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Professor Sheryl L Hendriks
The Director of Natural Resources Institute
Professor Sheryl L Hendriks is Professor of Food Security and Director of the NRI. She previously held positions at the Universities of Pretoria, KwaZulu-Natal and Natal, South Africa. She is an internationally recognised transdisciplinary researcher focussing on food security. She has extensive experience in the design of policy frameworks, policy analysis and programme design. Her research focuses on food security policy analysis at the national and global levels. More recently her work has focussed on food systems analysis, including sustainable and healthy diets.
A full staff profile can be seen on the Natural Resources Institute website.
Research / Scholarly interests
Professor Hendriks research focusses on transdisciplinary solutions to our complex global challenges to influence the next iteration of the global development agenda. She is particularly interested in the tensions, trade-offs and opportunities determined by eight elements: 3 Cs (climate change, COVID and conflict) and 5Fs (food, fodder, fuel, fertiliser and finance) – each a crisis and yet interconnected. Also to understand the impact of these decisions and options on the future, especially how the impact of food system transformation processes and dietary shifts could have on climate change and planetary boundaries as well as on health, nutrition, affordability and inequality.