Montpellier, France, October 07th-09th 2026
2026-10-07 10:00:00
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Reynolds_Christian_EGEA 2023

REYNOLDS Christian

City, University of London, United Kingdom

  • Christian Reynolds is a Reader in Food Policy at the Centre for Food Policy, City University, London; and is the Senior Tutor for Research at the Centre for Food Policy.
  • Christian is recognised as a global expert on food loss and waste and sustainable diets and has worked on these issues in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, the UK, US, and Europe.
  • Christian is the lead editor of the Routledge Handbook of Food Waste (2019); he has also co-authored over 50 peer reviewed publications, as well as multiple reports and book chapters. Christian has given evidence to UK and NZ parliaments on FLW and contributed to the Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Reporting Standard. Christian also researches sustainable cookery; food history; and the political power of food in international relations.
  • Christian is the Principal Investigator of 1) the NERC Sustainable Plastics Packaging project: “Reducing plastic packaging and food waste through product innovation simulation.” This project has created a Household Simulation Model to focus on plastic food packaging to help manufactures provide the right type of packaging to reduce both food and plastic waste. This model is currently used by WRAP and industry to reduce food waste in many food products. 2) The Alpro Foundation funded project: “Communicating the environmental impact of plant-based recipes”. This project produces a tool that calculates the calories, the biodiversity, economic, and climate benefits of plant-based recipes.
  • From 2017 to 2020, Christian was employed WRAP as Technical Specialist in international food sustainability. In 2017-18 Christian worked on integrating healthy sustainable eating and food waste reduction messages on a wide variety of projects including the EU-LIFE funded TRiFOCAL project. From 2018-2020 Christian moved to the WRAP Global team, working on Food Waste and Sustainable Eating, working on the REFRESH project, and with multiple global partners including the World Bank, NRDC, and WWF. Christian Reynolds is a Reader in Food Policy at the Centre for Food Policy, City University, London; and is the Senior Tutor for Research at the Centre for Food Policy.

Recent publications:

  1. Madruga M, et al. Trends in food consumption according to the degree of food processing among the UK population over 11 years. British Journal of Nutrition, 2022:1–8.  
  2. Garg DH, et al.. Food systems governance should be preceded by food systems diplomacy. Nature Food, 2022;3(9):667–670.  
  3. Kandemir, C., et al. Using discrete event simulation to explore food wasted in the home. Journal of Simulation, 2022; 16(4):415–435.  
  4. Kluczkovski A, et al. An Environmental and Nutritional Evaluation of School Food Menus in Bahia, Brazil That Contribute to Local Public Policy to Promote Sustainability. Nutrients, 2022;14(7).  
  5. da Silva JT, et al. Greenhouse gas emissions, water footprint, and ecological footprint of food purchases according to their degree of processing in Brazilian metropolitan areas: a time-series study from 1987 to 2018. The Lancet Planetary Health, 2021; 5(11):e775-e785.