A case study of olive oil in a Mediterranean Region.
Supervisors: Dr. Dionisio Ortiz Miranda, Dr. Eladio Arnalte Alegre
Panel: Terry Marsden, Jose María Alvárez Coque, Ada Cavazzani, Luis Camarero, Maria Joao Prudencio Canadas
Master in Science, Agri-food and Environmental Economics, Expert on Agrarian Policies and Rural Development, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Valencia, 2006-2008. Thesis title: Land use changes in Valencia Region: exploring a dimension of rural transformations.
Master of Agricultural Engineering, Expertise on Environment, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Valencia, 2004-2006 Thesis title: Analysis of Rural Policies in Latin America. The case of Nicaragua.
Bachelor of Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Valencia, 2001-2004.
Career
- Research Associate, School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University (2012 until nowadays)
- Research Associate in Universidad Politècnica de Valencia (2011-2012)
- PhD Fellowship funded by The Ministry of Education and Science of Spain, Programme for Training University Teachers (2007-2011)
- PROMOE Fellowship of Academic exchange, funded by Universidad Politècnica de Valencia. Based on Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo Nitlapán, Universidad Centroamericana de Nicaragua (2006)
- Studentship to collaborate on Research Project "Analysis of Rural Development Policies in Latin America". Department of Engineering Projects, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (2005-2006)
Awards/Prizes
- Winner of the " Doctoral dissertation Award" (Premio Extraordinario de Tesis Doctoral), granted by Universidad Politecnica de Valencia to the best thesis defended across the University in 2011 academic year (May 2013)
- Winner of the prize for 'Best Novel Contribution' - VI Conference of the Spanish Association of Agrarian Economics (September 2007)
2019
- Moragues Faus, A. 2019. Towards a critical governance framework: unveiling the political and justice dimensions of urban food partnerships. Geographical Journal (10.1111/geoj.12325)
- Moragues Faus, A. and Sonnino, R. 2019. Re-assembling sustainable food cities: An exploration of translocal governance and its multiple agencies. Urban Studies 56(4), pp. 778-795. (10.1177/0042098018763038)
- Santo, R. and Moragues Faus, A. 2019. Towards a trans-local food governance: Exploring the transformative capacity of food policy assemblages in the US and UK. Geoforum 98, pp. 75-87. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.10.002)
- Marsden, T. K., Moragues Faus, A. and Sonnino, R. 2019. Reproducing vulnerabilities in agri-food systems: tracing the links between governance, financialisation and vulnerability in Europe post 2007-8. Journal of Agrarian Change 19(1), pp. 82-100. (10.1111/joac.12267)
2018
- Moragues Faus, A. and Marceau, A. 2018. Measuring progress in sustainable food cities: An indicators toolbox for action.. Sustainability 11(1), pp. -., article number: 45. (10.3390/su11010045)
- Cerrad-Serra, P.et al. 2018. Exploring the contribution of alternative food networks to food security. A comparative analysis.. Food Security 10(6), pp. 1371-1388. (10.1007/s12571-018-0860-x)
- Moragues Faus, A. and Carroll, B. 2018. Reshaping urban political ecologies: An analysis of policy trajectories to deliver food security.. Food Security 10(6), pp. 1337-1351. (10.1007/s12571-018-0855-7)
- Moragues Faus, A. 2018. A critical perspective on the transformative capacity of food justice. Local Environment 23(11), pp. 1094-1097.
- Sonnino, R. and Moragues Faus, A. 2018. Introduction to part VI: feeding hungry and thirsty cities. In: Handbook of Nature. SAGE, pp. 535-542.
2017
- Moragues Faus, A. 2017. Addressing food security vulnerabilities through urban food policy alliances: the case of the Sustainable Food Cities Network in the UK.. In: Barling, D. ed. Advances in Food Security and Sustainability, Volume 2. Elsevier, pp. 87-114.
- Moragues Faus, A. and Marsden, T. 2017. The political ecology of food:carving 'spaces of possibility' in a new research agenda. Journal of Rural Studies 55, pp. 275-288. (10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.08.016)
- Moragues Faus, A. 2017. Urban food policy alliances as paths to food sovereignty- Insights from sustainable food cities in the UK. In: Desmarais, A. A., Claeys, P. and Trauger, A. eds. Public Policies for Food Sovereignty: Social Movements and the State.. Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment London and New York: Routledge, pp. 147-163.
- Moragues Faus, A., Sonnino, R. and Marsden, T. K. 2017. Exploring European food system vulnerabilities: towards integrated food security governance. Environmental Science and Policy 75, pp. 184-215. (10.1016/j.envsci.2017.05.015)
- Moragues Faus, A. 2017. Problematising justice definitions in public food security debates: towards global and participative food justices. Geoforum 84, pp. 95-106. (10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.06.007)
- Moragues Faus, A. 2017. Emancipatory or Neoliberal Food Politics? Exploring the “Politics of Collectivity” of Buying Groups in the Search for Egalitarian Food Democracies. Antipode 49(2), pp. 455-476. (10.1111/anti.12274)
- Moragues Faus, A. 2017. Estrategias urbanas alimentarias: transformando nuestras ciudades a través de la comida. In: Lopez, D. et al. eds. Arraigar las instituciones: Propuestas de políticas públicas agroecológicas desde los movimientos sociales.. Madrid: Libros en Acción
2016
- Sonnino, R., Marsden, T. K. and Moragues Faus, A. 2016. Relationalities and convergences in food security narratives: towards a place based approach. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 41(4), pp. 477-489. (10.1111/tran.12137)
- Moragues Faus, A. 2016. Revisiting food studies from a political ecology perspective: lessons from Mediterranean agri-food systems.. In: Ioris, A. ed. Agriculture, Environment and Development: International Perspectives on Water, Land and Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 59-90.
2015
- Ortiz-Miranda, D. and Moragues Faus, A. 2015. Governing fair trade coffee supply: dynamics and challenges in small farmers' organizations. Sustainable Development 23(1), pp. 41-54. (10.1002/sd.1570)
- Moragues Faus, A. and Morgan, K. J. 2015. Reframing the foodscape: the emergent world of urban food policy. Environment and Planning A 47(7), pp. 1558-1573. (10.1177/0308518X15595754)
- Ortiz Miranda, D., Marquez Climent, J. and Moragues Faus, A. 2015. Los pequeños agricultores en los esquemas de Comercio Justo en Guatemala: acción colectiva, gobernanza y capital social.. In: Centro de Cooperacion al Desarrollo, . ed. ADSIDEO-Cooperación. Experiencias de investigación para el desarrollo humano. Valencia: Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, pp. 97-110.
2014
- Moragues Faus, A. 2014. How is agriculture reproduced? Unfolding farmers' interdependencies in small-scale Mediterranean olive oil production. Journal of Rural Studies 34, pp. 139-151. (10.1016/j.jrurstud.2014.01.009)
- Sonnino, R. and Moragues Faus, A. 2014. Sostenibilità e sicurezza alimentare: gli anelli mancanti. Agriregionieuropa 10(36)
- Sonnino, R., Moragues Faus, A. and Maggio, A. 2014. Sustainable food security: an emerging research and policy agenda. International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food 21(1), pp. 173-188.
2013
- Moragues Faus, A. and Morgan, K. J. 2013. Re-framing the Foodscape: The rise of cities as food policy actors. Presented at: 5th AESOP Sustainable Food Planning Conference, Montpellier, France, 28-29 October 2013.
- Moragues Faus, A. 2013. Aproximación a una dimensión de las transformaciones rurales: El cambio en los usos del suelo en la Comunidad Valenciana. In: Fernandez, F. R. ed. El Derecho agrario valenciano y su aplicación a la empresa familiar agroalimentaria y los usos del suelo: aspectos jurídicos y económicos. Monografías Vol. 840. Valencia: Tirant Lo Blanch, pp. 395-414.
- Moragues Faus, A. 2013. Rethinking research as a tool for social change. Presented at: Community foodlinks: Exploring options for collaboration, Brighton, UK, 15 April 2013.
- Sonnino, R. and Moragues Faus, A. 2013. Sustainabilities and food securities: The missing link(s). Presented at: XXV European Society for Rural Sociology (ESRS) Congress, Florence, Italy, 29 July - 1 August 2013.
- Moragues Faus, A. 2013. Sustainable food planning: Evolving theory and practice [Book Review]. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning 15(4), pp. 577-579. (10.1080/1523908X.2013.850232)
- Ortiz-Miranda, D., Moragues Faus, A. and Arnalte-Alegre, E. eds. 2013. Agriculture in Mediterranean Europe: Between Old and New Paradigms. Research in Rural Sociology and Development Vol. 19. Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
- Moragues Faus, A., Ortiz-Miranda, D. and Marsden, T. K. 2013. Bringing Mediterranean agriculture into the theoretical debates. In: Ortiz-Miranda, D., Moragues Faus, A. and Arnalte-Alegre, E. eds. Agriculture in Mediterranean Europe: Between Old and New Paradigms. Research in Rural Sociology and Development Vol. 19. Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp. 9-36.
- Ortiz-Miranda, D., Moragues Faus, A. and Arnalte-Alegre, E. 2013. Agriculture in Mediterranean Europe: Challenging theory and policy. In: Ortiz-Miranda, D., Moragues Faus, A. and Arnalte-Alegre, E. eds. Agriculture in Mediterranean Europe: Between Old and New Paradigms. Research in Rural Sociology and Development Vol. 19. Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp. 295-310.
- Moragues Faus, A.et al. 2013. Urban food strategies: the rough guide to sustainable food systems. Project Report. [Online]. Foodlinks. Available at: http://www.foodlinkscommunity.net/fileadmin/documents_organicresearch/foodlinks/publications/Urban_food_strategies.pdf
- Moragues Faus, A. 2013. Co-producing urban food strategies. Presented at: International Conference: Planning the Urban Food System of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, Lisbon, Portugal, 10 December 2013.
- Moragues Faus, A. and Morgan, K. J. 2013. El horizonte etico alimentario: La politica del cuidado. Papeles de relaciones ecosociales y cambio global 121, pp. 113-127.
2012
- Moragues Faus, A. and Sonnino, R. 2012. Embedding quality in the agro-food system: The dynamics and implications of place-making strategies in the olive oil sector of Alto Palancia, Spain. Sociologia Ruralis 52(2), pp. 215-234. (10.1111/j.1467-9523.2011.00558.x)
- Moragues Faus, A. and Ortiz-Miranda, D. 2012. Governing cooperative quality schemes: lessons from olive oil initiatives in Valencia (Spain). Outlook on Agriculture 41(1), pp. 27-33. (10.5367/oa.2012.0072)
2010
- Moragues Faus, A. and Ortiz-Miranda, D. 2010. Local mobilisation against windfarm developments in Spanish rural areas: New actors in the regulation arena. Energy Policy 38(8), pp. 4232-4240. (10.1016/j.enpol.2010.03.053)
- Ortiz-Miranda, D., Moreno-Perez, O. and Moragues Faus, A. 2010. Innovative strategies of agricultural cooperatives in the framework of the new rural development paradigms: the case of the Region of Valencia (Spain). Environment and Planning A 42(3), pp. 661-677. (10.1068/a42168)
Ana is a member of the Environment Research Group and a member of School's Research Centre for Urban and Regional Food Systems (SURF).
Interests / Areas of Expertise
Sustainable food systems, food security, rural development, agrarian change, rural-urban linkages, sustainable food planning, collective action, social movements, action research.
Projects
TITLE: Foodlinks - Knowledge brokerage to promote sustainable food consumption and production: linking scientists, policymakers and civil society organisations
FUNDING INSTITUTION: European Union
PERIOD OF PARTICIPATION: 01/09/2012 until nowadays
TITLE: Action Research: Solidarity Purchasing Groups in Valencia
FUNDING INSTITUTION: GENERALITAT VALENCIANA (Ingeniería sin Fronteras and Utópika)
PERIOD OF PARTICIPATION: 01/12/2011 until nowadays
TITLE: SUSTAINMED: Sustainable agri-food systems and rural development in the Mediterranean Partner Countries
FUNDING INSTITUTION: European Union
PERIOD OF PARTICIPATION: 23/05/2011 - 23/11/2011
TITLE: Los pequeños agricultores en los esquemas de comercio justo en Latinoamérica: acción colectiva, gobernanza y capital social (Participation of small farmers in fair trade initiatives in Latin America: collective action, governance and social capital)
FUNDING INSTITUTION: Centro de Cooperación al Desarrollo - Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
PERIOD OF PARTICIPATION: 14/09/2011 until nowadays
TITLE: Estrategias de valorización de servicios ambientales en las explotaciones agrarias: el caso de la comunidad valenciana (GVPRE/2008/273) (Valorization strategies of environmental services in agrarian holdings: the case of Valencian Region)
FUNDING INSTITUTION: GENERALITAT VALENCIANA
PERIOD OF PARTICIPATION: 01/01/2008 - 01/01/2009
TITLE: El papel de la agricultura en los procesos de desarrollo y diferenciación de los territorios rurales españoles (RURAGRI) (AGL2005-07827-C03-01) (The role of agriculture in development and differentiation processes of Spanish rural areas)
FUNDING INSTITUTION: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia.
PERIOD OF PARTICIPATION: 02/04/2007 -31/12/2008