Hala N. Barakat

Hala is an archaeobotanist, a freelance environmental consultant and food researcher. Since January 2013, her research has focused on the issues of “food heritage” as well as the “Right to Food” and “Food Sovereignty” in Egypt and the region. In February 2015, she participated in the formulation of the declaration of the International forum for Agro-ecology in Nyeleni, Mali. In December 2019, she contributed to the report on the "Right to food and food sovereignty in the Arab world" published by the ANND, Beirut, with a thematic paper: “Right to food and Food sovereignty in the Arab world from a gender perspective”. Since October 2021, she is a member of the coordinating committee of the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples Mechanism (CSIPM) at the committee for food security (CFS), for the ‘Urban food insecure” constituency.