Genia Hill

Drivers of participation in food systems supply chains: a case study of Papua New Guinea's cocoa smallholders

Genia is a doctoral researcher based in the Environmental Change Institute Food Systems Transformation Group. Her doctoral work investigates potential pathways to include diverse actor perspectives in food system transformation processes, particularly across level and scale. To illustrate this, she works with Papua New Guinean cocoa smallholders, exploring their perceived trade-offs between economically and environmentally-oriented behaviours, further linking this to landscape level and multi scale change. Genia’s work is founded in her belief that food systems can be an effective tool to improve economic, social, and environmental outcomes including biodiversity and climate adaptation, people’s health and well-being, incomes, and gender disparities.

Genia has worked across the private and third sectors, UN agencies, and government. She holds a MEnvMan from the University of Queensland as well as a BS in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology and a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington. She is an Australian Ramsay Scholar and Graduate Scholar of Jesus College, Oxford.