Barbara Redlingshöfer
Social ecologist in the Sadapt research unit at INRAE
Barbara Redlingshöfer is a social ecologist in the Sadapt research unit at INRAE. She has a background in nutrition and home economics (Dipl. Oec. Troph., Justus-Liebig-University Giessen) and a PhD in cultural studies (Dr. phil., Humboldt University Berlin). Her research, which is interdisciplinary in nature, focuses on the socially organised production, distribution, use and final disposal to the environment of food and food-related materials, the so-called social food metabolism. Accounting and analysis of different aspects of social (non-)use of food in different regional (e.g. national, urban) and sectoral settings (e.g. agricultural production, social catering) are among her main research areas, operationalised by quantitative and qualitative methods (material flow analysis, surveys, observations, etc.). Co-author of a UNEP report on consumer food waste, she is also an expert on French food waste policy.
