Our first announcement is that Laurence Guillaumie will take over from Geneviève Parent as director of Theme 5, “Food autonomy, prosperity and accessibility”. She will be assisted by current co-director Louis Sasseville.

Her expertise: She is particularly interested in promoting eco-citizenship, pro-environmental practices and environments that encourage access for all to sustainable food (i.e. local, eco-responsible and healthy) from a public health perspective. She also has expertise in the development and evaluation of programs promoting eco-citizenship, pro-environmental practices and sustainable food, notably using the Intervention Mapping and Behaviour Change Wheel approaches. In her work, she draws on theories and concepts from partnership and territorial research, ecological transition and behavioral, psychoanalytical and global health approaches.

Our second announcement is that Marie-Ève Gaboury-Bonhomme will take over from Véronique Provencher as director of theme 6, “Nutrition and Society”. Véronique Provencher becomes co-director of the theme.

Her expertise: her research, applied to the realities of agriculture and agri-food, is inspired by political science, agro-economics and sociology. She seeks to better understand the evolution of the objectives and operation of government interventions. She analyzes policies both in Quebec and elsewhere. She is interested in farm income support, the study of actors’ discourses and the integration of economic, environmental and social issues (sustainable development) into government action.

Our latest announcement is the appointment of Jean-Michel Lavoie as Chairholder Representative, replacing Marie-Claude Vohl.

His expertise: Industrial Research Chair in Biofuels and Bioproducts and Industrial Research Chair in Maple Syrup Technologies. His research interests include the isolation of residual forest and agricultural biomass components (biorefinery), the thermochemical conversion of hemicelluloses into biodiesel, the non-enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose and the conversion of lignin into biofuels and green chemicals.

Let’s congratulate them! The management of INAF warmly thanks the outgoing members for their significant involvement in the growth and influence of INAF.