Lisa Deutsch
About me
Lisa Deutsch is a Senior Lecturer at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. She has a PhD in Natural Resources Management, two Master’s degrees: 1) Systems Ecology and 2) MBA in International Marketing and a BA in International Relations (Latin American Studies). Lisa’s research examines the couplings between the social-ecological effects of globalization of agrofood systems and national policy and economic accounts. She particularly focuses on the ways in which global trade can change the mix of inputs to food and feed, e.g. by estimating the ecosystem subsidies needed to support intensive livestock and aquaculture production systems, where soybeans and fishmeal play central roles. She has focused on land and water use and water-related ecosystem services and how these have changed over time. She also maps food flows into cities to explore what and how cities feed themselves. Presently, Deutsch is the Principle Investigator of a Swedish government-funded research project which focuses on the “Miracle Bean” - the soybean - and its shifting roles over the long historical development of our present global agrofood system. This project extends Deutsch’s scope to consider other roles and uses of soybeans than animal feed and far back in time to its initial cultivation in China 4000 years ago. Together with co-author Matilda Baraibar Norberg, Deutsch discusses the political economy of agro-food globalization and the often “hidden” social-ecological consequences of current modes of production and commercialization.
Please see homepage at at the Stockholm Resilience Centre for more info and details: https://www.stockholmresilience.org/meet-our-team/staff/2008-01-10-deutsch.html
Current publications:
The Soybean Through World History - Lessons for Sustainable Agrofood Systems by Matilda Baraibar Norberg and Lisa Deutsch. OPEN ACCESS at: https://tinyurl.com/3smt66js
Wood, A., Queiroz, C., Deutsch, L., González-Mon, B., Jonell, M., Pereira, L., Sinare, H., Svedin, U., Wassénius, E. 2023. Reframing the local–global food systems debate through a resilience lens. Nature Food https://rdcu.be/c23lA
