Florian Kroll

Florian is a researcher at the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security, which is based at the University of the Western Cape.

He researches food governance, food systems and the biopolitics of urban food systems governance in African cities.

Beginning in 2006, he worked with the Wits Health Promotion Unit to promote agroecology and nutrition and has conducted urban food security surveys and policy evaluations in Cape Town and Gauteng. His collaboration with the Southern Africa Food Lab inculcated an interest in social innovation and dialogues. He is an alumnus of the 2014 IVLP programme on food security and foreign policy.

Currently, he works with the DSTI-NRF Centre of Excellence on Food Security (CoE-FS) at the University of the Western Cape. He convenes and facilitates multi-stakeholder dialogues with the Food Imbizo and with the African Food Systems Transformation Collective (AFSTC) to promote democratic and sustainable food governance.

Florian completed his PhD studies with the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS).